Daniel Pommereulle
Nacimiento : 1937-04-15, Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Muerte : 2003-12-30
Historia
Daniel Pommereulle passed away in December 2003, leaving a very diverse and complexe but also peculiar and premonitory work. According to Alain Jouffroy's phrase, he was associated to the "Objectors" (les "Objecteurs"). Despite some important exhibitions (Fin de siècle presented in 1975 at National Center for Contemporary Art - Georges Pompidou, or the retrospective exhibitions at the Dole and Belfort museums in 1991) and a growing aura, this work, certainly one of the most importants of the second half of the 20th century in France, remains unknown and secret. From the 1980's to the 1990's he concentrates on the transparency theme with layouts of glass, paper and steel. As an actor, he started with Eric Rohmer's La Collectionneuse in 1967 and played in a dozen of movies, among which François Truffau's La mariée était en noir ( The Bride Wore Black), Jean-Luc Godard's Week-End and Les Idoles by Marc'O are noteworthy. In 1972, he takes part in La Cicatrice Intérieure (The Inner Scar) by Philippe Garrel whom he'll join again 27 years later for Le Vent de la nuit(Night Wind).As a film director One More Time (1967) and Vite(Fast, 1969) are the most noticeable movies for which he successively created a suicide machine and shot sequences through a telephoto lens or a telescope, leading to an apology of the desert and the planet Saturn.
L'éditeur
Una tarde, Fanette se encuentra con Bernard, un antiguo compañero de estudios. Durante la conversación, se nombra a Philippe, el primer amor de Fanette. El recuerdo de Philippe la lleva una vez más a la sala de cine donde proyectan "An affair to remember": Cary Grant y Deborah Kerr se reencuentran finalmente, tras haberse citado en lo alto del Empire State y nunca haberse producido dicho encuentro. Fanette está escribiendo un libro sobre el pintor François Arnal y tiene que ir a Nueva York para fotografiar dos cuadros suyos. Antes de su viaje, recibe una carta en la que se fija una cita en lo alto del Empire State. Cuando llega a Nueva York conoce a Matt, un americano encantador que se siente atraído por ella, pero Fanette, obsesionada por la cita, ni siquiera repara en él.
Jean le sculpteur
A housewife's affair with a younger man goes nowhere.
N°2023
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Sheperd
A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.
Italia, década de los setenta. Una joven periodista de televisión que se declara pacifista, se enamora de un chico que pertenece a un grupo extremista. El joven recibe la misión de cometer un crimen político, pero, incapaz de llevarlo a cabo, es asesinado por sus compañeros. Ella pide en vano ayuda a la policía, por lo que decide tomarse la justicia por su cuenta.
Writer
In 1969, the painter-sculptor Daniel Pommereulle made his third film, this one financed by Sylvina Boissonnas. Although only a short, Vite was one of the most costly of all the Zanzibar productions. It features, for instance, shots of the moon taken by a state-of-the-art telescope, the Questar, that Pommereulle first saw while visiting Marlon Brando in southern California in 1968. In Rohmer’s La Collectionneuse, Pommereulle and his friend Adrien philosophize on how best to achieve le vide (emptiness) during their summer holidays. Three years later, Pommereulle would transform the word “vide” to “vite” (quickly), signifying his profound disenchantment with the aftermath of the revolution of May ’68. —Harvard Film Archive
In 1969, the painter-sculptor Daniel Pommereulle made his third film, this one financed by Sylvina Boissonnas. Although only a short, Vite was one of the most costly of all the Zanzibar productions. It features, for instance, shots of the moon taken by a state-of-the-art telescope, the Questar, that Pommereulle first saw while visiting Marlon Brando in southern California in 1968. In Rohmer’s La Collectionneuse, Pommereulle and his friend Adrien philosophize on how best to achieve le vide (emptiness) during their summer holidays. Three years later, Pommereulle would transform the word “vide” to “vite” (quickly), signifying his profound disenchantment with the aftermath of the revolution of May ’68. —Harvard Film Archive
Director
In 1969, the painter-sculptor Daniel Pommereulle made his third film, this one financed by Sylvina Boissonnas. Although only a short, Vite was one of the most costly of all the Zanzibar productions. It features, for instance, shots of the moon taken by a state-of-the-art telescope, the Questar, that Pommereulle first saw while visiting Marlon Brando in southern California in 1968. In Rohmer’s La Collectionneuse, Pommereulle and his friend Adrien philosophize on how best to achieve le vide (emptiness) during their summer holidays. Three years later, Pommereulle would transform the word “vide” to “vite” (quickly), signifying his profound disenchantment with the aftermath of the revolution of May ’68. —Harvard Film Archive
This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press conference, backstage hedonism, psychedelia, manipulative managers and disc jockeys are portrayed as the pop culture is thoroughly and effectively lampooned in this independent feature.
Fergus's Friend
Al salir de la iglesia tras su boda, Julie Kohler ve cómo su marido es abatido a tiros. Decidida a vengar su muerte, emprende la búsqueda de los responsables y los va matando uno tras otro...
Writer
A young woman decided to make a show of her death she is going to look at during the whole film. We will see the progressive and long descent of a murderous machine which may pierce her throat.
Director
A young woman decided to make a show of her death she is going to look at during the whole film. We will see the progressive and long descent of a murderous machine which may pierce her throat.
Joseph Balsamo
Particular visión del cataclismo de la burguesía a cargo del polémico y genial director francés. Una fábula apocalíptica, desencantada y satírica, definida como un nuevo viaje de Gulliver a través del colapso de la sociedad de consumo representada en una joven pareja de burgueses.
Dialogue
Adrien y Jenny forman una pareja estable, pero han decidido pasar el verano separados. Adrien, propietario de una galería de arte, quiere estar un mes tranquilo sin hacer absolutamente nada. Sin embargo, al llegar a la casa de campo de un amigo se encuentra con Daniel, un pintor conceptual, y con la joven Haydée, una guapa chica con mucho éxito entre los hombres. Ante la actitud aparentemente indiferente de Adrien, Haydée parece aceptar los propósitos de serenidad y descanso declarados por los dos hombres. Poco a poco, sin embargo, Adrien acaricia en su imaginación la idea de que Haydée pretende seducirle, añadiéndolo a su "colección".
Daniel
Adrien y Jenny forman una pareja estable, pero han decidido pasar el verano separados. Adrien, propietario de una galería de arte, quiere estar un mes tranquilo sin hacer absolutamente nada. Sin embargo, al llegar a la casa de campo de un amigo se encuentra con Daniel, un pintor conceptual, y con la joven Haydée, una guapa chica con mucho éxito entre los hombres. Ante la actitud aparentemente indiferente de Adrien, Haydée parece aceptar los propósitos de serenidad y descanso declarados por los dos hombres. Poco a poco, sin embargo, Adrien acaricia en su imaginación la idea de que Haydée pretende seducirle, añadiéndolo a su "colección".
