AFC-related activities

We are pleased to welcome Tom in his migration to the AFC.
Usually, it’s AFC members who knock on the door of the ASC to become members!
Why this attachment to France for a DP who is à la mode because of his work on the films of Clint Eastwood? He started as a gaffer for 18 years with Clint… and DPs Bruce Surtees, Owen Roizman and Jack Green.

I am very honored to sponsor Tom Stern to the AFC. I met him two years ago at Camerimage. I was impressed by his work on Mystic River and Million Dollar Baby. I saw in those films what I found absolutely remarkable in the work of Haskell Wexler, Vilmos Zsigmond or Conrad Hall: the distortion of what could be described as a realistic image.

It was during an evening in Cannes that I had the pleasure and the honor to meet Tom Stern: he was the president of the jury for the Vulcan prize for Technical Artist awarded by the CST, and I was able to spend a few hours talking with him about the business and the responsibilities it engenders.

The 8^th edition of the AFC "Micro Salon" ("micro trade show") was held on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at the Fémis film school in the 18^th district in Paris between 10 AM and 10 PM.
The AFC Micro Salon has been supported by the CNC (National Cinema Center) and the Fémis since its inception. We wish to thank the school’s director, Marc Nicolas, and his team for welcoming us so faithfully in this cinema landmark in the middle of Paris, on the site of the historic Francoeur sound stages.
This year Veronique Cayla, general director of the CNC, and Thierry Frémaux, General Delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, honored us with their presence.

The Annual General Assembly of Imago took place from February 15 to 17, 2008 in Amsterdam. Representatives of the European associations were invited to gather in the Dutch capital on the afternoon of Friday, February 15^th.

The meeting ended the presidency of Andreas Fisher-Hansen (FDF), who had agreed, during an exceptional general assembly in Paris on December 13^th, 2003, to take on the burdensome task of reorganizing Imago.

The IMAGO Board: President Andreas Fischer-Hansen, DFF, Vice-president Tony Costa, AIP, and General Secretary Paul-René Roestad, FNF, had their yearly board meeting in Paris, hosted by AFC in rue Francoeur.

You can now order the first issue of the French-language review Lumières, les Cahiers de l’AFC, which comes with a CD containing movie excerpts, film stills, set photos and other documents.

The price is 15 Euros (CD included) not including mailing costs
The student price is 12 Euros not including mailing costs
Mailing costs are 3 Euros within France, contact us for other country costs
Upon request an invoice is added to the mailing

You can also pick up a copy in Paris at the AFC, 8 rue Francœur - Paris 18ème - FRANCE

Click here to order one or more copies

Below is the table of contents (note that all the texts are in French)

The AFC has just published the Image Charter, designed to re-specify the responsibilities and obligations incumbent upon a Director of Photography. This document will be used as a basis during this period of changing technologies and working conditions.

AFC Image Charter English version

Bogen Imaging France What could be more magical, in films, than the self-blocking articulated arm known as... the magic arm? We are all familiar with it because we use it for setting up our lighting, tripods, joints, stands and other studio accessories developed by Lino Manfrotto. In 1989, Multistand Co, established two years previously by Thierry Martin, became Manfrotto France. The firm specialised in the distribution of a great variety of brands connected with cinema, video and photography and Bogen Imaging France - the new name (…)

At the last two board meetings, one of which was held in late November (just when the last Newsletter came out) and in mid-December, several new active and associate members were admitted and they have come to join us at the AFC: the directors of photography Laurent Brunet, Claude Garnier, Marc Koninckx and François Lartigue.

1 - Definition of the term Director of Photography
2 - Study of the project with the director and production
3 - Defining the technical workflow
4 - Putting together the camera team
5 - Tests and production
6 - Editing and post-production

At one of its meetings prior to the summer, the Board decided to appoint Benjamin Bergery as a consultant member of the AFC.

To say that the 2005 version of the AFC Micro Show was a complete successful is no empty boast !
The fête was going full blast on Thursday March 10^th at the Femis film school.

• At home and cosy by Alain Gauthier

• Roger and Maurice Fellous, seen through the eyes of Georges Lautner
  Georges Lautner talks about the time he spent with his " Uncle Operators ", the new honorary members of the AFC. (Editor’s note)

• Welcome to our new honorary members, by Jean-Jacques Bouhon
  Just a few words to say how happy I am to welcome Roger and Maurice Fellous to our ranks. It brings back memories of the early days of my career.

With the arrival in January of Yves Lafaye, Pascal Poucet and Jean-Louis Vialard, there are now eighty active members. At the start of 2005, I would like to pay homage and warmly thank the active members, associate members and founder members of the AFC. They can be proud of their baby.

• Yves Lafaye introduced by Gérard de Battista

• Pascal Poucet introduced by Robert Alazraki and Christophe Beaucarne

Let’s consider a hypothetical world where all literary output gradually centred on a single nation except for a few residual poles whose limited influence would progressively diminish. We would have to ask ourselves what literature could possibly deserve this exorbitant privilege and, above all, what other literatures would have to be sacrificed. And then imagine what happens when the literature of this nation, carried by its deadly dynamic, reigns supreme: what would be left for it to destroy except itself ?