Liberté provisoire takes from everyday life, transforming the ordinary into a sensory delight. Walks in the Belleville district, Ménilmontant, leading to Père Lachaise cemetery, to the tombs of Piaf and Sarapo.
One of my last films to be made indoors was La vie brève de la flamme. I used light in a very expressionist manner — still with the technique of a very active camera. (T.H.)
Diary-films, portraits of visitors. Visiteurs is the result of great editing work, while Portrait de Gaël was made in two times, two places, without editing, improvising with the camera.
The construction of the film outlines the successive steps of a path that, as we move forward, reveals the different stages of its presentation: the moon, the rose, the child, the candle and the skull are linked in a unique picture that gives its internal meaning. Elements connected by the route of...
