Comme Marlène dans le Sahara - Autoportrait de la cinémathèque de Toulouse

This is a self-portrait of the film library in Toulouse, a "ghost" that presents herself as a rich provincial figure in the heritage of the cinema. Halfway between a monologue and a dialogue with the spectator, the story accompanies a long stroll through its most secret places : store-rooms full of reels and dark rooms where its treasures are laid up (Lumière cinematograph, old projectors, posters, contemporary magazines, praxinoscopes, photographs). Little by little, it tells its story. A series of strokes of luck and above all the willpower of those who are cinema archive enthusiasts like its founder, Raymond Borde, are responsible for its coming into existence thirty-seven years ago.