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Screening introduced by Gisèle Rapp-Meichler
"To clarify what is at stake, it must first be mentioned that there were two of us who took the risk: the decision to make films was based on our decision to live together in order to arm ourselves against the separation of labor that works at the separation of the couple – against which Godard effectively warned at the time. And since this decisive warning, which applied to both of us, came from cinema, it was precisely this domain, which is propitious for collective creative work and capable of sustaining a vibrant relationship, that we actively embraced."
– Luc Meichler in Limelight n°1, 1992.
A filmmaker who practiced photography daily, Luc made little of it, preferring to turn his life into a continuous performance rather than claim the status of a certified artist. He defined his living space as an island that allowed him to keep his head above the water. At the origin of a film there would always be a place, which the shoot would transform into an island to be mapped within its boundaries, explored in every direction, revealed while one stayed put but journeyed in intensity. L'Allée des Signes [The Alley of Signs] was the first time an actual island was chosen, in 1976. Later, the motif of the hinterland reinforced the one of the island and emerged as a common denominator. The recurring dream of a place furthered the field of investigation, giving rise to a second film, Au lieu [At the Place] (...of the dream, that is). A return to the homeland, to its ruins, with multiple impressions made in-camera that reinforced the isolation of the chosen sites. Even his self-portrait as photographer, Conversio at Fantasmata, inhabits a circumscribed territory as a place both trodden and rejected, the matrix that had shaped his gaze, a curious house of cards rephotographed using an animation stand and besieged by a psychogeographic commentary. In Paris, Réserve [Reserve] was born out of daily walks across the city captured as filmed urban locations and paired with nascent, sometimes mythological, narratives just waiting to be reactivated. This is what was done in Jeu et sérieux [Game and serious], part of the collective film Outrage et Rébellion. A particularly inspiring place, Hilsen in Alsace, served as a refuge above the clouds, a veritable mountain island not easy to reach. Another reserve of sounds and images was collected there, from which would emerge several films, including Trois incursions dans un éboulis sur un poème de Samuel Wood [Three excursions into a scree to a poem by Samuel Wood], shot at the same time as Rosa Rot. We intended for these films to be shown together. They exemplify a way of working as a duo in a shared space, just as, though in a different vein, Passionnément [Passionately], a single-take film based on a performance by Philippe Sergeant reciting Gherasim Luca's poem, which, reworked twenty years later with the addition of the stutter, became Ne dominez pas vos passions [Do not dominate your passions]. Films were made in Alsace, the "plausible island between the Vosges Sea and the Rhineland," in Crete with the writer René Nicolas Ehni, in the studios of the artists Kowalski, Dado, and other collaborators... We had film projects centered on this motif of the island and the hinterland, as we searched for the "place and the formula" across Arcadia, Thingvellir, and Maurice Blanchot's The Madness of the Day. It was around this film that Luc eventually ceased shooting.
– Gisèle Rapp-Meichler
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AU LIEU
by Luc MEICHLER & Gisèle RAPP-MEICHLER 1980 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 10' 00 |
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CONVERSIO AT FANTASMATA
by Luc MEICHLER & Gisèle RAPP-MEICHLER 1987 / 16mm / color-b&w / sound / 6' 00 |
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ALLÉE DES SIGNES
by Luc MEICHLER & Gisèle RAPP-MEICHLER 1976 / 16mm / b&w / sound / 21' 00 |
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NE DOMINEZ PAS VOS PASSIONS
by Gisèle RAPP-MEICHLER 2019 / DCP / color / sound / 6' 50 |
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JEU ET SERIEUX
Ciné-tract by Luc MEICHLER & Gisèle RAPP-MEICHLER 2009 / DCP / b&w / sound / 4' 10 |
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TROIS INCURSIONS DANS UN ÉBOULIS
sur un poème de Samuel Wood by Luc MEICHLER 2001 / DCP / color / sound / 7' 45 |
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