Commissioned by the Centre d’animation culturelle of Montbéliard, Armand Gatti observed the town of the Peugeot factories where France’s second largest workforce was concentrated and almost 10,000 immigrants of different origins.
Documentary made by the autodidact film maker, Renaud Victor, with autistic children from Deligny’s network in Cevennes, south of France.
Commissioned by the Centre d’animation culturelle of Montbéliard, Armand Gatti observed the town of the Peugeot factories where France’s second largest workforce was concentrated and almost 10,000 immigrants of different origins.
« À bord d’une bagnole qu’il faut descendre dans le Sud de la France, quatre types se retrouvent coincés ensemble. Tandis que les deux premiers sont propres sur eux et voudraient bien « y » arriver, les deux autres sont légèrement relous, un peu largués, sacrément gouailleurs.
“Nicolas Roeg’s The man who Fell to Earth presents an alien (David Bowie) whose knowledge and experience of our world is entirely mediated by television.
“I only see the underside of the fabric I am weaving.”
From Léone, a poem by Jean Cocteau quoted in the film
“[Kimiavi] employed an authorial, surrealist, and avant-gardist style consisting of real people enacting either their own lives or fictionalized versions thereof; the seamless mixing of fantasy and documentary; ironic, humorous, contrastive, and critical juxtapositions of worlds, elements, and s
A short film in which a director's voice appears to be directing all the action on a busy London street.
“For me, this film reveals a new cinematographic language. As far as I know, a director has never committed, with such obstinacy, to the cinematographic representation of a region: that is to say, to the difficult communion between men, landscapes, and the seasons.
« En 1968. pour la frange la plus radicalisée – la plus gauchiste – des cinéastes, une chose est sûre : il faut apprendre à sortir de la salle de cinéma (de la cinéphilie, de l'obscurantisme) ou la brancher au moins sur quelque chose d'autre. Et pour apprendre, il faut aller à l'école.