A Memory of Archives
A FILM BY CHRISTOPHE BISSON
2021 - 16:9 - HD - 45 min.
Art & Camera Award
Art History Festival 2016
In the Abbey of Ardenne, in the sumptuous reading room of the Institute of Contemporary Publishing Archives (IMEC), Isabelle Ullern opens one by one the boxes containing the archives of Sarah Kofman.
With her, we delve into the work and the intimacy of this French philosopher who, overwhelmed by depression after publishing the account of her past as a Jewish child hunted during the Occupation, ended her life in October 1994.
As the boxes are opened, the archivist "ventriloquizes" the voices of the absent philosopher: by reviving the memory of archives, Isabelle becomes, for the duration of the film, the vessel of Sarah.
With Isabelle Ullern & Pascale Butel
Writing, image, sound & direction: Christophe Bisson
With writing contribution from
Isabelle Ullern
Editing: Claire Atherton
Sound mixing
: Éric Lesachet
Colour grading: Baptiste Evrard
TRIPTYQUE FILMS presents
in co-production with viàVosges
this film was shot at the Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives (IMEC) - Abbey of Ardenne – Saint-Germain-de-la-Blanche-Herbe
This film is the winner of the Art&Caméra Award 2016 at the Festival of Art History,
a national initiative by the Ministry of Culture
implemented by the National Institute of Art History & the Château de Fontainebleau
its script was developed at the Academy of France in Rome – Villa Medici
with the participation of Mr. Carlo Peronne & Le Fresnoy – National Studio for Contemporary Arts
with writing and production support from the Normandy Region,
in partnership with the CNC & in association with Normandie Images
with the support of the Brouillon d’un rêve grant from the Scam*
& the program “Culture with Private Copying”
with the participation of the National Centre for Cinema & Animated Image (CNC)
with the support of the Foundation for the Memory of the Shoah
with the support of the Jan Michalski Foundation – for Writing and Literature
MUTA International Festival of Audiovisual Appropriation
Lima, Peru (04-12 September 2021)
