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…

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World Premiere
May 2000
Original Version
Streaminglink, 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

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PCT Cinéma Télévision SA Distribution
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