Friday, August 4 – 6:00 – 7:30 P.M.
Auditorio – Alianza Francesa
Presentation in French with simultaneous translation to English.
Keynote Speaker: Jean-Paul Fargier

Presented by: Jorge La Ferla and Clara Garavelli.

Documentary directors are divided into two categories: 1) Those who think that the director should not implicate themselves in their films in order to reveal the real objectively. 2) Those who try to singularize their approach to the real, with a personal signature, in order to guarantee a truth that cannot be anything but subjective. I like to think that I am part of the second group, and that each of the hundreds of documentaries I have made provides
evidence of the play of the “I”; this game gliding within the film between the real and truth; a game that does not obey any single rule, but invents thousands of ways to put the “I” at risk. I observe herein at least three ways I have practised, alternately or simultaneously, the themes at hand: 1) Physical presence within the frame or in the soundtrack. 2) Symbolic identification (as in Flaubert: “Madame Bovary is me”). 3) The style (as far as style makes the man, as Buffon citing Lacan says). A demonstration (Ludic, I hope) with a few clips from my films, which I have dedicated to the artists I admire greatly: Nam June Paik, Bill Viola, Jean-Daniel Pollet.