"Are these pictures you've made recently?" "Yes, recently." "They aren't like your usual work." "Maybe not." "It's an old film negative I took from my mother." "It's a picture she took of me as a child." "That's me." "Don't you recognize me?" "In any case, you know that the only real pictures are childhood photos." "What is this picture?" "It's an eminent Victorian in a hollywood bed." "There's a special effect here..." "The bed appears twice." "Yes, I made the bed even more hollywood-ish by doubling it." "I prolonged it, to show this curve." "To make it even more victorian." "It was taken in London, in a hotel room." "And who is this person?" "My husband." "It was taken in London?" "In London, in january." "At night, as you can see." "This is my friend of mine." "Whom I photographed here in Paris, nearby actually." "I took off the part I wasn't interested in." "This person is also in a bed?" "No, he was layed back in a couch." "Layed back..." "But he seems floating in a bathtub, no?" "Yes, yes." "In the water, in a pool." "He holds a glass of tequila." "I gave him some..." "In order for him to relax." "It worked just a little bit, actually." "I have never seen this one." "This was taken more or less a year ago..." "In Montfort I'Amaury." "Actually I wasn't the one who took the picture." "But I'm the one who processed it like this." "It's always interesting to process other people's photographs." "What about this part?" "Did you cover part of the negative?" "No I didn't, the negative ends somewhere here." "Here I didn't expose it, and here I used a light pencil." "Do you recognize me?" "Is this a person?" "A painting?" "It's not a painting, it's a real man." "He wasn't naked, even though the picture suggests otherwise." "He's perfect like this, isn't he?" "Yes, yes." "Is this picture called "vertigo"?" "Yes well, it's called like this for anecdotic reasons." "Because I saw the film after..." "I took the picture, well it was the same afternoon but.." "It isn't very related, even though I was..." "I suffered from vertigo while taking it." "I was quite drunk." "This bottle is almost empty." "It's a very strange story." "The story of the shooting of the picture is quite special." "Would you mind telling me?" "It's quite obscene." "I was..." "In a position..." "An embarassing situation with a friend." "Who..." "I lit a cigarette, and he told me..." ""You're lighting a cigarette now, like an Amsterdam whore..."" "And I say "Yes, why not?"" ""And I'm also going to take a picture."" "And so I took this picture." "And it was really hot, I tried to show this with..." "With this clumsy coloration." "Clumsy..." "A picture can be personally pornographic while being also..." "Publically decent." "Wouldn't you say so?" "This is my father." "Where is this?" "Between Washington and New York, on the road." "This was one and a half years ago." "I took it because I realized it was..." "The way I saw my father..." "Almost all of my childhood, as we travelled..." "While driving, I always saw him from the back." "I saw his eyes only through the mirror." "I mostly saw his big hands on the wheel." "I trusted him." "Therefore it's a picture..." "I mean..." "It's a family picture, a sentimental picture." "A childhood memory." "But it's a childhood memory that isn't in childhood pictures..." "That's why I reproduced it." "I mean re-photographing a memory I had." "This isn't a family picture." "It's in Corsica." "It's a pseudo-sunset." "The sunset isn't real." "The sun wasn't setting, it's here." "The light beams." "What I did was..." "By artificial means..." "I set it - in a way - since I created a sunset." "In color." "It was fun to fake it, to change its position." "By showing it has set through the colors." "Even though it's here." "What's this?" "That's part of a series, it's called "The Last Room"." "It's the last bed I used, in my parent's room." "It's my last bed, at my parents'." "The last room, to put it simply." "The last darkroom as well." "If you look closely..." "The light on the body..." "Isn't coming from the light source you see here." "This light is strange..." "Not really..." "It is artificial?" "No, it's a lamp here, on the bedside table." "Well it's a suicidal picture, in a way..." "It's a body that is..." "Mine, I suppose." "But glorious..." "And dead..." "I mean..." "Dead but glorious." "It's also a rather morbid picture..." "So I've been told." "It's deliberately morbid." "How can it be artificial..." "Since it's about death and..." "The entire photo fights against death." "Against time, against break-ups..." "Against things we'll never see again..." "Anyhow, that's not important." "Unlike the pictures." "Where is this?" "It's in London." "The same hotel room as before." "The same bed, of which we can't see the..." "The convolutions anymore." "What I liked is..." "The contrast between this extraordinarily serious, studious person..." "And the idleness..." "Of the same man..." "Sitting..." "Unoccupied..." "Waiting for I don't know what..." "Which isn't part of his official, public image." "What I really liked was the contrast between this incredible dignity..." "Of his reading position..." "And this sort of idleness, waiting for something." "Of the same person." "Is that you?" "Oh, you shouldn't ask questions like this." "Whether it's me or not..." "All the pictures are me." "But yes, here that's me." "I think I was very stoned." "I also was in New York at that time." "Not the same year, by the way." "I simply... just..." "I countertyped this picture." "And then I superimposed it..." "With a page I photographed in a diary." "Of your diary?" "But why did you..." "Photograph the picture and didn't take the film negative?" "In order to have a photograph..." "That's even more photographic than the photograph itself." "Further away from reality, than it already is." "To really show it's a photograph." "And not reality, and even less than reality..." "And a lot further than reality." "You don't like that one, do you?" "I find it strange." "Paris?" "This is Paris." "In the 17th district." "And..." "Is there a trick?" "There's no