Synopsis
Movie about the Jean-Marie Straub's film practice.
In a cinema, every week, we screen movies which a woman and a man made. The man, Jean-Marie Straub, was there, at almost all the sessions. Us too. We where there. And there, in a dark room: our eyes where opened.
This movie problematic the complex relationship which exists between the movies themselves and a possible word about them. The question amounts to these words: is it possible to speak about movies without betraying the event which took place for the public, during the reception of the images and the sounds? This question, Jean-Marie Straub asked himself every evening.
In spite of the documentary character of the situation, the movie tells the story of a double meeting, two moments which remain inflexible one to another and which nevertheless existed in the same place: the meeting of a glance with movies and that of a public with words.
Credits
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Aapm
Full credits (5)
- Director of Photography : Minh Sourintha
- Editors : Rudolf Di Stéfano, Sol Suffern-Quirno
- Sound Recordist : Martin De Torcy
- Sound editors : Rudolf Di Stéfano, Sol Suffern-Quirno
- Sound Mixer : Emmanuel Soland
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Portrait, Research - Experimental
- Themes : Cinema
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2009
- Runtime : 54 min
- Visa number : 125.454
- Visa issue date : 06/04/2010
- Production formats : Mini DV
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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