La Mounine ou note après coup sur un ciel de Provence

La Mounine oder Bemerkung zu einem Himmel in der Provence

Switzerland, April 1997
FILM, Documentary, 81 min.

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directed by
Aline Horisberger
Written by
Aline Horisberger
Status
In distribution

One April morning in 1941, on the way from Marseilles to Aix-en-Provence, Francis Ponge is gripped by a strong emotion at the sight of the sky, at a place called La Mounine. On returning to his “language laboratory” in Roanne, he attempts to give expression to this “aesthetic sob”. The film builds on his poem, in the manner of a journal of the act of creation with a minute accumulation of detail: meetings, discoveries, doubts and inquiries. We follow in Ponge's footsteps to La Mounine and other nearby places including the Milles tile works, which served as a deportation camp between 1939 and 1943, the coalmines of Gardanne, fields of lavender, and a painter’s workshop. It contains daily observations of the sky, and notes even the most trivial encounters en route.

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World Premiere
April 1997
Original Version
French,  colour, 16mm, 81 min.
Production
Hoba Productions
Producer
directed by
Aline Horisberger
Written by
Aline Horisberger (based on a poem by Francis Ponge)
Cinemato­graphy
Aline Horisberger, Dominique Comtat
Editing
Aline Horisberger
Music
Igor Stravinsky
Location Sound Mix
Aline Horisberger

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