Le souvenir d'un avenir Documentary - 2001 - B/W
Director : Yannick Bellon
et Chris Marker
42 minutes
Visa # 72912 Production : Les Films de l'Equinoxe
Distribution : Les Films du Jeudi
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SUMMARY
Color of time, color of days, Denise Bellon's harvest of photographs is perhaps nothing more than a fascinating diary, the journal of a life open to its time, from 1935 to 1955. Since its creation in the 1930s, Denise Bellon has been a member of the "Alliance-Photo" team, a photographic press agency. Her images were published in major magazines in France and abroad. The artist's itinerary constantly follows the paths of freedom. His golden rule is curiosity and attention to the world. A photographer is a thief of moments. With her Rolleiflex in hand, Denise Bellon never ceases to go out and meet life, to make appointments with people, to capture beautiful unknown faces and famous neighbors, strollers along the Seine, Prévert and his gang, scrap metal dealers and Marcel Duchamp, André Masson or Pierre Bonnard in their studios. Day after day, this pictorial diary weaves the fabric of time: as the city moves along, so does history, from the 1937 Universal Exhibition to the nights of the Occupation, from Surrealist friends to Auguste Lumière, from a gypsy wedding to Giono and Joë Bousquet, friendship and discovery come full circle. And the smile of a woman who knew how to hold up to time the mirror of an epoch can be glimpsed in the watermark of this testimony to a life lived. |