• Director(s):

    FLEISCHER (ALAIN)

  • Producer(s):

    GLORIA FILMS PRODUCTION, ARTE FRANCE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2003

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV

Film-director Atom Egoyan straddles several different cultures: born to Armenian parents in Cairo in 1960, he has lived in Canada since he was three.

Quite a few visual artists have tried their hand at film-making (Andy Warhol and Michael Snow and, more recently, Anselm Kiefer, Rebecca Horn, Robert Longo, Christian Boltnaski spring to mind), but not many film-makers also express themselves through the medium of visual art.
Atom Egoyan is an important professional film director who regularly exhibits works of notable originality in contemporary art spaces. In this film, he explains how his work as a visual artist fits in with what appears from the outside to be a very strong identification with his profession as film-maker and the world of professional cinema. Is it possible to be a professional film-maker and a professional artist at the same time? It sometimes seems as if cinema, the art form of the 20th century, overshadows and circumscribes other creative disciplines like a sort of superego.
This documentary includes interviews with Michael Snow, CCMC and Eve Egoyan, and features works by Valérie Mréjen and Alan Poon.