Une Biographie / a Biography, A Biography

Alexander Schellow

France, 2017, Black and white, 6’

How can a person with Alzheimer’s still recount their own life? When words have gone, all that is left are the sensations and sounds registered by the body. In the communal room of a clinic, music provokes an old lady in a wheelchair to dance. Entirely drawn and animated from memory with Indian ink on transparent paper, Une Biographie continues Alexander Schellow’s artistic work: a practice of drawing rooted in a performative process, based on the “reconstruction of memories”. (FM)

Technical sheet

  • Original version:
    no dialogue.
  • Script & photography:
    Alexander Schellow.
  • Editing:
    Jean-Laurent Csinidis
  • Sound:
    Nans Mangeard.
  • Production:
    Jean-Laurent Csinidis (Films de Force Majeure), Schellow Alexander (Index.  lm).
  • Distribution:
    Nunes Jérôme (Films de Force Majeure).