Part One
Screening: Éric Baudelaire, The Glove and Un Film Dramatique

e-flux Screening Room presents Éric Baudelaire’s short The Glove (2020, 8 minutes) and feature-length Un Film Dramatique (2019, 114 minutes), followed by a conversation between Baudelaire and film writer and programmer Dennis Lim.

The screening and conversation comprise the opening event of Éric Baudelaire: To Do With, a four-day program taking place December 2-5 at e-flux Screening Room, 172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn. The program will present a selection of films and films-in-progress by Éric Baudelaire, in dialogue with works by Chantal Akerman and Naeem Mohaiemen, and followed by conversations with special guests Omar Berrada, Stuart Comer, Dennis Lim, Naeem Mohaiemen, Paige Sarlin, and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie.
 

Éric Baudelaire, The Glove
2020
8 minutes

A confined rubber glove escapes out to the world in a time of pandemic. Its wandering through half-empty streets is set to an original musical score improvised by Alvin Curran. 

Éric Baudelaire, Un Film Dramatique
2019
114 minutes

What are we doing together? A recurring question for the students of the film group at Dora Maar middle school, and for Éric Baudelaire who worked with them throughout their four years there, starting in the sixth grade. Answering this political question—one that involves representations of power, social violence, and identity—led them to seek a cinematic form that does justice to the uniqueness of each student, but also to the substance of their group. What are we doing together, if it is neither documentary nor fiction? A dramatic film, perhaps, where time does its work on the students’ bodies and discourse, where we discover the possibility for each to speak in their own name by filming for others, and to become co-authors of the film and subjects of their own lives.