FROM 31.10 TO 15.12.2019
EXHIBITION MADE IN HOMAGE TO EASY RIDER (1969 - 2019), A FILM THAT REVOLUTIONIZED THE PRACTICE OF CINEMA IN THE UNITED STATES, THUS OPENING THE PERIOD CALLED "NEW HOLLYWOOD" BY CRITICS.
In partnership with the Dennis Hopper Institute, Los Angeles and the Swiss Film Library, Lausanne.
To conclude this American year, the foundation is presenting from November to December 2019 an exhibition dedicated to Dennis Hopper and his cult film Easy Rider, which this year we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of its release. This exhibition is an opportunity to look back at this prosperous period (late 1960s) that gave rise to the "New Hollywood" movement, during which filmmakers broke up the studio system that had become obsolete in the face of societal changes in the United States and the world.
Indeed, at the end of the 1950s, cinema attendance fell, television entered most American homes and studios that were struggling to renew themselves were on the verge of bankruptcy. While in Europe cinema quickly found a new lease of life with post-war movements such as Neo-realism in Italy and the New Wave in France, American cinema had to wait until the late 1960s to make its revolution on the fringes of social movements, political demands and against the backdrop of war in Vietnam.
Easy Rider by Dennis Hopper, the first real Road Movie, symbolizes this revolution on its own: low budget, non-compliance with the classic rules of the script, innovative editing, presence of violent and sexual scenes, immorality. This film opens with a decade of great freedom of style and tone in Hollywood and allowed some great filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola or Michael Cimino to emerge.