When evoking schoolboy life, what do we remember? The film is a story of the Stanislas secondary school of Wissembourg.
It has changed a lot since it was founded at the time of Napoleon. And it has been through, as in the rest of Alsace, three Franco-German wars. Stories, funny and tender testimonies, archive and the everyday life.
technical data :
duration
100 minutes
camera
Jean-Claude Durmeyer, Philippe Strasbach and the students of the high school
sound
Eric Michel and the students of the high school
editing
Daniel Coche and Damien Fritsch
mixing
Gilles Guigue
music
interpreted by Jean-Jacques Scherrer
a coproduction
dora films / France 3 Alsace
participation
Centre National de la Cinématographie
grants
Académie de Strasbourg - ACMISA - Agence culturelle d'Alsace - Conseil Général du Bas-Rhin - Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles - Procirep - Ville de Wissembourg - Caisse d'Epargne d'Alsace - Association des Chefs d'Entreprises de Wissembourg.
Anne is an artist and a painter, but Anne has stopped to paint. Anne decides to go back to work again and the director decides to film her return to work, her evolution.
"Six years ago, my wife announced me that I was going to become a father. I took my camera and I filmed for the next nine months, toward offthefearwithin me."
L'absente, c'est la mère disparue du réalisateur, une figure qu'il convoque en interrogeant la mémoire de ses trois sœurs et de son frère aînés, nés de quatre pères différents et qui n'ont pas grandi ensemble.
“I see neither forms nor light, nothing, absolutely nothing. But I’m not in the dark, I see nothing“, says Jean-Michel, who is blind from birth, like the other characters in the film.
