Ariane Stérin

Quand la grande famille du cinéma rencontre la petite mais beaucoup plus jeune et explosive famille de la musique électro, cela donne un film, Banger, qui éclate comme un pétard dans une nuit de fête qui ne finirait jamais.

A la fin du tournage du dernier film de Claude Lelouch, Chacun sa vie et son intime conviction, Ariane Damain Vergallo a rencontré, pour CW Sonderoptic-Leica, Robert Alazraki, AFC, directeur de la photographie du film, et Berto, son cadreur, pour parler d’optiques évidemment mais pas seulement…

In March 2023, a strike is in full swing in France, disrupting transport and complicating journeys. Claire Mathon, who lives in Paris, must travel every day to the Bry-sur-Marne studios in the distant suburbs, where she is shooting Pablo Agüero’s film Saint-Ex. She has therefore asked the production company – and this will be her only luxury – for a driver to get her there. During this hour-long journey, she sees the sun rise and, for the first time in her life, enjoys the traffic jams that allow her to delay a little the moment when, every day for 47 days, she will enter the famous 1,000m2 studio B5, from which she will not leave until nightfall.

Every summer, in the house near Paris that his grandfather shared with his family, Julien Poupard made a short film with friends as passionate about cinema as he was. His father, a producer of institutional films, looked on that enthusiasm with a favorable eye and gladly provided his son not only with his equipment, but also – and no less important - his encouragement and advice.

En ce mois de mars 2023, la grève bat son plein en France désorganisant les transports et compliquant les trajets. Or, Claire Mathon, qui habite à Paris, doit se rendre chaque jour aux studios de Bry-sur-Marne, en lointaine banlieue où elle tourne le film Saint-Ex, de Pablo Agüero. Elle a donc demandé à la production - et ce sera son seul luxe - un chauffeur pour s’y rendre. Durant cette heure de transport elle voit le jour se lever et, pour la première fois de sa vie, aime les embouteillages qui lui permettent de retarder un peu le moment où, tous les jours durant 47 jours, elle va rentrer dans le fameux studio B5 de mille mètres carrés dont elle ne sortira qu’à la nuit tombée.

« Je n’en ai jamais assez de cette impression de lumière aveuglante et de noir absolu. » Darius Khondji, AFC, ASC, aime l’éblouissement causé par les lumières fortes et, par contraste, les noirs profonds où la lumière s’engouffre et disparaît complètement.

Grenoble is a town in the French Alps surrounded by high mountains that prevent you from ever seeing the horizon. In the cold season, the sun may appear then suddenly disappear several times a day.

Forty years ago, benevolent angels leaned over Leo Hinstin’s cradle, bestowing upon him the privilege of being born into a family of long, brilliant and enlightened bourgeois lineage. As far back as a genealogy-obsessed great-uncle was able to go, he had found a multitude of men whom France could be proud of : Ecole Polytechnique alumni, soldiers, intellectuals.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Bulgaria is one of the most communist countries in the world. The "Russian Big Brother" does not even bother to dispatch an occupation army there as the Bulgarian population fully adheres to the system. Propaganda is beyond effective and one risks one’s life at the mere hint of a protest.