POUR MÉMOIRE

A foundry in Perche established in 1876. A final homage paid to the ancestral occupation of foundrymen, whose actions have been repeated innumerable times through the years and which are now going to disappear forever.

"The shutting down of a dark cavern, without a sky, without a bottom, without an end, centered on fire, on sparks and on fusion, made by fire genius, and in the case in point, the workers of the cavern. Evasion: the pleasure of communicating with the genies, the spirit and the things of that place" (J.-D. Pollet, 1983).

"A forge, a foundry, fragile, old, ancient like an ancient person, but which still stands straight, even though it dates back to 1876. Withered workers, burnt by the sparks, who at dawn every day begin the same actions once again, mechanical but ritual. A dying cathedral under a pale sun up high... To make this film, Maurice Born and I adopted the same schedule as the workers and every day we went to the foundry. The production lasted almost a year" (J.-D. Pollet, 1993).