SERIE DE PORTRAITS

SERIES OF PORTRAITS - The regular and relatively assiduous attendance, at a certain time, to so called experimental screenings, organized by the various structures in Paris (except CINEDOC FILMCOOP for which I only went to two screenings in all and without my camera, and also they never wanted to take my films, as well as L'ABOMINABLE for other reasons, because this series is prior to the time where the ten monthly screenings were held at CINE 104 of Pantin and that L'ABOMINABLE, which is yet a consequent association of the so called experimental scene in Paris, never held regular screenings before...) led me inexorably and instinctively to keep a kind of film diary or rather a testimony in the form of collective or group portraits of the spectators, aficionados and other devotees or simple passers-by to these regular screenings in Paris, and this over several years... One comes across a few figures of legend (without irony on my part, although the term is pompous), not to quote their names, but then you will discover them by yourself by watching these portraits, unknowns of course, and the usual habitués which one finds in several episodes of this series... The strongly marked granulous texture, on account of a hazardous and risky processing in ETNA (less serious than L'ABOMINABLE and less qualified too!) agrees completely with the spindrift of nostalgia which emanates from past times and melancholy as a guiding wire of my filmography (half of which is deposited with LIGHT CONE and the other half with CJC). This being said many scenes of conviviality, bar discussions and sometimes festive dance run across this ensemble apparently split into six opus, like six chapels visited by their flocks hallowing the temples of an art new and at the same time very old... It is yours to discover if you will have the courage to watch the six episodes in continuity, the recurring people which circulate a little everywhere, without apparent obedience to such or such clan, or community...

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