Star Life

Storyline

Have you ever dreamed of a star-studded cast with Gérard Philippe and Alain Delon, Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot, James Dean and Sean Connery, Ava Gardner and Greta Garbo and... thirty or forty of the biggest movie stars? In this video, Philippe Andrevon brings together, in the space of five one-minute sequences, the most impressive collection of movie stars ever seen in a single film. An insane challenge just a few years earlier, and still a technological feat at the time, he brings to life all the protagonists of a fantasy world, layer by layer, where every character, even those in the background, is a global star regardless of genre and era constraints. Extracted from the films and reanimated by the graphic palette, the actors, disconnected and imprisoned in the repetition of their image, can only stammer, terrified of becoming mere puppets manipulated by the operator. More than a simple technical demonstration, closer to animation cinema, "Star Life" humorously symbolizes the transition from cinema to video, the recovery of archive images, and the mixing and blending of genres.