Boris Lehman
Babel : Fin du cycle
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Add rightsFormat 2 x DVD Interzone, paperback book
Original format 16mm
Year 2016-2020
Language(s) French
Artist(s) Boris Lehman
Subtitles English
Book 112 pages
Running time 323 min
Films
OUBLIS, REGRETS ET REPENTIRS / LAPSES, REGRETS AND QUALMS (2016) 42'
UNE HISTOIRE DE CHEVEUX [SIBÉRIE] / A HISTORY OF HAIR [SIBERIA] (2020) 97'
FUNÉRAILLES [DE L'ART DE MOURIR] / FUNERAL [ON THE ART OF DYING] (2016) 97'
FANTÔMES DU PASSÉ [COMMENT L'HISTOIRE EST ENTRÉE EN MOI] / GHOSTS FROM THE PAST [HOW HISTORY GOT INTO ME] (2020) 87'
Description
"After a journey of more than 9000 kilometers, somewhere at the end of the world, the filmmaker arrives in a former autonomous Jewish enclave imagined by Stalin, in order to find traces of his name. But the end is also death, stopping, non-movement, and the allegory of the train stopping at the camps. So he punctuates this journey with encounters with people, with others, who in turn become the subject of the film and bearers of stories."
— Bertrand Gevart (Une histoire de cheveux [Sibérie])
"How does one film one's own death? How does one stage it? At first glance this may seem amusing and yet this question concerns everyone, even if one is not a filmmaker. Funérailles (de l'art de mourir) presents itself as the "final" episode of my auto-cine-biographical work, Babel, which covers a little more than thirty years of my life."
— Boris Lehman