In the Environs of a Film by Danielle Collobert and translated by Nathanaël

This is poetry from France.

In the Environs of a Film by Danielle Collobert translated by Nathanaël is published by Litmus Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933959436E12.

In the Environs of a Film, by Danielle Collobert and translated by Nathanaël, suggests a book circling cinema without simply becoming cinematic. Environs are the areas around something: margins, approaches, atmospheres, the space before and after the frame. Collobert’s French writing is often stark, politically haunted, and formally restless, and Nathanaël is a translator well suited to her severity and fracture. I would read this book for its attention to the image as an unstable event. What happens near a film, around a film, outside its authority? The title makes me think of bodies caught in light, speech interrupted by frame, and the strange afterlife of scenes that refuse to end.

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