Tentatives de se décrire

  • Boris Lehman
  • 2005
  • Canada; Belgium
  • 165 minutes
  • French

Attempting to describe oneself would result in a film about representation. How can one describe oneself and the other through film? The camera as a mirror or third eye. At the outset, an epistolary film and a journey conceived as a collage, between documentary and fiction. The outcome is a portrait of Boris Lehman between 1989 and 1995, a second part of the project Babel. To keep on and on going round oneself – clearly impossible but what else to do? I come back to myself as in a nostalgic dream each time filming what no longer exists what has died in me already the past and shadow of myself I keep in filming again and again to declare that I film not what I forgot to include but what didn’t yet exist. ( Boris Lehman)

  • Production : Dovfilm; Mainfilm; Cocagne
  • Distribution : Dovfilm
  • Editing : Daniel de Valck; Ariane Mellet
  • Sound : Henri Morelle; Pierre Bertrand; Jacques Dapoz
  • Photography : Guy Borremans; Jacques Deluc; Antoine-Marie Meert