Boris Lehman
Mes entretiens filmés (Chapitres 1-3)
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Original format 16mm
Year 1995-2012
Language(s) French,English
Artist(s) Boris Lehman
Sous-titres French, English, German
Running time 404 min
Films
MES ENTRETIENS FILMÉS : CHAPITRE 1 (1995) 125'
MES ENTRETIENS FILMÉS : CHAPITRE 2 (1998) 153'
MES ENTRETIENS FILMÉS : CHAPITRE 3 (2010) 126'
Description
It can be seen as a manifesto of independent cinema, a cinema freed from financial and professional constraints, or as an introduction to Boris Lehman's filmed work, or even as proof of friendship and an act of loyalty toward close ones. These are not interviews in the strict sense of the word; it's a film composed of small conversations, all of which are staged. There is talk of cinema, naturally, but above all we see how Boris Lehman's cinema conjugates and constructs itself before our eyes. Something that has the quality of a first draft, of raw and spontaneous work, because nothing is prepared—it's always done by chance, depending on encounters and shooting opportunities. And so there are plenty of stammerings, hesitations, repetitions, moments that may seem boring. I didn't want to remove any of that, to clean it up, as they say in cinema jargon—these remnants are part of the work. It is, as Patrick Leboutte says at one point, a thought in motion, a thought in the process of forming. Ultimately, it would be a film about the art of being together. A gallery of portraits that sketch, in filigree and in reflection, a self-portrait.