Jean-Paul Fargier
For the "Cinéma, de notre temps" collection, Jean-Paul Fargier sends his friend filmmaker Jean-Daniel Pollet a letter written to the second person.
This film enables us to understand the spiritual journey, the artistic quest and the technological experimentation of a pioneer of video art, Bill Viola, who has been described as a "sculptor of time".
He inhabits the world just like he inhabits his house: motionless. A serious accident nailed him there: in a house in the middle of a large garden. No longer can he dash around the world: day after day, he contemplates it from his house. He’s a filmmaker. He’s only ever lived to make movies.
Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet, an essayist, a philosopher, and a leader of American modernism. Known for documenting the cultural elite living in France, Man Ray spent much of his time fighting the formal constraints of the visual arts. Ray's life and art were always provocative, engaging, and challenging.
The story of the creation, disappearance and reappearance of one of the most mysterious paintings in Western art.
Humorous portrait of the great specialist of video art in France. From one of his lectures only the silences remain. It's up to us to imagine what he might have said about video art. Removing speeches on video to become video.
Radioscopy of Armand Robin who, during the Algerian war, listened to the false words of radio propaganda and hosted poetry programmes against the said propaganda.
Michel Piccoli reads the first pages of Victor Hugo's 'Promontoire du songe'. In this text, Hugo describes his sensations when he sees, enlarged 40 times, the Moon through the telescope of the Observatorium of Paris. His visions drive him into a meditation about the relationships in between dream, reality and poetry.
This bitter and ironic satire illustrates the universal problems with youth and their revolt against the bourgeois establishment. The man becomes a symbolic victim of what he is protesting and resigns himself to a gloomy future with bleak prospects for humankind. This directorial debut for Jean Pierre Lajournade was well received at the 1970 Mannheim Film Festival.
