The Film Comment Letter: Always Happening ♾️

November 08, 2024 The Film Comment Letter: Always Happening ♾️ View in browser   |   filmcomment.com November 8, 2024 WEBSITE   |   PODCAST   |   LATEST Dear Readers, Today's Letter explores a question central to cinema, a medium concerned with time: how do we tell stories of events that have no clear beginning or end? How can the moving image relay experiences that cannot be packaged into neat arcs, but which are always, to borrow the title of a celebrated memoir by Annie Ernaux, happening ?  Ernaux's work is a reference point in our opening essay, a beautiful reflection by scholar and filmmaker Ayanna Dozier on how women artists use cinema's capacity to "return to—and even reframe—painful events through filmic dramatization" in order to take charge of memories and experiences that can otherwise seem lost to time. Her piece weaves together her own experiences of reproductive health, relationships, and moviemaking with her inspired thoughts o read