David Wharry

David Wharry

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Born in the United Kingdom in 1950, lives and works in France since 1975. Since 1978 David Wharry has been working on GENERAL PICTURE, an evolving work currently made up of about twenty “episodes”. These films can be shown together, separately or in different orders. GENERAL PICTURE explores the fundamental components of the cinematographic spectacle and in particular its theatrical aspect, the notion of projection, the relationship between the projected image and the spectator. In this crime (wanted by its main accomplice, the spectator) GENERAL PICTURE involves different genres of commercial cinema, and its structure and its narrative interweaving allow and generate this freedom of movement without guilt.

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David Wharry
David Wharry

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The Taj Mahal
Director
"The eye. It sees. It sees what it sees. Light…"
The Screen
Director
The actors: a projector, a screen, a voice, an audience and a cinema. The locations: “here” and “there.” The situation: an audience is sitting in the dark in a cinema. The film begins when the projector is switched on. The projector is running empty, projecting only a bright white rectangle on the screen. The action begins when the voice asks the audience: “Are you there?” “Yes, you’re there,” the voice replies for us. “But one day you won’t be there, will you?” The voice isn’t “there.” Where is it? “Here.” Where? On the other side of the screen. The voice then asks us to project ourselves into a scenario, into the film of that inevitable eventuality we all prefer not to think about: the passage from one side of the screen to the other, from being “there” to “no longer being there,” from “here” to “there.” And what better place to do this than in a cinema?
Dream
Director
Dreams: that cinema of the mind in which we are both spectator and protagonist, where anything is always seamlessly possible, where the most implausible encounters are commonplace.
Point Blank
Director
Shot-by-shot description of John Boorman’s neo-noir film (1967), starring Lee Marvin, co-starring Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn and Carroll O’Connor.
Carlton Dekker
Director
Chutes de Feuilles d’été
Feuilles d'été
Teo Hernández films some friends in a park under the Parisian summer heat.
Written on the Wind
Director
What do you remember about a film when you haven’t seen it for ten years? James McCourt’s memory is prodigious. In an office in the Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, the American writer recounts his favourite film, Douglas Sirk’s 1956 melodrama WRITTEN ON THE WIND, scene by scene, sometimes almost shot by shot.
Body and Soul
Director
El Cafetal
Director
On a coffee plantation near Havana in the early 19th century, a slave’s impossible love for the owner’s daughter.
Suddenly Once More
Director
The multiple identities of Professor Anatole Lacoste.
European Crisis
Director
Professor Anatole Lacoste is having a meeting with one of the agents of doctor Brain at a Jackson Pollock exhibition at Centre Pompidou. Meanwhile, Deborah is about to take a bath when burglar Torlim Novak breaks into her house. Everything seems to be normal when the computer at the control station spots an anomaly in the way history functions. But how does one stop the film?
Freighters of Destiny
Director
Prelude à la Nuit
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Entr’acte / Interlude
Director
General Picture - Part 7
A Touch of Venus
Director
À plate couture
Director
For Eyes Only
Director
Dawn Patrol
Director
The shadow of an opening door sweeps across the floor...
Phaeton
Director
Wishful Thinking
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Horizontal Hold
Director
Structuralist film using multiple photographs of a number of people projected at varied speeds against multi-colored backgrounds.
The Edge of Darkness
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The Mark of the Three
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