trick, it's only sort of faded." "It's colored, it's colored..." "That's not part of the picture." "It's colored with yellow here." "Yes, it's my watch." "The one I have around my neck right now." "But why taking a picture like this?" "It's a still life." "Still life pictures are vanities." "Vanities in the baroque sense..." "Things that are futile, empty, abandoned..." "Perishable." "That will disappear." "And this one?" "This is in Corsica, it's a man whom I loved very much." "I photographed him in a field..." "Which he owned in a certain way..." "It's land that..." "That was his heritage from his uncle in Corsica." "It's a picture taken 5 or 6 years ago." "I particularly like the sun in the tree over here." "And this man, standing straight in front of the tree." "I took it because that's kind of his empire." "When seeing him there, I told myself that..." "That this land is his own, and he's standing there..." "I've always envied that - people who have a land, a place..." "A belonging." "I've never had that..." "I also loved him for this, actually..." "Therefore it's a sentimental picture." "That's why you took it, because he was there..." "Well no, there's no real explanation for this..." "It's just a sentimental picture..." "All pictures are sentimental." "What do you think about it?" "I don't know." "You never know." "Never mind." "It's in London." "That's more recent." "It's in a pub in London." "In the day, we were having lunch." "A very British pub." "I really like pubs." "Their... sort of darkness..." "At that time I didn't photograph myself yet..." "I left my spot empty, indicated in the pictures." "This empty seat is mine." "They're two men I knew." "I lived with this man with the blurry face..." "The other..." "Is a friend." "He still is, by the way." "That's one of the first pictures where I put white inside..." "Inside the picture itself..." "I really enjoyed it." "I also liked the mouvement of one the characters." "It's the first picture on which I made the outlines blurry." "Very blurry." "But only to let this white in." "The white of the frame, inside the picture itself." "It's very London-ish, isn't it?" "I've never been." "That's true." "Where is this window?" "Where do you think?" "The order, the greenery, the grass..." "The fields, the trees.." "It's Britain..." "Britain..." "The heart of civilization." "It seemed to me..." "Strangely I took this picture while I wasn't feeling well..." "When I wasn't feeling well, I took very ordered pictures." "Very composed, with this..." "There's a little string." "A little string of a roller blind, ready cover the whole image." "So you took this picture to show something of Britain?" "Yes, to show what I imagined to be the essence of Britain..." "A sort of orthogonality which isn't british at all..." "But which could be..." "It could be..." "With this wall containing these trees..." "With this way of..." "This very british shyness, this very british grayness..." "This calmness, this british distance..." "This big distance, so gentle and british." "Eminently british." "I'm quite proud of this one." "It's a break-up picture." "It was taken in Venice, in rather dramatic circumstances." "It's the suit, tie and shoes of a man I loved." "In an apartment in Venice where we stayed." "My shoes nearby, not at all aligned with his." "That still aren't aligned, even less than before." "That are the only element of disorder in the picture." "And this colored shade..." "It's a picture I sent him as a break-up letter in a way." "An ironic picture also." "Don't you think so?" "Ironic?" "I don't know." "This one is strange..." "I don't like it very much..." "It's a field in Corsica with..." "A superimposed man in a bed in Aix-en-Provence..." "The whole thing re-worked in Paris..." "Already stained by humidity and weather." "It's a juxtaposition of a man..." "Here below is a man in his bed..." "Photographed in Aix-en-Provence, a man I really loved." "And a Corsica landcsape." "Just like before, the sun through the tree." "It's not the same tree as before, but it's the same man." "The same garage in Montfort I'Amaury, close to Ravel's house." "I went on vacation there last year." "That's done with a light pencil, and that's entirely imagined." "I like to do that..." "Didn't you cover the negative?" "No, the negative ends here." "I actually printed this..." "Then I prolonged the picture..." "With imaginary lines, on the top and the bottom." "Then in the middle, all this black part." "All with the light pencil." "Do you recognize me?" "Yes." "And my two friends?" "No, I don't know them..." "I'm sure you've seen them here before." "The real version of this picture, is this one." ""Eric's new boots"" "It's a guy who'd follow me around surprinsingly..." "Without any warning..." "Without me wanting him to, in New York." "I didn't like him very much..." "He'd come to New York all dressed in white..." "With clothes he'd bought for the occasion..." "And boots very..." "Which he was proud of..." "Which must've cost a great deal of money..." "He photographed everything in New York." "So I was very happy to only photograph..." "His trousers, his boots, the sidewalk, and this car." "I really liked that, and..." "Also what I liked was..." "To blur the whole picture, except the upper outline." "What's that?" "It's beautiful." "It's a sunrise on Fès." "I went to Fès in April..." "And people told me "Did you take pictures?" "!"" "I say "Sure, here's a great sunrise on Fès"!" "And I show them..." "And they're a little bit surprised..." "It is Fès, that's obvious..." "Fès is here..." "There's the brightness of a lamp, but..." "No, it's not a lamp..." "There's Fès..." "And there's some brightness..." "Those two things together can make a picture..." "Can make a picture...!" "Two heterogenous things can make a picture together..." "Like a sunrise in Fès." "I seduced someone with this picture." "I send it to him..." "He fell in love instantly with the picture..." "He's also a photographer." "He felt close to it, especially for this." "The end." "That's all." "I want to thank (...) For their help." "J.E."