 Herd In Iceland is part of PassengerFilms exciting evening of herding-themed films on Wednesday January 23 at the Roxy Bar and Screen, Borough High Street, London S.E.1 - see here. For more herding-related maps, see the films of 'cinetourist' Avalon Daggett, especially Herds West (1955) - online here, and featured in The Daily Map here:  Add Comment  Zig-Zag, like Rivette's Paris s'en va from the following year, is based on the 'jeu de l'oie'. Ruiz's film is subtitled 'a didactic fiction about cartography'. Taking inspiration and materials from a map-related exhibition at the Centre Pompidou ("Cartes et Figures de la Terre"), Ruiz shows many maps and map-like figures. The film ends with the injunction: 'To know more, visit the exhibition.'                       See here for the excellent analysis of spatial machinery in this film, at the site (e)space & fiction. For a discussion of Ruiz illustrated with several maps, see Jonathan Rosenbaum's 'Mapping the Territory of Raúl Ruiz' here. For a precious assemblage of links in memory of Ruiz, see Film Studies For Free, 'Double Vision', here. |
