✍️🎥 In Sketching on Screen, Christian Keathly discusses how both the French New Wave and the Italian Neo-Realism film movements take a “sketched” approach, capturing the little moments that mean more because they aren’t staged.

Keathly argues for the importance of filmmaking that occupies a different register from the blockbuster, films whose lack of polish allow you to better appreciate the grain. 🔗 Read now via the link in @artpapers bio This text is a part of Focus on Art and Film, an archival spotlight on Sept. / Oct. 1998, which explores the rich exchange between art and film 📖🎞️ Browse the other texts from the issue, along with other archival texts and web-exclusives on ARTPAPERS.org . . . Top: Film still from Summer / The Green Ray (1986). Image source IMBD Bottom: Georges Seurat, Oil Sketch for “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884”, 1884. Image courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago