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Is Dead - Portrait incomplet de Gertrude Stein


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We discover the work and life of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), an American writer who lived in France for more than half of her life ("... not the half that made me, but the half where I did what I did ..."), through a montage of her autobiographical texts, on images of today mixed with archives of the past.

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Arnaud des Pallières

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By turns evoking, incarnating and calling upon the avant-garde life and work of American writer Gertrude Stein, this masterful film from Arnaud des Pallières is above all an exercise in storytelling, recounted through a collage of luminous selections from her many pieces of writing.


Diving unabashedly into the labour of words, des Pallières lets us hear Stein’s vibrant and vibrating literature—brilliantly brought to life by voice actors Micheline Dax and Michael Lonsdale—which explores a poetic and organic relationship to the world through impressionistic fragments.


Walking a line between documentary portraiture and film essay, Is Dead successfully brings feelings and memories buried within each of us to the surface, winding back the clock through a biography that gradually transforms into a strange journey into the archives of the 20th century.


Originally filmed as an episode of the French television series Un siècle d’écrivain (“A Century of Writers”), this commissioned work represents a creative experiment in what the “small screen” can do; its freedom and eloquence leaving an afterglow of what we may be missing today.



Terence Chotard
Filmmaker

  • Année 2000
  • Pays France
  • Durée 46
  • Producteur Les Films d'Ici
  • Langue French
  • Sous-titres
  • Résumé court The work and life of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), American writer, from her grave at Père-Lachaise.
  • Compositeur
  • Mention festival
  • Feministe equitable
  • Image revue
  • Description revue
  • Lien revue
  • Avertissement
  • Texte bouton revue

By turns evoking, incarnating and calling upon the avant-garde life and work of American writer Gertrude Stein, this masterful film from Arnaud des Pallières is above all an exercise in storytelling, recounted through a collage of luminous selections from her many pieces of writing.


Diving unabashedly into the labour of words, des Pallières lets us hear Stein’s vibrant and vibrating literature—brilliantly brought to life by voice actors Micheline Dax and Michael Lonsdale—which explores a poetic and organic relationship to the world through impressionistic fragments.


Walking a line between documentary portraiture and film essay, Is Dead successfully brings feelings and memories buried within each of us to the surface, winding back the clock through a biography that gradually transforms into a strange journey into the archives of the 20th century.


Originally filmed as an episode of the French television series Un siècle d’écrivain (“A Century of Writers”), this commissioned work represents a creative experiment in what the “small screen” can do; its freedom and eloquence leaving an afterglow of what we may be missing today.



Terence Chotard
Filmmaker

  • Année 2000
  • Pays France
  • Durée 46
  • Producteur Les Films d'Ici
  • Langue French
  • Sous-titres
  • Résumé court The work and life of Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), American writer, from her grave at Père-Lachaise.
  • Compositeur
  • Mention festival
  • Feministe equitable
  • Image revue
  • Description revue
  • Lien revue
  • Avertissement
  • Texte bouton revue

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