Lucien Clergue

About Time (1985)

Film Essay based on "And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos" by John Berger. ...

La forêt calcinée (1971)

One summer in Var, fires ravaged the pine forests. Lucien Clergue wanted to capture the beauty and the sadness of these forests and these charred trees. ...

On the Road to Camardie (1971)

Camargue, south of France. In the middle of the swamps, birds and bulls are the only inhabitants in one of the last surviving wildernesses in France. ...

Sables (1969)

Sand, wind, water and sun ballet on the beaches of Camargue. ...

Delta de sel (1968)

Lucien Clergue observes the formation of salt in a crust or in a filament on the surface of the water and follows the slightest movements, the slightest shudders of the Camargue marshes. ...

Mario Prassinos (1968)

A documentary about the painter Mario Prassinos. Taking his inspiration from nature, particularly in the Alpilles region, this artist's approach is to capture the hostility of that world and convey it on his canvases. ...

Lighthouse (1967)

Abstract portrait of a lighthouse and its lenses, set to Beethoven's Grand Fugue. ...

Le drame du taureau (1966)

This short uses a text by the Spanish writer Garcia Lorca to document the tragic fate of an animal in the cruel arena sport of bullfighting. ...

Linares (1966)

A seventeen-year-old Spanish bullfighter needs to win to ensure his future career. ...

Dans Arles où sont les Alyscamps (1966)

Today the term Alyscamps is associated with a famous promenade, Lucien Clergue explains its origin. ...

Michel Tournier (1983)