Country: France
Year: 2004
Duration: 19'
A young woman
returns to the house of
her childhood after the death of her parents. Everything has remained
the same.
She is touched by the intensity of the memories and by the feeling of
an
invisible presence that, despite the death, has not abandoned the
house. Thanks
to the apartment and its atmosphere, the past becomes alive and she
finds, once
again, the eyes of the little girl she was.
“I
can finally look at these images
calmly. The walls have become flat strips of color, spaces interspersed
with
gray traces which have in turn become paint delimitated by a frame.
[…] The
photography has captured a dimension which is invisible to the naked
eye. You
would have to have the patience of an entomologist to catalogue the
more
evident variations of the forms, inventing a name for each species, for
each
tremble of breath. And the nails are like the pins which transfix
beetles in their
case.” (S. Pieyre de Mandiargues)
Biography
film director
Sibylle Pieyre de Mandiargues
Sybille Pieyre
de Mandiargues (Paris, 1967)
worked from 1995 to 2000
as curator of exhibits at the Gallery of Modern Art in Ferrara. In 1999
she
co-directed and wrote the screenplay for the documentary about
André de
Mandiargues for the French series Un
Siècle d'écrivans. In 2002 she
curated the exhibit of
the Mexican photographer Gabriela Iturbide at the Andersen Museum in
Rome for
the first International Photography Festival. In 2004
FILMOGRAFIA
André
Pieyre de Mandiarguez: l'amateur
d'imprudence, 1909-1991 (co-regia
Eveline Clavaud, mm, doc., 1999), Demeure (cm,
2004).