PARIS CALLIGRAMMES
synopsis
In a rich torrent of archival audio and visuals, paired with extracts from her own artworks and films, Ottinger resurrects the old Saint-Germain- des-Prés and Latin Quarter, with their literary cafés and jazz clubs, and revisits encounters with Jewish exiles, life with her artistic community, the worldviews of Parisian ethnologists and philo- sophers, the political upheavals of the Algerian War and May 1968, and the legacy of the colonial era. “I followed the footsteps of my heroines and heroes,” Ottinger narrates. “Wherever I found them, they will appear in this film too.”
international title: | Paris Calligrammes |
original title: | Paris Calligrammes |
country: | Germany, France |
year: | 2020 |
genre: | documentary |
directed by: | Ulrike Ottinger |
film run: | 129' |
screenplay: | Ulrike Ottinger |
cinematography by: | Ulrike Ottinger |
film editing: | Anette Fleming |
art director: | Aurore Vullierme |
producer: | Thomas Kufus, Kornelia Theune |
co-producer: | Pierre-Olivier Bardet, Gérald Collas |
line producer: | Corina Ziller, Claire Lion |
production: | Zero One Film, Idéale Audience, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) |
backing: | INA - Institut National de l'Audiovisuel |
distributor: | Dean Medias |