Studio 2666 Lecture Series. A Passage: Written On The Wind

Join us for an interaction with Professor Jean Mathee

Passeur: a person who helps to cross a river with a small boat and, by extension, a person who helps to go clandestinely through a border or a “no-trespassing” area. There is also the idea of passing something to someone. Daney explained the term in an interview when asked how he would define himself: “I like this small word: passeur. I remember a fantastic article by Jean-Louis Comolli about Eric Dolphy entitled 'the passeur'. (…) The passeurs are strange: they need borders but only to challenge them. They don't want to be alone with their treasures and at the same time, they don't really care about those to whom they pass something. And since 'feelings are always reciprocal', we don't really care about them either, we don't pass anything to them and we often empty their pockets”. Devant la recrudescence des vols de sacs à main, 1997. sensesofcinema.com

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Studio 2666 | East City Cape Town | 19h00 Friday 19th October 2007