François Lagarde

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French philosopher of technology Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989) is perhaps most well known for his creation of a set of concepts in the 1960s that describe our modern world and that, at the time, illustrated a vision of a growing alliance between technology and nature. Throughout his life, Simondon was studied by some prominent thinkers (among them Gilles Deleuze) but still his singular philosophy remained rather unacknowledged. Since then, however, his work has been widely circulated around the globe, and has even gone beyond the field of philosophy, having a great resonance within many disciplines, recently including the fields of media and visual culture.

Result of twenty years of patient and passionate collection, constituting a fund of several thousand images taken on the German side and most of them unpublished, The Red and the Gray offers an adaptation of the famous war story by the German writer Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel. Confronting History, photography and writing, carried here by the voice of Hubertus Biermann, the film documents the passage from the old world of 1914-1915, the Red of the 19th century, to the Gray which replaces it, that of "the inhabitant of 'a new world'.

"In 1989, thanks to the addresses given to me by Jean Daive, I contacted Kojève's partner, Nina Ivanoff, then his niece, Nina Kousnetzoff. Nina Ivanoff allowed me to photograph the apartment in Vanves, which had remained as it was since Kojève's death, to admire the many photographs he took until the 1950s and to meet many of his friends. After reading "The Introduction to Reading Hegel", this was my first contact with Kojève's reality and since then the desire to make a film has not left me". (François Lagarde).