By the Ways
Director Vincent Gérard/ Cédric Laty
Countries France
Duration 90 min
Synopsis
A journey with William Eggleston. A journey through southern United States, the birth land of William Eggleston: the “father of colour photography”. Over the last 40 years, Eggleston has photographed this arid land, with the intention of making History. A visionary? A photographer, creating his own role, evades the revelation of his personality. As such, his persistent silence challenges each truth that is revealed. The film is continuously wrested into being a game between its own fiction and the truth. Eggleston's photographs as ruins of a distant civilization?
A journey with William Eggleston. A journey through southern United States, the birth land of William Eggleston: the “father of colour photography”. Over the last 40 years, Eggleston has photographed this arid land, with the intention of making History. A visionary? A photographer, creating his own role, evades the revelation of his personality. As such, his persistent silence challenges each truth that is revealed. The film is continuously wrested into being a game between its own fiction and the truth. Eggleston's photographs as ruins of a distant civilization?