CERCLITUDES
à Christophe GOULARD

by Olivier FOUCHARD
2023 / 35mm / color / sound / 1S / 2' 50

Monday, 12:04 p.m., a text message: "... I learned from a friend at L'Abo that Christophe died today..."

This announcement leaves me speechless.
(...)

Well, it's over, he's gone, so no point banging on the answering machine... Last night, Catherine Bareau told us about a beautiful round moon watching over him...
(...)
Christophe Goulard, I thought about him all day yesterday, Tuesday, and I won't forget him anytime soon...
(...)
Olivier Fouchard
(in Saint-Maurice-des-Lions, July 5, 2023 at 2:15 a.m.
corrected July 11, 2023 at 3:40 p.m. / excerpts)

Cerclitudes is a play on words: certainties, circles, habits...; "Cerclitudes" is also the title of a painting by Pierre Alechinsky, a painter I've admired for decades, ever since I first became acquainted with his work.

"Cerclitudes" is also a film about mourning, as I begin editing my film "Astres & Désastres," another title from another painting by Alechinsky.

Christophe Goulard knew so well how to challenge our certainties and also question our habits, our certainties, and our... Certainties!

For me, he was a kind of "Tempestaire" of electromechanical, mechanical, and electronic machines....

Olivier Fouchard,
July 20, 2023, at SMDL.

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distribution format Digital file on server (FHD)
screen 16/9 (single screen)
speed 23,976 fps
sound sound
original language French
rental fee 24,00 €