Martin in Paris
Year
1987
2024
Country
Germany
Technique
Super-8
Length
5′
Martin Zawadzki with a friend in Paris in 1987, sitting on a green terrace, talking, drinking wine, eating baguette with camembert.
The movie has no original soundtrack, only music by Sun Ra (The Wind speaks). It lay in a box of Super 8 material for 37 years. It was only after Martin’s death on 1 April 2024 that I had it digitized and edited a little. I can’t remember the exact idea. A woman and a man sitting in a garden. Then a zoom open the picture and the two of them are in the middle of a high-rise estate in Clichy-sous-Bois.
At the end, I’m standing on an elevated terrace and throwing a firework onto flagstones. It’s July 14, the day of the 1789 revolution.