PhilippeAlain Michaud le réel traversé par la fiction

To be in Venice and see the architecture of New York to perceive in a painting by Tintoretto the birth of animated images to look at the burlesque Cretinetti as the ancestor of montage so many shifts displacements and striking telescopings that PhilippeAlain Michaud proposes in this film dedicated to him To follow this art historian curator of the cinema collections at the Centre Pompidou is to go from the oriental carpet to the film or from the first fireworks to the cinema And everywhere the animation of the images projections of Antony McCall or of Paul Sharits Column without end of Brancusi Pasolinis Accatone everything moves Under the tutelage of Aby Warburg the great art historian of the early twentieth century precursor of iconology and image comparison to whom PhilippeAlain Michaud was the first in France to devote an important essay eleven images are placed on the table to describe the singular journey of this art historian