Pierre Alferi

Pierre Alferi was a poet, philosopher and experimental filmmaker. He called his films cinépoèmes and films parlants, due to his interest in the interplay of text and image in new media forms, and in homage to Benjamin Fondane’s 1928 cinépoèmes. The son of Algerian-French philosopher Jacques Derrida, Alferi consistently applied a philosophical lens to his filmmaking, film criticism and film prose, as demonstrated in his novel Le cinéma des familles (1999).

For Cahiers du Cinéma, Alferi wrote: films are memories, leftovers, cabins of old vessels encumbering the cathodic sky. They turn and collide there, worn around the edges, drunk.

Er

Pierre Alferi, with music by The Thievery Corporation

2008 , 7'

Litany

Pierre Alferi, with John Ashbery and Ann Lauterbach

2002 , 3'

Intime

Pierre Alferi

2004 , 15'