Olivier Assayas is best known as a filmmaker, yet cinema makes
only a late appearance in this volume. "A Post-May Adolescence" is
an account of a personal formation, an initiation into an
individual vision of the world. It is, equally, a record of
youthful struggle. Assayas' reflective memoir takes the reader from
the massive cultural upheaval of France in May 1968 to the
mid-1990s, when the artist made his first autobiographical film
about his teenage years, "L'Eau froide." The movement of thought
and creation known as Situationism is the golden thread that
connects and, in part, inspires his memoir. This book also includes
two essays by Assayas on the aesthetic and political legacy of Guy
Debord, who played a decisive role in shaping the author's
understanding of the world and his path towards an extremely
personal way of making films. "A Post-May Adolescence" was first
published in French in 2005. Its expanded English edition makes a
valuable companion to the first English-language monograph on
Assayas' body of work, "Olivier Assayas," edited by Kent Jones,
also published by the Austrian Film Museum.
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