Boxset containing a book and ten artist's films on DVD.
Or an invitation to cast eye back to an origin, to a first glance, to a first image.
Or ten artists and film-makers, ten short films, ten paths.
Or a paradise, the storm, a painting, poems, flowers, the death, the cinema, children,
visions, the music, Athens, a quest, two quests, a circle.
Or a bough of white lilac.
Or a collection of original contributions from Mali Arun, Ismaïl Bahri, Hicham Berrada, Jean Breschand, Alexandre Castant, Agnès de Cayeux, Antoine Danis, Maïder Fortuné, Ana Maria Gomes, Daphné Hérétakis, Joachim Olender, Clément Postec, Dania Reymond, which are like so many variations on the first image.
La Première Image is a public commission by the Centre national des arts plastiques and the Grec – Groupe de recherches et d'essais cinématographiques, produced by the Grec, with the support of Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée.
Jean Breschand is a film-maker, whose works include Le Retour du Monde (2003),
L'Aménagement du Territoire (2006) and Joan the Pope (2016). He also wrote thescreenplays for Because I Was a Painter (Christophe Cognet, 2014), Kamen (FlorenceLazar, 2014) and Anna Karina, Une Destinée à Part (Dennis Berry, 2017). A former
Vertigo editor, he has also written a number of critical essays on film (Le Documentaire,
l'autre face du cinéma, 2003). He is the chairman of the GREC.
Alexandre Castant is anessayist, art critic and teacher. He is the author of La Photographie dans l'oeil des
passages (2004), Planètes sonores. Radiophonie, arts, cinéma (2007), ImagoDrome, des
images mentales dans l'art contemporain (supervised); (2010), Journal
audiobiographique. Radiophonie, arts, cinéma (2016). He teaches contemporary arthistory and aesthetics at the ENSA in Bourges, France.
Agnès de Cayeux is an artist,researcher, exhibition curator and set designer. She explores the aesthetic and theoreticalaspects of information and communication technologies and the critical writing forms theycreate.
Texts by Jean Breschand, Alexandre Castant, Agnès De Cayeux, Mali Arun, Ismaïl Bahri, Hicham Berrada, Antoine Danis, Maïder Fortune, Ana Maria Gomes, Daphné Heretakis, Joachim Olender, Clément Postec, Dania Reymond.
Films directed by Mali Arun, Ismaïl Bahri, Hicham Berrada, Antoine Danis, Maïder Fortuné, Ana Maria Gomes, Daphné Hérétakis, Joachim Olender, Clément Postec, Dania Reymond.
Published with the CNAP.
published in June 2019
bilingual edition (English / French), DVD original version, English / French subtitles
