Exercices de disparition

Titre anglais : Vanishing Exercises
Documentaire
    Réalisé par Claudio Pazienza • Écrit par Claudio Pazienza
    France, Belgique • 2011 • 48 minutes • Beta numérique • Couleur
Résumé

"Est-ce que le deuil a une date de péremption... comme les yoghourts ? Et qu’entend-t-on au juste par le terme "deuil" ? Dialoguant avec son professeur de philosophie (passionné de Nietzsche et de claquettes), l’auteur entreprend plusieurs voyages. Certains sont statiques et sollicitent le vécu des deux amis. D’autres voyages mettent les mots à l’épreuve de la géographie : nommer, décrire ce qui est là, devant soi, devient une manière de conjurer ce qui s’efface."
(Claudio Pazienza)

"A finger searches in a box of colour-headed pins. Traces a pattern in the powder snow. Leafs through a stack of letters. Close-ups of the filmmaker’s hands create the link between a mind that is searching and a body that is showing to the friend, the philosopher Jacques Sojcher, objects like the bottles of rainwater he collects at his window and labels—their dating, like a miniature stele, having more importance than their content. These objects are both funeral relics and proof that the world is alive and throbbing, just as the philosopher sees nothing contradictory in combining his passion for Nietzsche with his liking for tap-dancing. But Exercices de disparition also enables Claudio Pazienza, who seems constantly discomforted by his own off-screen voice, to make himself vanish. In one astonishing shot, he is seen stretched out behind his mother’s sewing-machine table and, for a few seconds, he transforms into a future man-cut-in-pieces. Mid-way between a conjuring trick and Francis Ponge’s The Voice of Things, the disappearing exercise takes on planetary dimensions: the film-maker disappears with Jacques to opposite sides of the world, as the editing takes them from Asia to Africa. Or makes Jacques climb into a coffin shaped like a giant fish. Could it be that disappearance in fact means becoming pure listening? Capturing in the dark (“nothing to describe, nothing to say”) the world’s sounds that come in answer to every mourning’s “explosion of silence”."
(Charlotte Garson, Cinéma du réel 2011)

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  • 2011 • Cinéma du réel • Paris (France) • Prix des jeunes- Cinéma du réel
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