La Cigarette

In her film La Cigarette, Friedl vom Gröller places five people before the camera. The location of the gathering remains vague – a small, lived-in room with a table, chairs, a sink, and in the background on a smaller table, open bottles and a film projector. This circumstance, as well as the fact that two “Nouvelle Vague” protagonists are among the five gathered here, Jackie Raynal and Jaques Rozier, make it appear that film and filmmaking are a specific motif of this gathering, or at least set the tone that runs through the meeting.

Four members of the group, three...