RAGTAG
dir. Giuseppe Boccassini, 2022
Germany, France, Italy, 84min
In English.

SATURDAY JULY 22 – 7:30PM + Q&A
THURSDAY JULY 27 – 7:30PM +Q&A

“An atlas of film gestures and Pathosformel: the montage – better the disassembly – isolates moments from the narrative and separates bodies from events, opening up to the unthinkable and the invisible of film noir. Ragtag, thus, becomes an immense archive of the imaginary that, far from being sequential and historical, becomes intensive and organic: a film-experience beyond film as such.” – Federico Rossin, film historian.

RAGTAG is an expressionistic assemblage film following a chronological timeline mined from what French critics notoriously coined, film noir. The decoupage-based film accounts for 310 noir films, spanning from the early 1940s to the late 1950s while also including some foreign-made pictures that share an affinity with the genre. Boccassini’s experiment is as musical as it is daring and is carefully assembled & labored on in a pulsing yet innovative way attuned to the delicateness of gestures with a focus on extreme close-ups and the daring conceit of difference and repetition, recontextualizing the genre’s most memorable moments which enables a new way of seeing and experiencing.