Fines. Gérard Bloncourt, the “rebel of the image” in cinema

Monday 22 April at 8:30 pm, Cinema l’Atelier presents a cinematic encounter (one-time price €5.50) about the documentary “Gérard Bloncourt – Le francshooter de l’image”. The meeting will be hosted by Sylvia Voser, director, and Margot de Margaret, storyteller and author. This film is a portrait of photographer Gerald Bloncourt (1926-2018). As a young man, in 1946, due to his political commitments, he was expelled from his native Haiti to France. Gerald Bloncourt then became the great photographer of workers’ struggles, of Portuguese immigrants camped in the slums around Paris, of the Polisario Front’s struggle for independence in southern Morocco… He also became a witness to daily life, of children playing in the streets. The streets, the stars of song and cinema, the lovers walking. When Margot prepared Dr. Marguerite exhibited at an exhibition by Gérald Bloncourt at the Musée Champollion in 2017. Director Sylvia Vosser was impressed and impressed by the quality of these images. She decided to take advantage of her visit to Figeac to make a film about him. Bloncourt, a world-famous artist, has a colorful personality, full of humor and conviction. Viewers will discover the relationship between Bloncourt and Marguerite, which the director takes as a starting point for her film to help us discover a story of friendship, the history of France, conflicts and battles, and above all, to present it to as many people as possible. Possible is a tremendous artist who always put himself on the side of the people. “Photography is not written with a capital P, photography is written with many small P’s and this image is photojournalism. That means a very specific image, to capture an event, translate it to the nearest second and give an image that has to convey that event that has to be interpreted So share and convey anger, also convey admiration and friendship and everything the image allows you to do,” said Gérard Bloncourt. The photos taken by Gérard Bloncourt are currently on display in the media library and will be in the cinema lobby on the day of the screening.