{"product_id":"starting-places-a-conversation-with-robert-kramer-9783901644955","title":"Starting Places: A Conversation with Robert Kramer","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn summer 1997, French film critic and historian Bernard Eisenschitz met with Robert Kramer three times to speak in detail about Kramer's life and work, covering thirty years of filmmaking. The exchange between friends starts with his early, activist years and his involvement with the Newsreel Collective, considers essential films like \u003ci\u003eIce\u003c\/i\u003e (1969) and \u003ci\u003eMilestones\u003c\/i\u003e (1975), and traces Kramer's orientation towards Europe and relocation to France in the late 1970s. Going back and forth between Europe, the USA, Portugal, and Vietnam, Kramer was consistently able to work and make films like \u003ci\u003eDoc's Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e (1987), \u003ci\u003eRoute One\/USA \u003c\/i\u003e(1989), and \u003ci\u003eStarting Place\u003c\/i\u003e (1993). He passed away in 1999. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe conversation was published in French in 2001 as \u003ci\u003ePoints de d?part\u003c\/i\u003e. More than 20 years later, \u003ci\u003eStarting Places: A Conversation\u003c\/i\u003e with Robert Kramer makes this illuminating account of a \"mid-Atlantic\" filmmaker available in its original language for the first time. The book is complemented by three of Kramer's essays from the 1980s and 1990s and an updated bibliography and filmography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVolker Pantenburg (Author, Edited by, Foreword by) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Volker Pantenburg is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Zurich. His most recent book is \u003ci\u003eAggregatzustände bewegter Bilder\u003c\/i\u003e (2022). Book publications in English include \u003ci\u003eFarocki\/Godard: Film as Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), \u003ci\u003eCinematographic Objects: Things and Operations\u003c\/i\u003e (2015, Editor) and \u003ci\u003eScreen Dynamics: Mapping the Borders of Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (Co-Editor, 2012). In 2015, he co-founded the Harun Farocki Institut Berlin. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBernard Eisenschitz (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bernard Eisenschitz is a French film critic, subtitler and historian based in Paris. He was a critic at \u003ci\u003eCahiers du cin?ma\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLa Nouvelle Critique\u003c\/i\u003e, and edited the journal \u003ci\u003eCin?ma\u003c\/i\u003e between 2001 and 2007. His books include\u003ci\u003eNicholas Ray: An American Journey (1990), Le cin?ma allemand (1999), Fritz Lang au Travail (2011), Douglas Sirk, n? Detlef Sierck (2022), and Boris Vassilievitch Barnet (2024).\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoberto Turigliatto (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Roberto Turigliatto is former head of programming at the National Museum of Cinema in Turin and former director of Torino Film Festival. He collaborated with the Venice, Pesaro, Rotterdam and Locarno festivals and is co-director of the \u003ci\u003eFuori Orario\u003c\/i\u003e program (RAI 3). He has published major collective works on new cinemas and books on Philippe Garrel, Jerzy Skolimowski, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Manoel de Oliveira, Julio Bressane, and others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Austrian Film Museum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50894633730322,"sku":"9783901644955","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1932fd5f-cc6d-4668-8548-27dab60085b0.jpg?v=1738256155","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/starting-places-a-conversation-with-robert-kramer-9783901644955","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}