J'ai retrouvé Christian B.

Trying to describe oneself is a movie about representation. How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the camera as mirror and third eye. At first, a collage-like combination of letter-writing, investigation and journey, something between documentary and feature film. Finally, a portrait of Boris Lehman from 1989 to 1995, part II of BABEL.

Trying to Describe Oneself

From his diary, filmed over ten years, filmmaker Alain Cavalier invites us to a meditation on old age, weakness and death. Made of moments of life, fragments of images, this film composes a mosaic where the spectator is invited to also find his place by himself...

Le filmeur

Christian Boltanski started exhibiting in Germany in the early 1970s and has today gained worldwide recognition for his art. He talks of his true and possible lives, of humanism, religion and utopia, and explains his next art project.