Hubert Nyssen, Portrait en 22 fragments

Marie Mandy & 52/65' — 2002

Behind the shell of Hubert Nyssen, there are many … maybe ten or twelve, who fight maliciously to exist. We have heard of “the Publisher and his double”, revealed through the publication of semi-intimate, semi-mundane professional notebooks from the founder of Editions Actes Sud en Arles. We know less the writer, author of twelve novels and as many collections of poems, children’s books, and other intelligent and enlightened essays. And what do we really know about the beekeeper’s son, the publicist, the Belgian exile in Provence, the translator, the academician, the collector, the amateur photographer, the father and the grandfather, now a publisher at retirement ? This kaleidoscope-shaped film aims to shed light on some of its facets … with the testimonies of Paul Auster, Nancy Huston, Françoise Nyssen and Christine Le Bœuf.

Belgium

Production : Saga Film
Coproduction : Copsi Video Production, CBA, RTBF

Réalisation
Marie Mandy
Scenario
Marie Mandy
DOP
Dominique Smersu
Sound
Alain Prey, Maxime Gavaudan, Céline Deransart, Philippe Sellier, Paul Heymans & Robert Hogg
Image editor
Eric Falconetti
Sound editor
Jean-Jacques Quinet & Damien Defays
Mix
Jean-Jacques Quinet & Damien Defays
Music
Hélène Blazy
Production
Paul Fonteyn, Emmanuel Durand
Image Format
Betacam digitale

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