François Reichenbach

François Reichenbach

François Reichenbach has traveled the world, capturing the singular energy of places and peoples. His short films, produced by Pierre Braunberger and shot between the 1950s and 1960s, are a mosaic of sensibilities and points of view, at the crossroads of avant-garde, poetic essay and documentary portrait. Three of his films – Impressions de New York (1956), Houston Texas (1956) and L’Américain se détend (1958) – reveal the United States through the lens of the unusual and the contrast. Novembre à Paris (1956) and Le Paris des photographes (1962) respond to each other, between an impressionistic portrait of the city and a self reflective documentary gaze. Illuminations and Artifices (1963), followed by Aurora (1966), combine visual experimentation and social activism.