Antonioni la dernière séquence

At the editing bench, Michelangelo Antonioni describes the shooting of one of the most famous scenes of cinema: the last scene of Profession:Reporter, where the camera leaves the hero (played by Jack Nicholson), goes through fine wire netting, sweeps round a virtually deserted courtyard, then returns to the hotel room, from where from the hero has disappeared in the meantime. The film-maker provides no interpretation of this sequence. He contents himself with explaining its practical difficulties in great detail: how it was necessary to remove the wire netting, to pass the camera from one boom to the other, and so on. This is what is so invaluable about this rarely-shown short film made by André S. Labarthe for the TV programme "Cinéma-Cinemas". The staging of a disappearance is recounted in the chosen terms of a technical lesson, so that the filmic work seems split into two completely separate halves: the desired emptiness, and the completeness of the means used to achieve it.