Directing
Marcelle Thirache
Ivry-sur-Seine, France
Born in 1946, in Ivry-Sur-Seine. She begins with the practice of photography and exhibits her work as soon as 1978. First, her discovery of Marguerite Duras with the dissociation between sounds and images, and then the films of Germaine Dulac, foster a growing interest for cinema and finally lead her to choose the Super-8 in 1982. In 1987 she shows her films to yann beauvais and Miles McKane. In 1984, she develops a peculiar skill consisting in hand painting directly on a Super-8 filmstrip. To complete this cinematographic practice, she starts classical painting in 1999.
Acting credits
Initial situation: models were invited to participate in their portrait by the contribution of personal objects and a great freedom of expression before the camera. This initial situation was conceived by Catherine Rebois. Graffon: I propose to film in a fragmented way these sessions of pose. Participants agree to be filmed at the same time they are photographed. Deliberately sharpened shift between an initial situation in its own duration and its filmic recording. The sequence of photographic shooting sessions is shattered.
Portraiture
1993
NRCinexpérimentaux is a series of documentaries on experimental filmmakers, produced and directed by Michel Amarger and Frédérique Devaux. N°8 is dedicated to the most important European cooperative Light Cone created in 1982 in Paris.
Cinexpérimentaux #8: Cooperative Light Cone
2008
No synopsis available yet.
Paroles d'artistes
2003
Behind the camera
Movements of the camera on shiny, white and colored paper, and Indian ink.
Médiation
1999
NRCamera movements on a pine (“Songshù” in Chinese) at dusk when the light is so soft. Film with nuanced hues and Chinese painting graphics.
Songshu
1996
NRSuper 8mm / color / silent / 1S / 3' 00
Big Band
2001
Film made entirely from slides. Images of bodies distorted by overlays, filters... leading to highly abstract shots... fantasies?... eroticism?...
S......ELLE
1990
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Air qui erre
1989
A film shot in London which I then painted on.
Big Ben
2011
Experimental, Super 8
Éclats
1990
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Impressions
1995
Film painted directly on the film strip.
Abstraction 2
1994
No synopsis available yet.
Morgane River
2010
A plane tree filmed from my window on a day with blue sky, onto which I applied ink.
L’arbre bleu
2001
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Sans titres
1995
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Monodie parsemée
1988
NRGraphic film. Intersecting lines. An exploration of visibility, some sequences are barely perceptible, disappear, then reappear. Lines, ruptures, erasures... But a set of lines moving together can also create a ballet. A film to sit back and watch time pass... and time has its own rhythm... suspended time... seconds of eternity.
Chorégraphie
1990
NRA nod to Germaine Dulac. I filmed brass discs with camera movements. The discs deform and create new shapes; sometimes they glimpse each other, overlapping to create abstract forms. The sound is computer-generated.
Disque 651
2000
No synopsis available yet.
Fenice
2003
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Monet is Monet
1986
NRA film by Marcelle Thirache
Étude pour arbre seul
1999
No synopsis available yet.
La forêt fugitive
2010
NRNo synopsis available yet.
À la recherches des Amazones
1986
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Narcisse et Lilas
1988
NRNo synopsis available yet.
S......elle
1990
No synopsis available yet.
Palme d'or
1993
NRThe filmed object is a magnetic tape placed on pieces of mirrors. The whole film is based on the camera movements that are played with light, on the meanders of the magnetic strip. Precise and wild film with very tight framing. Abstract film. Visual music or philosophical film?... Chaos or Plato's cave?...
Trois fantaisies tragiques
1992