Jun 16: Georges Perec -- Les lieux d'une fugue

From the excellent Celluloid Wickerman blog.

A film made by Georges Perec who I featured in my GA Presidential lecture, and other writing that I have completed around the theme of Quotidian Geographies.

Perec was an author, critic and much besides.

The text was translated as The Scene of a Flight quite recently in the Penguin volume of Species of Space and Other Pieces but, most intriguingly, the text appears in a film that Perec made in 1978 only a few years before he died. This forty minute film version contains the majority of the text and finds Perec behind the camera, something he was clearly itching to do at this point. That same year he was filmed by a Television crew stating such a desire while on set for Alain Corneau’s Série Noire, the speed and money admittedly also playing into his growing love for working in films as opposed to simply novels (he had, after all, just finished work on the huge Life: A User’s Manual).