Le mystère de l’Art

In 1956, Henri-Georges Clouzot sought to capture nothing less than the creative act of Pablo Picasso. The result was the great documentary: Le mystère Picasso. The film records Picasso creating and uncreating numerous scenes, allowing us to see his genius at work. All (or most of) the paintings were subsequently destroyed so that they would only exist on film.

C. Marker’s La jetée

Chris Marker’s film La jetée (1962) is a film that explores the relation image-sound and image-story in a unique and very original way that escapes standard classifications. It is also about our desires to travel in time and the essential attributes of humanity (love, imagination, evil, patience). Chris Marker reduces the cinematographic narrative to its most basic elements without eliminating any essential part, he goes to the limits of the process of simplification but not further. Like Picasso with his Minotaurs.