Un plan d’enfer (A Plan of Hell)/ Des graines dans le vent (Seeds in the Wind)/ Maquette (Scale Model)

Un plan d'enfer (A Plan of Hell)
Robert Kramer, FR 1986
Screenplay: 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, colour, 17 min. French with English subtitles*

Des graines dans le vent (Seeds in the Wind)
Robert Kramer, FR 1998
Cinematography: Robert Kramer, Maurice Serfaty
DCP, colour, 29 min. English/French with French/English subtitles

Maquette (Scale Model)
Robert Kramer, FR 1990
Cinematography, editing: Robert Kramer; music: Barre Phillips; with: Dancers of the Artefact company, Geneviève Vincent, Jean-Pierre Giaccobazzi, Daniel Herrero, Simone Komatis, Kasper T. Toeplitz. DCP, colour, 61 min. French with English subtitles

Un plan d'enfer is Kramer's only production with Steadicam, a commission for the Société Lyonnaise de Banque. In Des graines dans le vent, the handful of British workers marching towards Amsterdam to fight for their rights at the ‘European March Against Unemployment, Insecurity and Exclusion’ look pretty lost. Kramer accompanies the group, but his doubts prevail right from the start: ‘You shouldn't do this if you don't want to do it, Robert’. After a week, Kramer leaves the group, giving advice on what doesn't work in the resulting film. Maquette is ultimately also an unfinished film: an excursion into the world of dance and other cultural activities in Toulon. ‘There is one film that I haven't finished. I shot it in Châteauvallon with a dance group called Artefact. There is a rough cut with the title Maquette, that's all I did with it.’ (Volker Pantenburg)

* Courtesy Cinémathèque française

Photo: Austrian Film Museum