Angles of Motion

I was led to Denise Bellon's work through a documentary by her daughter, Yannick Bellon, and Chris Marker, the experimental French filmmaker. Called Remembrance of Things To Come, it is a fascinating film-essay filled with Bellon's still photographs. Rather than chronicling her life or documenting her "subjects" year by year, the film evokes a mixture of memory, art, and affection through narration and the juxtaposition of images, even sometimes superimposed on one another.

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