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DOCUMENTARY FICTION ON THE OCCASION

TO CARRY OUT A JUDGEMENT ON HOW TO MAKE FILMS

Félix…

And then St. Augustine:

“The truth is so beloved

that even the liars wish what they say to be true.”

GODS

HISTORY

Enter now Jean Moulin with your terrible procession

With all those who, like you died in cellars without breaking

or even perhaps more atrocious still, those who did break

It was a time when, out in the countryside, we listened tensely to the barking of dogs in the depths of the night,

a time when multi-colored parachutes, laden with weapons and cigarettes

fell from the sky by the light of flares burning in forest clearings or on windswept plateaus,

a time of cellars, and the desperate cries of torture victims, their voices like those of children…

The great battle in the darkness had begun

THE RESPONSE OF DARKNESS

Enter now, Jean Moulin with your terrible procession

with all those who, like you, died in cellars without breaking

or even more atrocious still, those who did break

IN ALGERIA YOU TOOK PART IN TORTURE SESSIONS, TODAY WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT?

I was conviced that if I didn't follow suit…

IN ALGERIA YOU TOOK PART IN TORTURE SESSIONS, TODAY WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT?

…I would be condamned, I wouldn't escape unhurt

IN ALGERIA YOU TOOK PART IN TORTURE SESSIONS, TODAY WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THAT?

I wonder if I resisted…

You have resisted since you are still here

Resisted?

FOR ME TO FORGET THAT I TORTURED IS IMPOSSIBLE

Today when you think about it do you think you could’ve done something else?

Or the situation was so restricted that you felt a prisoner of this situation?

It’s not even “prisoner,” it’s…

You are truly in a situation, completely unable to…

ONLY THE SQUARE GIVES IMAGES OF THINGS

WHICH UNTIL NOW HAVE BEEN BANISHED FROM THE SCREEN

DESTRUCTION GIVEN FREE REIGN EVERYWHERE BUT WHAT DO THE 5 SERPENTS MEAN?

THEY SHOW THE 4 ELEMENTS IN THE MIDST OF WHICH DESTINY IS GIVEN FREE REIGN

ONE MAN ALONE HAS PREPARED THEM AND THIS MAN IS A TORTURED MAN

In the ruins of Karame, a little girl from Fatah recites a poem by Mahmoud Darwich, “I shall resist”

Speak first of the setting

and the actor in the setting, that is, the theatre

This theatre, where does it come from?

It comes from 1789, from the French Revolution

and from the pleasure the members of the ’89 convention took in spectacular gestures, and in reciting their demands publically

This little girl, here, is acting for the Palestinian Revolution, of course

She’s innocent, but maybe this form of theatre is less so

CHILDHOOD

This is how it must be

I have to make life unbearable

I have to make the game despise me so it will spew me forth

so it will spit in my face!

I must become hideous!

She’ll kill me! She’s gone insane!

Help!

No, I haven’t gone insane. You’re wrong.

You’re the one who’s insane

I must hold out to the end

And the end’s a long way off and I must live it all. It won’t be easy!

Paul, look at me…

Can you hear me?

who will help this world, so stuck and depressed

This world which must absolutely change

And which eventually will change

Pretty children of Aubervilliers

Pretty children of proletarians

Pretty children of poverty

Pretty children all over the world

POLITICS

But rite was rite, and symbol was symbol

TERROR

It was Olga, I'm sure of it

Olga?

You met her one night, she wanted to give you a DVD

It's her

How do you know?

She gave the audience five minutes to get out.

She said if there was one Israeli who’d die with her for peace, not for war, she’d be happy

Then what?

Everybody left, leaving her alone

She had a big red shoulder bag

The marksmen arrived and killed her before she could open her bag

It contained only books

BEAUTY

Children!

Let’s do a race!

Who can eat the apple the fastest

One, two, three!

Hurry! You’re a retard

Massoumeh, hurry up!

I eat it slowly, like this, I appreciate it better

You’re gonna lose. If you eat slowly, you will lose

Lord, if you will, make me clean

It is my will, be made clean

Tell no man, rather go and show yourself to the priest

and offer them the gift which Moses ordained

It must be a testimony to them

…the word that can make the dead come to life

In the name of Jesus Christ, I bid thee...

Arise!

Fear not! Stand still and see the Salvation of the Lord!

It’s the Wrath of God!

POVERTY

Her back was the most beautiful in the world

When Yazundokta's estate, all her property, was taken away, and she needed food,

she would allow them to kiss her back for money

Only kissing and only her back

His mother and father are also blind

They told their son that everybody is blind

and that no one can see themselves

But the blind boy made his own discovery

He figured out that all people are women

Every person is a woman, and all voices are the voices of women

That’s what he thinks

Women give birth to children who are also women

And his fate was to be a man

That’s why he is a cripple

And his father a cripple because born a man

He believes that the only other man is his father

DEFEAT

Have you seen Edmund?

