Born in 1938 in Romania, Marin Karmitz graduated from IDHEC as an operator. He was first assistant director to Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda, Jacques Rozier… then in 1964 he directed his first short film. fiction film, Dark night Calcuttabased on a screenplay by Marguerite Duras, he then worked with Samuel Beckett on the adaptation of Comedythe film was selected the same year as the opening of the Venice Film Festival and caused a scandal for its avant-garde form. 40 years later he won an award at the Venice Biennale. His first feature film, Seven days elsewhere (1967) with Jacques Higelin is also selected at the Mostra.
In 1974, Marin Karmitz added to his structure, mk2 Productions created in 1967, a distribution structure. In 40 years he produced 108 films and distributed more than 350 in theaters: the Krzysztof Kieslowski trilogy, twelve films by Claude Chabrol, Godard, Resnais, Malle, the Taviani brothers, Angelopoulos, Pintilié, Van Sant, Nossiter, Kerrigan, Loach , Doillon, Lounguine, Kiarostami, Sang Soo, Haneke, Salles, Dolan…
A very fine list of awards crowned these productions: three Palmes d’Or in Cannes, three Golden Lions in Venice, a Golden Bear in Berlin, three Oscar nominations, twenty-five Césars…
Marin Karmitz also developed an activity as a cinema operator, leading a reflection on the role of the cinema in the city.
He presented his collection of photographs for the first time during the Rencontres d’Arles 2010, then La maison rouge foundation Antoine de Galbert hosted the exhibition Foreign Residentaround his collection in 2017 and finally Body to body – History(s) of photography will be held at the Center Pompidou in 2023.
News:
- 2024 marks 50 years since the creation of MK2 cinemas
- A book: Marin Karmitz: Another history of cinema by Antoine de Baecque at Flammarion
Director at the time of the New Wave, Marin Karmitz also wanted to introduce filmmakers from around the world. He himself was born elsewhere, in Romania at a time when it was not good to be Jewish there. From this childhood, he retained a certain melancholy which will follow him through his works, loves and questions. Antoine de Baecque offers here the biographical story, lively and ample, embodied and controversial of a true creator who reinvented cinema in France, with a greater place given to authors from around the world, creating with his own theaters where he shows films engaged, real interactivity with the viewer.
- A movie Remember the future! by Romain Goupil, released on October 23
Produced in the context of the exhibition Body to body – History(s) of photography, which was held at the Center Pompidou in 2023. Born from the meeting between Julie Jones, curator at the National Museum of Modern Art, and Marin Karmitz, filmmaker and collector, the photography exhibition Melee offered visitors to the Center Pompidou a private – public face to face hitherto unheard of. In Remember the future!filmmaker Romain Goupil captured this experience in which Julie Jones and Marin Karmitz explain their approach with passion. The film draws an intimate portrait of Marin Karmitz through his choice of photographs and offers a contemporary reflection on the importance of memory and transmission.
- Marin Karmitz will be the Honorary President of the cinema cycle of History meeting from October 9 to 13 in Blois
- A tribute will be paid to him with two exhibitions during the 16th Light Festival from October 12 to 20 in Lyon
Lecture :
[…] I set before you life and death, blessing and curse.
Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live.
Book of Deuteronomy, chap. 30
Programme musical :
JS Bach : Partita nº2 one out min BWV 826 for piano, Rondeaux
Glenn Gould, piano
Sony SM2K 52597/1
Interview with Georges ENESCU
INA Archive January 25, 1952
Georges Enescu : Airs in the Romanian genre: Moderato and Andante
Sherban Lupu, violin
Toccata TOCC 0047
Georges Enescu : Unirei time – for violin and piano
Sherban Lupu, violin
Ian Hobson, piano
Toccata TOCC 0047
W. A. Mozart : Don GiovanniAir de Don Ottavio, “From his peace”
Petre Munteanu, tenor
Unidentified orchestra and conductor
CD Preiser “Living Past”
Richard Strauss : Last four songs. III. “At bedtime” (En allant s’endormir)
Lisa Della Casa, soprano
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Karl Böhm, direction
1953
Decca 425959-2
Serge Prokofiev : Melodies on poems by Anna Akhmatova op 27: “The King with Gray Eyes”
Galina Vishnevskaya, soprano
Mstislav Rostropovitch, piano
Philips 446212-2
Dimitri Chostakovitch : Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor. IV. Allegretto
Trio Borodine
1984
Chandos 8342
Dimitri Chostakovitch : Symphony No. 10. IV. Andante – Allegro
USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Evgueni Svetlanov, direction
Icac 5036
John Adams : Nixon in ChinaAir de Pat Nixon : ” This is prophetic ! “
Dawn Upshaw, soprano
The Orchestra of St. Luke’s
David Zinman, direction
1998
Nonesuch / Warner 7559-79458-2
Sergueï Rachmaninov : Prelude n°5 op. 23
Nikolai Lugansky (piano)
2001
Erato / Warner 0190295869250/4
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