Le chant du styrene / réalisation, Alain Resnais.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014, film director.

Films de la Pléiade (Firm), production company.

Icarus Films, film distributor.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Polystyrene.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Nonfiction films.

Feature films.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (14 min.) : digital, sound, color

Distribution:

[Brooklyn, New York] : Icarus Films

Other Title:

Song of styrene

Place of Publication:

[Paris, France] : Films de la Pléiade, [1957]

Language Note:

In French with English subtitles.

System Details:

System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The Song of Styrene is the perfect example of how to turn a commissioned industrial film into a lyrical, satirical film masterpiece. When the young Alain Resnais was asked by the Péchiney plastics giant to make a short documentary on polystyrene, "that noble, entirely man-made matter," Resnais sensed a rapport between Alexandrine verse and CinemaScope. With text by Raymond Queneau and music by Pierre Barbaud, The Song of Styrene is a beautiful, surrealist film.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed April 28, 2022).

Publisher Number:

if-sty Docuseek2

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.