Mr. Edouard d'Araille, the director of Living Time Films Ltd. and the person who put on the Robbe-Grillet Film Festival and Conference in England in 1996, was nice enough to send me information about the availability of proceedings for the conference as well as a film documentary about Robbe-Grillet. He sent me this information back in 9/97 and I haven't gotten around to writing this until 2/98--sorry for the delay.
I scanned in the information he provided and then hand-corrected the OCR output. There may still be some mistakes. I have no other information, including price and what formats the documenatary is available in. If you are interested, please contact Mr. d'Araille at the following address:
The Writer on the Screen OPENING WORDS: by Ian Christie, Member of the British Academy 1 L'ECRIVAIN A L'ECRAN (The Writer on the Screen) by Alain Robbe-Grillet 2 QUESTION-TIME: In Dialogue with Alain Robbe-Grillet 11 MAGRITTE, ROBBE-GRILLET, AND "LA BELLE CAPTIVE": SPECULAR PLEASURES by Ben Stoltzfus, Professor Emeritus 13 (University of California, Riverside) A SOJOURN IN THE MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS by Professor Roch C. Smith 20 (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) TEXT, FILM ET CODE: DYSNARRATION ET COHERENCE (Text, Film and Code: Disnarration and Coherence) by Professor Pierre Van den Heuvel 28 (Universite de Nimegue, Holland) DREAM-NARRATIVE IN "THE BLUE VILLA" by Professor Anthony Fragola 38 (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) SADO-EROTIC SURFACES: THE "REAL" AND THE "REPRESENTED" IN ROBBE-GRILLET'S NOUVELLES AUTOBIOGRAPHIES by Professor Raylene Ramsay 47 (University of Auckland, New Zealand) THE MIRROR OF META-FICTION: ROBBE-GRILLET AS THE WRITERLY READER OF TRANS-EUROPE-EXPRESS by Professor Royal S. Brown 57 (Queen's College, University of New York) OPEN DISCUSSION: Ben Stoltzfus, Roch C SHuth, Pierre Van den Heuvel, Anthony Fragola, Raylene Ramsay and Royal S. Brown 65 APPENDIX A: BIBLIOGRAPHY of works by Alain Robbe-Grillet 75 APPENDIX B: FILMOGRAPHY of works by Alain Robbe-Grillet 77
Living Time In the Temple of Dreams Project Description: Living Time's first film production is an investigation into the relationship between writing and film-making through a study of the life and work of French Novelist and Film-maker Alain Robbe-Grillet. How is the way we express ourselves visually related to how we express ourselves verbally? What is the relationship between the Nouveau Roman and Nouvelle Vague? What can the image do that the word cannot, and vice versa? The documentary includes interviews with Robbe-Grillet and the key authorities on his work, coverage of his visit to England last Autumn, clips from all his films and extracts from his writings. Within the framework of the central investigation into the relationship between writing and film-making an examination is made of twelve themes in his work: Time, Space, The Text, The Image, Woman, Immortality, Order, Chance, The Double, Dreams, Games and The Labyrinth. Production: Living Time Films Ltd., Nomad Films Producer: Edouard d'Araille Director: Edouard d'Araille Line Producer: Ben Spencer Screenplay: Edouard d'Araille Research: Professor Roch Smith, Professor Anthony Fragola, Edouard d'Araille Camera: James Cronin, Edouard d'Araille Lighting: Matthew Moore, Jeremy Hancock Sound: Greg Chapman, James Cronin Music: Selected Artists Editing: Edouard d'Araille, James Cronin Interviewees: Alain Robbe-Grillet Professor Royal S. Brown (Queen's College, New York) Professor Anthony Fragola (University of North Carolina Greensboro) Professor Raylene Ramsay (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Professor Roch C. Smith (University of North Carolina, Greensboro) Professor Ben Stoltzfus (University of California, Riverside) Professor Pierre Van den Heuvel (Universit6 de Nim6gue, Holland) Shooting Formats: Hi-8, Digital Vldeo, Super-8 Shooting Schedule: September-October 1996, February-March 1997 Editing Format: Digital Video Editing Schedule: April-August 1997 Locations: London, Oxford, Nurnberg, Marianske Lazne (Marienbad) Original Version: English (Includes French wlth English Sub-titles) Running Time: 90 minutes Release Date: November 1997 Distribution: Living Time Films Ltd.