Olivier Debroise, 1952 - 2008.

At e-flux, Cuauhtémoc Medina remembers Mexican critic, curator, novelist and activist Olivier Debroise, who died on May 7, by presenting "an incredible, though incomplete, list of the roles he played, shots he fired, and crossfire in which he was caught."

On that list: "The experimental filmmaker who, having worked on Jodorowsky's La Montaña Sagrada, absorbed the actoral improvisation of Claude Lelouch and the intellectual poetics of Godard and Pasolini, and succeeded in producing one of the most audacious feature-length experimental films ever: Un Banquete en Tetlapayac (A Banquet in Tetlapayac, 1997-1998), a re-interpretation and tableau vivant that addresses the paradoxes of Mexicanism, communism and homosexuality within Sergei Eisenstein's ¡Qué viva México! (1931-2)."

Posted by dwhudson at May 13, 2008 7:43 AM