Daniel Pommereulle

Daniel Pommereulle passed away in December 2003 leaving a very diverse and complexe but also peculiar and premonitory work According to Alain Jouffroys phrase he was associated to the Objectors les Objecteurs Despite some important exhibitions Fin de siècle presented in 1975 at National Center for Contemporary Art Georges Pompidou or the retrospective exhibitions at the Dole and Belfort museums in 1991 and a growing aura this work certainly one of the most importants of the second half of the 20th century in France remains unknown and secret From the 1980s to the 1990s he concentrates on the transparency theme with layouts of glass paper and steel As an actor he started with Eric Rohmers La Collectionneuse in 1967 and played in a dozen of movies among which François Truffaus La mariée était en noir The Bride Wore Black JeanLuc Godards WeekEnd and Les Idoles by MarcO are noteworthy In 1972 he takes part in La Cicatrice Intérieure The Inner Scar by Philippe Garrel whom hell join again 27 years later for Le Vent de la nuitNight WindAs a film director One More Time 1967 and ViteFast 1969 are the most noticeable movies for which he successively created a suicide machine and shot sequences through a telephoto lens or a telescope leading to an apology of the desert and the planet Saturn