The Zanzibar Group: Jackie Raynal

Director: Jackie Raynal

1968 / 70min / DCP

Deux Fois, 1968, 70 mins

“Tonight will be the end of all meaning. Ladies and gentlemen: Good evening.” Before she came to New York and opened the legendary Bleecker Street Cinema, and after she edited for Éric Rohmer and Jean Eustache, Jackie Raynal made—and stars in—the wildly inventive experimental feature Deux Fois (1968). A pared-back, enigmatic meditation on the end of cinema, it’s the centerpiece film of the Zanzibar Group, a group of young artists and filmmakers making underground films, full of the energy and apathy of May ’68. Raynal "put in her film the visionary crazed coldness of major paranoiacs. We also find the murderous, painful madness of Fritz Lang's great films, in which all the fiction is reduced to sketchy outlines, arabesques, leaving almost no trace." —Serge Daney

Introduction from curators Boris Bergmann and Armance Léger on Sunday, September 15th