Autour de Pinget

Switzerland / Belgium, May 2000
FILM, Documentary, 52 min.

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directed by
Ursula Meier
Written by
Ursula Meier
Status
In distribution

Inspired by one of Robert Pinget’s books (Autour de Mortin) this documentary film adopts the style of a police inquiry focusing on the author himself, complete with false clues, contradictions and various errors. A series of contradictory interrogations concerning the deeds and behaviour of a certain Mortin, who is himself an author and who is writing a book about a certain Mortier. The film constantly questions the relationship of events with reality: What is imaginary and what is autobiographical? It takes us to locations from the writer’s past which have been transformed in his books – the Savoy region, Touraine – revealing certain secrets…

credits

World Premiere
May 2000
Original Version
French,  colour, Digi Beta, 52 min.
Production
PCT Cinéma Télévision SA, Need Productions, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse
Producer
directed by
Ursula Meier
Written by
Ursula Meier
Cinemato­graphy
Hans Meier
Editing
Julie Brenta
Location Sound Mix
Etienne Curchod

Worldwide Distribution

Switzerland
PCT Cinéma Télévision SA Distribution

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