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Introduction
Giò Abate
Gilbert Adair
Alvaro Arroba
Helen Bandis
Cyril Béghin
Janet Bergstrom
Yvette Bíró
Bertrand Bonello
Fabien Boully
Nicole Brenez
Rex Butler
Peggy Chiao
Jean-Pierre Coursodon
Stéphane Delorme
Stephen Dwoskin
Michael Eaton
David Ehrenstein
Thomas Elsaesser
Chris Fujiwara
Ruy Gardnier
Roger Garcia
Charlotte Garson
John Gianvito
Augustin Gimel
Philippe Grandrieux
Eugène Green
Paul Hammond
Peter Harcourt
Shigehiko Hasumi
Kent Jones
Bill Krohn
Miguel Marias
Adrian Martin
Fermin Martínez
David Matarasso
Grant McDonald
Meaghan Morris
V F Perkins
Douglas Pye
Mark Rappaport
Jackie Raynal
Jonathan Rosenbaum
William D. Routt
Jayce Salloum
Clemente Sobourin
François Thomas
Jean-Baptiste Thoret
Peter Tscherkassky
Johanna Vaude
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Manuel Yáñez
Andrei Zelitsky

 

 

 


 

The image I'm showing you comes from the film I'm shooting now. It's about my own family, un film de famille. It's a photo of a man (my uncle, Louis - Louisou) feeding his wild bulls in Camargue, where I was born and raised until I was fourteen. It's a metaphoric image for me, an image that symbolises the taste for freedom - since my uncle was not interested in raising his bulls for bullfighting. Actually, he loved to see his bulls running wild and free in the garrigue like they were supposed to be. My uncle's gesture shows how gentle he was with wild animals. It proves to me how you can tame the wild and the unknown by being soft, patient and gentle. For my new film, I'm working around several 'found images' like this one. It's a film about/around the memories of my family, about my father, a Resistance fighter and a committed communist; also about the freedom of my mother who didn't want to be married even though she was pregnant ... The film will include interviews of still-living witnesses who knew my parents. It's shot in digital and Super 8 mm (the beautiful pastel color of old Super 8 stock!!).