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POUSSIÈRES D’AMÉRIQUEAmerican <strong>du</strong>stArnaud <strong>de</strong>s PallièresCIfilm d’ouverture / première mondiale / prix renaud victor / prix <strong>de</strong>s médiathèques / prix GNCRFRANCE<strong>2011</strong>Couleur et N&BArchives100’Version originaleCartons en françaisMusiqueMartin WheelerSonJean MalletMontageArnaud <strong>de</strong>sPallièresPro<strong>du</strong>ctionLes films HatariLe Fresnoy-StudioNational <strong>de</strong>s ArtsContemporainsFilmographieDRANCY AVENIR,1997DISNEYLANDMON VIEUX PAYSNATAL, 2002ADIEU, 2004PARC, 2009DIANE WELLINGTON,2010« Ce film est une improvisation. Un journal <strong>de</strong> travail. Un poème un peulong fait <strong>de</strong> morceaux d’autres films, <strong>de</strong> bout <strong>de</strong> phrases, <strong>de</strong> musiqueset <strong>de</strong> sons d’un peu <strong>de</strong> tout. Écrit dans la langue <strong>du</strong> cinéma. Sansdialogues. Sans commentaire. Muet. Mais bavard aussi parce qu’ilraconte beaucoup d’histoires. Une vingtaine. Brèves, infimes et qui misesensemble font ce qu’on appelle la gran<strong>de</strong> histoire. Ça parle d’Amérique.Donc <strong>de</strong> nous. Des morceaux <strong>de</strong> la vie <strong>de</strong> chacun. Un enfant, son père,sa mère, le lapin, le chien, les fleurs, votre enfance, la mienne, la nôtre.Les Indiens, Christophe Colomb, Apollo, la lune. Chaque personnage ditje. C’est le journal intime <strong>de</strong> chacun. L’autobiographie <strong>de</strong> tout le mon<strong>de</strong>... »Voilà comment <strong>de</strong>s Pallières présente son <strong>de</strong>rnier opus, dont DianeWellington (2010), avait déjà donné la métho<strong>de</strong> : montage d’archivesanonymes au service <strong>de</strong> récits collectifs pour engranger, bien plus que<strong>de</strong>s savoirs : <strong>de</strong>s sensations, <strong>de</strong>s émotions, et faire mûrir entre elles <strong>de</strong>sgreffes inédites. Si Gertru<strong>de</strong> Stein, dont il avait fait le Portrait Incompletreste là, en embusca<strong>de</strong>, c’est dans cet art <strong>de</strong> faire tenir les chosesensemble en un fragile monument qui menace sans cesse <strong>de</strong> s’effondrer,nous emportant avec bonheur dans sa chute. (JPR)“This is a logbook. A film which has been improvised. A poem that is slightly toolong and ma<strong>de</strong> from other films parts, bits of sentences, pieces of music and soundsfrom all around. It was written in the language of cinema, without dialogue orcommentary. It is both a silent movie and a wordy one as it relates many stories,twenty or so, short, minor and forming what is called History with a capital H whenput together. It is about America and, therefore, about us. Pieces of everybody’slives put together. A child, his father, his mother, the rabbit, the dog, the flowers,your childhood, mine, ours. Native Americans, Christopher Columbus, Apollo, themoon. Each character says I. It is both anybody’s diary and everybody’s autobiography...”This is how <strong>de</strong>s Pallières has <strong>de</strong>scribed his last opus, whose mo<strong>du</strong>s operandiis somewhat reminiscent of the one used in Diane Wellington (2010): some editingof anonymous footage for the purposes of collective stories, with the aim of first<strong>de</strong>veloping a rare blend of sensations and emotions before gathering someknowledge. Gertru<strong>de</strong> Stein – who is <strong>de</strong>picted in ‘Portrait Incomplet’ – is behind allthis. Her presence is mainly noticeable through that particular art of bringing thingstogether into a fragile monument constantly threatening to collapse, dragging usdown blissfully. (JPR)050

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