Cinema
Impatience
Charles Dekeukeleire · 1928
Synopsis
Without a story, the film sets four elements in play as so many characters: a motorbike that races out of control, the woman who rides it, the roads of a mountain landscape and a series of abstract cubes. The editing fragments their images and alternates them: the machine at speed, the motorcyclist's expressions, nudity, landscapes, forms. The eye of the camera is undone to the very end, for more than half an hour.
Context
The film, from 1928, is the second of its author's three experimental films, of which he was producer, cameraman and editor all at once; Yonnie Selma is the motorcyclist. It comes between a boxing film and a crime film. The Vintagent sees in it the first film to eroticise a motorcycle, and notes its kinship with The Girl on a Motorcycle by Jack Cardiff, forty years later.
Who it is for
A silent medium-length film of thirty-six minutes, without narrative, which is watched as a sequence of visual rhythms.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as its author's masterpiece; the first film, according to a historian of the motorcycle, to make it an erotic object.
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