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August 6, 2003
Sei Shonagon
I'm working on an article on Chris Marker's Sans Soleil (probably my "favorite" film, for reasons I can't quite explain), and it occurred to me that Marker's film is thematically linked to Greenaway's Pillow Book through the figure of Sei Shonagon.
Greenaway's film is loosely based on her eleventh century text, The Pillow Book, while Marker uses Sei Shonigon's book as a recurrent motif for thinking about his cinematic meditation on/construction of everyday life. I haven't seen the Greenaway film in a long time (maybe since 1996, when I thought about writing a paper on it), but there seems to be an important connection to be made here.
Posted by chuck at August 6, 2003 2:17 PM
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