Paris Episodes
Friedl vom Gröller Paris Episoden, AT, 2018, 23', 16 mm
Paris Episodes consists of portraits and fragmented views of the city. Individuals and pairs of people gladly appear before the camera in situations they themselves selected, with some of them returning to appear in several episodes. The development indicated by their return finds its counterpart in routine gestures polished by time, as well as the stasis of political situations: a somewhat longer sequence in the film shows a demonstration against deportations, including the unavoidable presence of the CRS.
The humorous and friendly opening critique by David Sirois, which frames this otherwise silent film, is an obvious reference to Chronicle of a Summer (1960) by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin. However, it also presents a kind of didactic instruction: It is not the single self-contained episodes that count, but rather their multi-faceted interconnections to one another. (Vrääth Öhner)
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