Après tout, pourquoi le cinéma ? A cause du flou ? Le bougé, les cadrages, les personnages suivis et épiés dans leur dos ? Ce sentiment est décidément trop simple, trop évident : mouvement saisi, immobilisation momentanée, suspens, tension du redémarrage du geste, reprise empêchée de l’emportement des corps gelés par la prise. Mais en quoi ces images depuis une quarantaine d’années – floues en effet, brossées, rayées, empoussiérées par le tremblé – renvoient-elles au cinéma ? Car le cinéma est-ce du flou, du tremblé, du rayé ? Toute sa pratique est tendue vers le net, le fixe, le lisse. Ce sont les obsessions des opérateurs de films. Ou alors, il s’agit dans le cas contraire, de méprisables films expérimentaux. Mais ces derniers, en général, les photographes les méconnaissent, et paradoxalement, les cinéastes expérimentaux rêvent parfois de photographie quand ils se livrent à leurs excès formalistes. Dominique Païni
Released
15/01/2002
Collection
Hors Collection
Format
150 x 210
Broché
32 photographies en bichromie
68 pages
ISBN : 978-2-914381-15-4
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Bernard Plossu

Photographe

Plossu Bernard, born in South Vietnam in 1945, he grew up surrounded by photographs of the desert taken by his father when he went skiing on the dunes of the Sahara in 1937 with Roger Frisian-Roche. Modesty, sensuality, emotion, joy, here is what is the “sap” that already permeate the images of the self that landed in Mexico in 1965 and 1967 to join his grandparents. Travel as a Mexican issue 15 years later its editor Claude Nori. A book that, as the creator of Ed. Contrejour has become a sort of bible for a generation suddenly uninhibited by his freedom of tone and its intimate and poetic vision.

Dominique Païni

Auteur, Commissaire

Director of the Cinémathèque française from 1991 to 2000, and since then responsible for the multidisciplinary projects of the Center Georges Pompidou. Defends the cinema of authors like: Jean-Marie Straub, Michael Snow as well as Rossellini or Godard, it reaffirms that the invention of the cinema is a matter of author and artist. He affirms, more firmly than in his previous book, Le cinéma, a modern art, an approach to cinema based on figurative motives (idle, sculpted, frozen …), draws a first assessment of the experience of his Exhibition Hitchcock and art, and comments on contemporary attempts to move the cinema from its traditional site, from the room to the museum’s rails.