Courtesy of Estate of André Kertész, New York
Cinema
André Kertész: cinema from Budapest to New York
Series of screenings in the auditorium
From 28 September 2010 to 06 February 2011
Jeu de Paume – Paris
> Programme 1
Selection of archive films that illustrate life in the three cities where Kertész lived: Budapest of the 1920s, showing a tour of the city by camera-carrying tourists (Post Travel Pictures, 1927; Kalabaka, 1927); Paris, with a report on traffic problems in 1929 (Aperçu rétrospectif 1909-1929, 1929); and New York, through the arrival of the ocean liner Normandie (Paris-New York by Jean Vivié, 1938), or with scenes in the subway and the streets (Portrait of the South Bronx, 1938; Third Avenue nel El Torn Down, 1939).
In collaboration with Lobster Films
> Programme 2
Screening of the documentary André dans les villes : Budapest-Paris-New York, by Teri Wehn-Damisch (France, 1986, 52’). André Kertész has been living in New York for sixty years. At the end of his life, the photographer has a sudden desire to return to the places that inspired his work: Budapest and above all Paris, where he had photographed his Distortions.
> Daily from 28 September 2010 to 6 February 2011 at 1pm (except 26 Nov. 2010 and 18, 28 and 29 Jan. 2011).