Something lit up her face

Oh, Jeanne, to reach you at last, what a strange path I had to take

After having spent a long time in Sarajevo

I perfectly knew how it happened

When a shell felt and injured people, relief came the next minute

And I shot two films in one minute

The wounded have been taken away at once

…and without any guilt

And then I heard my father breathing beside me

And when I tried to turn round to see him, I understood I was really injured

His belly was…

He had a tear on his belly that opened

And at this moment I saw a photographer taking pictures

Did you remember having seen him?

Yes, I perfectly remember Luc

At that time I didn't know he was the French photographer Luc Delahaye

I only remember that I wondered why he stood there,

why he shot pictures, whe he didn't help me

Because I couldn't get up

I understood I had injuries everywhere

I couldn't get on my feet nor turn back

I really wanted to turn back because I called my father and he didn't answer

But I heard him breathing

And I wondered what he was doing, why he didn't help me

I don't think that I talked to him

But on one of the photos he took, I think I looked straight in his eyes

or maybe straight in his lense

MATTER

…by studying the positions and speed of repatriated stars,

Ort was able to calculate the mass of our galaxy

To his surprise he discovered visible mass represents only 50% of the mass needed to deploy gravity

Where did the other half of the universe pass?

IN I THINK THEREFORE I AM THE I OF I AM IS NOT THE SAME AS THE I OF I THINK

THE SAME THE OTHER

CERTAINTY

THE BLIND

COUNTRY

FILTH

The Vietcong went back up unconscious after having been asphyxiated by a US grenade

The Americans force revive the combatant in order to question her

What do they derive?

Insults, communist songs or cries of pain…

SWEETNESS

FATALITY

VICTORY

DEATH

And when I looked at closely, I saw it wasn't the same

Actually, there someone shot him, and there he shot the picture

As the two photos are quite identical, I said to my friend that it was what I wanted to keep from him

I understood instantly that he left me a picture of what death was

I think it's a picture of death

And I understood that death was an empty place in a landscape

Nothing else, just an empty place…

PASSPORT TO THE REAL

FALSE

NATO participates to an air-sea exercise

8,000 navies and 40 battleship are training between the coast of Var, Corsica and Sardinia

in order to permit to the French navy to join the new rapid intervention force of the Atlantic Alliance

TRUE

The cannon are ours!

lt's ours. We bought it!

Disperse!

First warning!

We will use force! Disperse!

Second and last warning.

Disperse!

Well, hello, live from the 11 th District,

your reporter for National Television Versailles,

to brief you on the incredible events in Paris this morning

lndeed, several movements of…

l'm from Versailles TV and we'd like to know what's happening…

Tell jackass Thiers to come back to the 11th and we'll see!

You can see the strange atmosphere here in Paris

You liar, back to Versailles!

lt's very difficult to get answers

Can you tell us what you think of this?

The situation is quite disconcerting…

And who are you?

My name is Wickham Hoffman, l'm assistant to US Ambassador, Mr. Washburne

And what does the US think of the events in Paris?

Personally, l find the situation very serious, with this insurrectionary crowd in the streets

l'm quite worried

For the property owners in Paris, it's a very worrying situation

Thank you

What do you think of the events unfolding in Paris?

l'm extremely anxious and very worried

My husband is a doctor What will happen to us?

l'm really very worried

Do you think this riot could worsen?

Might it lead to civil war?

I'm afraid so

And you, Madame?

I'm shattered!

War was over, we had peace, and now this!

l can't understand it l really can't

Will you stay here?

l must, l have workers,

l must protect my labour

DISCOURSE

I saw my first Italian films on this little screen

with my family around, pretty much in a room like this

I'm American, so when I decided to try to make films, I naturally thought my place was gonna be in Hollywood

I mean if you are a filmmaker in America, that's where they make the movies

But then the more films I made, the more I realized what an indelible mark Italian cinema had left on me

So as a filmmaker I feel stuck, I never really feel as a Hollywood director

and obviously I'm an Italian director either

So I guess I've to find my own somewhere in between in order to feel comfortable

Fellini said that Rossellini seemed to know exactly what he wanted when he was shooting this episode

He was looking for a new way to tell a story on film with nothing artistically embellished

where everything seems to be simply enfolding as in life

For me this clarity of vision as an almost religious impact

As the French film critic André Bazin said, Rossellini was simply directing the facts

In the early 60s, there was a great debate

People took sides passionately

On one side there was La Dolce Vita, on the other side there was Antonioni's L'Avventura

Two completely unique that couldn't be more different

La Dolce Vita was a big sprawling circus

L'Avventura was mysterious, distant

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