Alix's Photos

Alix's Photos is the last film by a cult filmmaker of the French New Wave and a short organum for the materialism of his film image in which an artist Alix Clio-Roubaud reveal to a young man, a filmmaker's son Boris, mysteries of her photos. Multiple layering of (Alix's) images in (Eustache's) images is initiation to the film's vertigo of gestural and vocal voyeurism. "You can doubt the fact that my name is Alix; you can doubt the fact that these photos are mine; but there is no doubt that the woman who speaks, and the man to whom she speaks exist, or did exist. Why? Because you see them, not as a painting, but as images we call photographic." (Alix Clio-Roubaud's message to the audience, 1952-1983)