petits papiers

Flirting with a Comet

It's been a while since i recommended  a film these days. I guess everything i saw this year only left me a lukewarm feeling . Until i saw THIS.  Man On  Wire is a brilliant documentary about a brilliant man, fixated on an unthinkable idea: walking on a thin rope connecting the two towers of the World Trade center. The odds were high, but the man was driven.
It is impossible to stay unbiased by this 20th century's epic to me. Impossible.
Go see it!
Le Club des films a recommander est de retour sur les Petits Papiers! attention: a ne pas ignorer, surtout en periode de morosite grimpante! je suis sortie de la salle les jambes en coton, les yeux embuees et le coeur plein de legerete... une histoire extraordinaire de funambule avec un gros, gros reve; marcher sur sur un fil reliant les plus hautes tours de la terre. Voir bande annonce ci-dessus, et pour les non-anglophones, un lien qui devrait vous mettre l'eau a la bouche : Article du Figaro sur le film Man on Wire, en francais: Le Funambule.

Trick me please

Last year i discovered the great potential of puddles. There is nothing more exciting for a photographer than having a natural "special effect" happening right before his eyes. It has been especially satisfying for me since i work strictly on film and hardly use any artifact in the process.
I don't know why duality has been such a latent element in the aesthetics of contemporary art in general, but the mirror effect is highly satisfactory to me, somehow comforting. I really love it.

 

La flaque geante apres l'orage possede souvent des histoires insoupconnees...
C'est le paradis du photographe lorsque le mirroir de la realite s'offre a lui aussi genereusement.
Je ne saurais expliquer pourquoi les effets de mirroirs me suivent tellement dernierement, mais disont qu'ils m'apportent a la fois un oeil contemplateur et reconfortant. Ce dont j'ai tres besoin en ce moment ;-)