Marcelle Thirache

Initial situation: models were invited to participate in their portrait by the contribution of personal objects and a great freedom of expression before the camera. This initial situation was conceived by Catherine Rebois. Graffon: I propose to film in a fragmented way these sessions of pose. Participants agree to be filmed at the same time they are photographed. Deliberately sharpened shift between an initial situation in its own duration and its filmic recording. The sequence of photographic shooting sessions is shattered.

Cinexpérimentaux is a series of documentaries on experimental filmmakers, produced and directed by Michel Amarger and Frédérique Devaux. N°8 is dedicated to the most important European cooperative Light Cone created in 1982 in Paris.

Camera movements on “tamaris”, a plant that grows by the sea on the Ile de Ré, painting and Indian ink.

Camera movements on a pine (“Songshù” in Chinese) at dusk when the light is so soft. Film with nuanced hues and Chinese painting graphics.

Film shot on the Isle of Ré where I spent my vacations as a child at my grandparents' house. I attempted to show everything that had moved me.

A film by Marcelle Thirache

A short film by Marcelle Thirache

A short film by Marcelle Thirache

Study of the fragment, the word, the written word... some are in French, others in Greek, without translation. For those who do not understand Greek, magic of the unknown, word-drawing, form in itself. The beauty of the texts means that they do not need images. It is not an illustrative film, it is a film about the fragment that reveals itself... reappears... a film based on the superimposition of images... a film in perpetual motion, nothing stops... It is a film about the sensuality which emerges from the poems... images of a moving matter where fantasies can slip in. It is a film about the poetry of love, the violence of passions, the tears... Sappho tender and violent, philosopher and poet... Sappho who comes back to us, present, beyond the 2700 years that separate us.

Experimental, Super 8

Experimental, Super 8

The filmed object is a magnetic tape placed on pieces of mirrors. The whole film is based on the camera movements that are played with light, on the meanders of the magnetic strip. Precise and wild film with very tight framing. Abstract film. Visual music or philosophical film?... Chaos or Plato's cave?...

The nature of form is to hide the object rather than define it, and the nature of light is to conceal substance rather than to delineate.

Super 8mm / color / silent / 1S / 3' 00

There are four of them, they were enthusiastic about the idea of ​​diverting images from salvage films - each one worked on different sequences; the whole put end to end gives a film full of graphic richness, freshness and humor.

Graphic film. Intersecting lines. An exploration of visibility, some sequences are barely perceptible, disappear, then reappear. Lines, ruptures, erasures... But a set of lines moving together can also create a ballet. A film to sit back and watch time pass... and time has its own rhythm... suspended time... seconds of eternity.

A nod to Germaine Dulac. I filmed brass discs with camera movements. The discs deform and create new shapes; sometimes they glimpse each other, overlapping to create abstract forms. The sound is computer-generated.

Movements of the camera on shiny, white and colored paper, and Indian ink.

A plane tree filmed from my window on a day with blue sky, onto which I applied ink.

A film shot in London which I then painted on.

Film painted directly on the film strip.