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Mots pour maux

Imprisonned Words
Dominique Comtat
2005 France 35 minutes French

In places where people are locked up, words take on a different meaning. The members of the Film and Video Workshop in the Marseilles Penitentiary Centre have chosen eight words to convey the image and reality of the “inside” in order to bring to light a sense that those on the “outside” have forgotten. “Walk”, “horizon”, “time”, “cell” and “canteen”… all ordinary, everyday words that take on wishful, humorous or bitter definitions.

Dominique Comtat

Dominique Comtat est cinéaste,

enseignant de cinéma, photographe et cadreur.

Il a réalisé, notamment :

Blue Lester, animation, 1979

Geneve, doc., 1982

Imagie, animation/expérimental, 1982

Courir les rues, animation, 1988

Trois ans de vacances, doc., 1994

Les Paradoxes du photographe, cm, 1998

Quelques notes sur l’art de la mémoire,

expérimental, 30 mn, 2003

Production :
Lieux fictifs
Distribution :
Lieux fictifs
Editing :
Dominique Comtat
Photography :
Dominique Comtat

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