The Staircase Wall

The Staircase Wall

Space is the time you need to go to someone else...

2023 · 4 min · Documentary

An experiment in activity, dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard and assembled in the immediate wake of his death on September 13, 2022. The only known footage of Marcel Proust is repeated through a sequence of digital abstractions and accompanied by the music of Gabriel Fauré, followed by video footage shot on iPhone 12 mini between North Carolina and New York City, 2021-2022.

Directed by Lee A. Ritchie

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Marcel Proust Self (archive footage)
Jean-Luc Godard Self (voice, archive footage)

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