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Goodbye, Mr. Marker

From Chris Marker's " Passengers " Chris Marker, born 29 July 1921; died 30 July 2012 Cocteau used to say that at night, statues escape from museums and go walking in the streets. During my peregrinations in the Paris Metro, I sometimes made such unusual encounters. Models of famous painters were still among us, and I was lucky enough to have them sitting in front of me. —Chris Marker Statues Also Die...

Hagop Hovnatanian

Sergei Paradjanov's Hagop Hovnatanian

differently, Molussia

From Nicolas Rey describing the impetus behind anders, Molussien I start by associating the texts with the sound recordings I have. I focus on the recordings that last a bit, developing in time, almost musically. And at the same time, but in a separate operation, I begin to make suites of images; hypothetical progressions in the imaginary country. Sketches of the film come through. The moment of truth comes when the soundtracks have to be confronted with the images. Curious combinations are born. Sound and image have to “chafe”, without destroying each other. Curiously, there doesn’t appear to be many possibilities. Little by little, however, the number of parts and the images that will remain in the film become evident. From the beginning, I believed that each part could be placed anywhere in the film. But that constraint of a random order made the exercise of editing a bit particular. Eventually it becomes clear that only one excerpt from the book will be present in each part