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Title: Michel Steiner 64 Agendas
Runtime: 37 min
Country: France
Director: Sylvie Steiner & Gérard Bouysse
Placement: Award of Excellence
Competition: September, 2024
Synopsis: Michel Steiner was a painter. Before disappearing, he entrusted to the filmmakers 64 agendas, 64 years of thoughts on his painting.
The authors of this film have taken up the pursuit of presence that obsessed the painter all his life, the presence that is, that has been, that fades away… Questioning of a man, of his relationship to the world.
We are not talking here about the Great Memory of the Artist, but about the memory of everyday life, a modest memory that cracks open the space between our gaze and the mysterious rustling that inhabits our being.
It is a montage of wanderings, a resonance between texts and presences, distorted places and times, paintings and drawings…
“The voice” reminds, asserts, by its very texture, that it is not that of Michel.
And yet the quality of interpretation by Jeanne Heuclin-Houdart meets the deep intimacy of the texts and brings the viewer closest to the thoughts of the painter-man.
The sound design, meanwhile, has inherited the inexorable and emotionless advance of time, indifference, the ticking of the cardiac muscle, the pulsation of the artery at the corner of the temple, the incessant voice in the hollow of our ear that reminds us…
This film no longer indicates only the traces of the adventure of a man: to explore, to scratch what covers, to uncover, to bring to light the boundaries between absence and presence.
