With Sollers, the absolute isolated, André S. Labarthe approached as closely as possible “the most recognized and the most fought, the most solicited and the most secretly hated, the most turbulent and the most embarrassing, the most uncontrollable and therefore the most intolerable, in short,...
In the “Prefaces” series, Labarthe takes us to discover the Polish writer Bruno Schulz. André S. Labarthe presents some drawings and literary fragments and recreates with the help of photos and comments the historical, geographical and family context in which Bruno Schulz lived.
The camera scans the typography of a book while the voice launches into a first attempt at reading: "Chapter one... The Passage..."; The camera freezes on the word Polynesia. In an abandoned waiting room, an ageless man keeps coughing. He is waiting. The voice resumes its attempt to read, but is...
Bergala makes Erice wander about (DV in hand) between Madrid and Paris remembering those primeval scenes in his education as a filmmaker, retrieving places more alive than ever in his cinéphile memory. Paris-Madrid, allers-retours fuses genealogy & elegy, diving into the roots of Erice’s oeuvre.
An acerbic criticism of the media coverage of the Cannes Film Festival and of cinema, at the time of the death of the actress Rita Hayworth. Episode of the TV program "Cinéma, cinémas".
The space of the museum as the visitor travels through it is a long sentence of sleep. But if suddenly this sleep is interrupted, if this space is torn apart, if the hydrometric devices go haywire, then like a sleepwalker who is awakened at the edge of a roof, the object decomposes as everything...
1965. We ring the doorbell of the Beverley Hills house where a forgotten filmmaker seems to spend his time reminiscing. His name is Rouben Mamoulian. He hasn't been shooting for 5 years, but cinema has not ceased to inhabit him. Episode of the documentary TV series "Cinéastes de notre temps"
