Études sur Paris

Paris Paris you know I would eat it wrote André Sauvage An artist close to the avantgardes André Sauvage composed the first great filmed portrait of Paris Its ambitious symphony of a big city marries on the music composed by Jeff Mills the changing rhythm of the Belle Époque Contemporary of the dizzying explorations of Dziga Vertov and Walter Ruttmann Sauvage is less fascinated by speed than by the repertoire of urban mobility attentive to the neighborhoods he crosses always curious about their furtive inhabitants He draws a portrait of Paris in five studies ParisPort NorthSouth the islands of Paris the Little Belt and from the SaintJacques tower to the SainteGeneviève mountain