Un plan d'enfer (A Plan of Hell)
Robert Kramer, FR 1986Screenplay: Robert Kramer, Philippe Rigout, Claude Villers; Cinematography: Ramón Suárez; Editing: Christine Aya; Music: Daniel Humair, François Jeanneau, Jean-François Kenny Clark; Cast: Rufus, Christine Amat, Diane Bellego, Pierre Bonzans, Emmanuelle Clove. 35mm, color, 17 min. French with English subtitles*
Des graines dans le vent (Seeds in the Wind)
Robert Kramer, FR 1998Cinematography: Robert Kramer, Maurice Serfaty
DCP, color, 29 min. English/French with French/English subtitles
Maquette (Scale Model)
Robert Kramer, FR 1990Cinematography, Editing: Robert Kramer; Music: Barre Phillips; with: dancers of the dance company Artefact, Geneviève Vincent, Jean-Pierre Giaccobazzi, Daniel Herrero, Simone Komatis, Kasper T. Toeplitz. DCP, color, 61 min. French with English subtitles
Two unfinished films. In Des graines dans le vent, the handful of British workers tramping towards Amsterdam to fight for their rights in the "European March Against Unemployment, Insecurity and Exclusion" look pretty lost. Kramer accompanies the little group, but is overcome with doubt from the beginning: "You shouldn't being doing something like this if you don't want to, Robert." Kramer leaves the group after a week, after being given advice about what isn't working in the film that is still in the process of being made. Maquette is an excursion into the world of dance and other cultural activities in Toulon: "There is a film that I didn't complete. I shot it in Châteauvallon with a dance group called Artefact. A rough cut of it exists entitled Maquette, but that's all I did with it." Un plan d'enfer is Kramer's only production to make use of the Steadicam and was a commission for Société Lyonnaise de Banque. (V.P.)
*Courtesy Cinémathèque française
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