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The Life and Death of Statues - Dilettante Army

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In 1953, the 30-minute short Les statues meurent aussi, or Statues Also Die, was banned by the French censor. The film was a documentary collaboration between Alain Resnais, future filmmaker of the antifascist Holocaust documentary Nuit et bruillard, or Night and Fog (1955) as well as antiwar narrative features such as Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and La guerre est finie (The War is Over, 1965), alongside co-director Chris Marker—publisher and contributor to the Petite Planètes photo travelogues, then just dipping his toes into the art of cinema, and now known as one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of the more communist and literary “left bank” of the French New Wave. The film was finally released in 1961 in a truncated version which cut the most incisive critiques of colonization found in the last 10 minutes of the film. It was only screened in full fifteen years after the film’s completion, and after May 1968. French communist circles united in fervent protest against the film’s banni

The Life and Death of Statues - Dilettante Army Issues Contributors About Newsletter Shop Fall 2025 Ekphrasis With Letter from the Editors Kate Nesin Emily Singeisen Andrew McInnes Julia Alekseyeva Lauren Camp Krushna Dande Louis Shankar Robby Bishop Bruce M. King Kenji Nakayama The Life and Death of Statues Julia Alekseyeva In 1953, the 30-minute short Les statues meurent aussi, or Statues Also Die, was banned by the French censor. The film was a documentary collaboration between Alain Resnais, future filmmaker of the antifascist Holocaust documentary Nuit et bruillard, or Night and Fog (1955

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