Chanson de gestes
In a poetic fashion, a game around daily gestures. Spontaneous choreography of the hands, offices where newspapers are cut, rooms where one paints, where one undresses. A hand passed through his hair, a wrist twirling on an archer, an obsessed search.
| Director | Guy Gilles |
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Stories told through gestures, furtively captured in their natural environment. Are we watching the history of the French people? Award-winning yet still relatively unknown filmmaker Guy Gilles, equally at ease in fictional features as in documentaries, gave us this visual research study on the unspoken mores of French society through its habits and day-to-day movements. Gilles’ camera, capturing methodically placed frames that seem to pay homage to the legendary Bresson, reveals with poetic ease the evocative power of body language and the codes through which our most banal actions communicate. Chanson de gestes is a wordless film with a lot to say.
Frédéric Savard
Archivist and programmer
- Année 1965
- Pays France
- Durée 20
- Producteur Les Films du jeudi
- Langue Without dialogue
- Sous-titres
- Résumé court Throughout Paris and the countryside, the film captures familiar gestures of the passers-by, artisans, workers, beggars and peasants.
- Compositeur
- Mention festival
- Feministe equitable
- Image revue
- Description revue
- Lien revue
- Avertissement
- Texte bouton revue
Stories told through gestures, furtively captured in their natural environment. Are we watching the history of the French people? Award-winning yet still relatively unknown filmmaker Guy Gilles, equally at ease in fictional features as in documentaries, gave us this visual research study on the unspoken mores of French society through its habits and day-to-day movements. Gilles’ camera, capturing methodically placed frames that seem to pay homage to the legendary Bresson, reveals with poetic ease the evocative power of body language and the codes through which our most banal actions communicate. Chanson de gestes is a wordless film with a lot to say.
Frédéric Savard
Archivist and programmer
- Année 1965
- Pays France
- Durée 20
- Producteur Les Films du jeudi
- Langue Without dialogue
- Sous-titres
- Résumé court Throughout Paris and the countryside, the film captures familiar gestures of the passers-by, artisans, workers, beggars and peasants.
- Compositeur
- Mention festival
- Feministe equitable
- Image revue
- Description revue
- Lien revue
- Avertissement
- Texte bouton revue
