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  • Comédie (1966)
  • Short | 20 min | Short
Comédie (1966)
Short | 20 min | Short
A 22-minute black-and-white short film directed in 1964 by playwright Samuel Beckett and filmmaker Marin Karmitz, Comedy is an experimental film that is an adaptation of Beckett's 1963 play of the same name. Using a vaudeville scenario as ...See moreA 22-minute black-and-white short film directed in 1964 by playwright Samuel Beckett and filmmaker Marin Karmitz, Comedy is an experimental film that is an adaptation of Beckett's 1963 play of the same name. Using a vaudeville scenario as a pretext, the film explores the potential of light and sound, in particular drawing on the research of Pierre Schaeffer, who is known as the father of concrete music. In the film Comedy directed by Samuel Beckett and Marin Karmitz, the heads of three characters, played by Delphine Seyrig, Elonor Hirt and Michael Londsdale, made unrecognizable by heavy makeup, come out of three jars. Successively lit, they interpret fragments of Beckett's play, the editing, the rhythm and the sound plunging us frantically into a return to nothingness, with the only appearance of these three talking heads. The film Comédie by Samuel Beckett and Marin Karmitz, kept in the Pinault Collection, was presented in 2008-2009 during the exhibition "Un Certain Etat du Monde?" at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow. Written by Pinault Collection See less
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Directors
Samuel Beckett (co-director) | Marin Karmitz (co-director) | Jean Ravel (co-director) | Jean-Marie Serreau (co-director)
Writer
Samuel Beckett (play)
Cinematographer
Pierre Lhomme
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Updated Aug 31, 1966
Release date
Aug 1966 (Italy)
Awards
1 nomination

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Eléonore Hirt's primary photo
Eléonore Hirt
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Michael Lonsdale
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Delphine Seyrig
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