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- Title
Ten Minutes for John Lennon.
- Authors
O‘Rawe, Des
- Abstract
This essay interweaves an analysis of Raymond Depardon's short documentary film, 10 minutes de silence pour John Lennon (1980), with some broader reflections on time, cultural history, and silence. Shot in a single take, the film records the expressions, movements, and reactions of some of 200,000 mourners who gathered in Central Park to commemorate Lennon's life six days after his death in December, 1980. Despite its observational form and aesthetic reticence, 10 minutes de silence renders unexpected coincidences of colour, perspective, gesture, and noise, spontaneous formations and patterns that resonate beyond the film's actual moment and journalistic raison d‘être.
- Subjects
DEPARDON, Raymond; DOCUMENTARY films; LENNON, John, 1940-1980; CULTURAL history; MOTION pictures
- Publication
Film Studies, 2006, Vol 9, Issue 0, p64
- ISSN
1469-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7227/FS.9.9