catalogue 2003 en .pdf - Festival international du documentaire de ...

OPENING NICHT
Certainly, the documentary records what it actually sees, but, in so
doing, it already shows a particular choice, angle, or perspective, i.e.,
an interpretation. Interpreting the world: that is the condition for our
dignity. It is perhaps the only one that remains for us, as Brecht said.
It consists in understanding our world, grasping it, but also,
especially, it is also a chance to multiply it and diffract it according to
each person’s intuitions and inventive generosity. Interpreting implies
many possibilities. But who grasps meaning more acutely than an
actor, since, for an actor, interpretation means incarnation As
messenger and guide, the actor’s role is to make gestures and
movements that shed new light on the memory of the past, and
confuse the tangibility of presence with the impalpability of the
intelligible, making intelligence an emotion. It is for this unrivalled
purpose that we have chosen to place this 14th festival under the
auspices of one of today’s most remarkable living actors: Bruno
Ganz.
In German, “Ganz” means all, entirely. No-one doubts that Bruno
Ganz is a complete actor, but this is not what Norbert Wiedmer
intends to show in his film, Behind me, trois ans avec Bruno Ganz
[Three years with Bruno Ganz]. The film is more about passion for
work, respect for the written text, continually doing takes again, to
chance verging on the accidents constructed by the authors, to
convey the immense range of our experience. The choice of
Goethe’s Faust, the role in which Wiedmer follows Ganz, is probably
not accidental, since Goethe himself revised and reworked his own
text, to produce a monumental work that no troupe has ever played
in its entirety. A lust for life combined with an equally insatiable
appetite for knowledge, a powerful talent heightened by the fragility
of his conscience: that is the well-known subject of Faust. And it
seems that it is also a vast project to which the documentary is no
stranger: “I am too old to be content with play, Too young to be
without desire”. J.-P. Rehm
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