An exhibition is dedicated to the director and author Lise Déramond-Follin from January 16 to March 29, 2020 at the National House of Artists in Nogent-sur-Marne.

Lise Déramond-Follin: we will pick suns at night

Lise Déramond-Follin - Aléas shoot, 1995 Photo: © Gérard Follin - Courtesy of the artist

Taking the title of one of his films: We will pick suns at night, the exhibition retraces the cinematographic universe of this prolific telestreamer, through working documents, filming and set photographs, souvenir objects and some of his films.

After a Master of Arts at the University of Maryland (United States), Lise Déramond-Follin first became an assistant at Télé-Luxembourg, then at the ORTF, in 1967. From 1970, she produced a series of programs for Le cour des Shadoks. Later, for Counter-investigation, she directed Mémoires cassées (1985) around the reunion, more than forty years later, of a mother deported in 1943 and three of her five children; or Duty of response (1985), a cry of revolt against revisionist theses denying the existence of the gas chambers.

In 1984, On will pick suns at night received a special mention from the jury of the Société des Gens de Lettres. Then, with the film Imagine, we survived! (1993), she caused a scandal by telling the story of the children from Reunion Island sent and placed in metropolitan France between 1963 and 1982, who were renamed Alain, Jean-Pierre or Jean, "Because their real names were too complicated for the peasants of Creuse".

All of his films (there are more than 400 of them!) Thus constitute a work bearing an incisive, serious, militant look but also loaded with humor on contemporary society. Thus, in the yearbook of 1989 which retained the 200 best directors of French television, two terms already characterized his work: humor and revolt.

Lise Déramond-Follin currently resides at the Maison Nationale des Artistes and has just published Les Jonquilles du Cap Misène, Az'art atelier éditions, 2019.

Pratical information

Exhibition from January 16 to March 29, 2020

Open to the public
Every day from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 14 p.m. to 18 p.m.
Free admission

Access

RER A: Nogent-sur-Marne then bus 114 or 210, stop Sous-préfecture
RER E: Nogent-Le Perreux then direction District Court
Metro line 1: Château de Vincennes then bus 114 or 210, stop Sous-préfecture

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