French director Christian Lebrat is interviewed in occasion of the retrospective dedicated to French Contemporary Avant-Garde Cinema, during the 2003 Pesaro International Film Festival of New Cinema .
The director presents his films Liminimal (2003 – 10') and Out of (K)nowhere: un film d'Anne Prat (2003 – 20'), the reconstruction of the material left to him by Anne Prat, a student whom had studied cinema with him at the University of Paris in the 1970s.
The film presents images and sounds emerging from the scheme and extending to physical spaces. He defines it as a work based on the manipulation of the image by moving the projectors around and varying the zoom.
He also talks about the French experimental filmmakers, who have been experiencing an exciting period over the last years, with a vast flourishing of ideas, styles, new protagonists, meetings places, structures and organizations.
The director finally explains the difficulty in finding support that led a movement of filmmakers to ask an intervention from the State. He specifies that experimental cinema has defined its own ways of producing and promoting films, which must be integrated and encouraged as an autonomous form of cinema.

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by Federico Greco