Le Film de l’impossible

LE FILM DE L’IMPOSSIBLE

A film written and directed by Frank Smith

Two series alternate on the image track of Le Film de l’impossible.

First, a dialogued reading between François Bonenfant and Frank Smith takes place within the framework of the piece-installation Un lieu-comme-œuvre. — “a place of art” conceived by François Laroche-Valière at the Théâtre L’échangeur, Bagnolet. This exchange attempts to define what a film entitled Le Film de l’impossible might be. It deals with the status of the image in cinema, that of representation, of present-day politics — irreconcilable — and of the need to recompose today a new “thinking of the image” — still impossible.

In counterpoint, images unfold that were shot in the white desert of the Chott-El-Jérid (Tunisia), made up of uniform elements — sky, earth, mirages — through shots constantly identical to themselves, in which the camera turns on its axis through 360 degrees.

The film would be made at the same time as it is filmed.

With François Bonenfant et Frank Smith

Situations — Un lieu-comme-œuvre. François Laroche-Valière

Image and editing Arnold Pasquier

Sound Marc Parazon

Mixing Ivan Gariel

Music Philippe Langlois

Thanks to Marianne Catzaras, Géraldine Gomez, Thomas Peyres, Barbara Polla, Ali Quarimi, Camille Trastour, Eduardo Williams

Production Les films du Zigzag, September 2017

In association with the Centre Pompidou / Hors Piste