The Artist's Salary
Le salaire de l'artiste
Switzerland 2000. 16mm/Beta/VHS, colour, 60 min.
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To these 11 years of filming are added some extracts from a short film of 1968 about Laurent, then aged 7, and a sequence in 1986 done by Pascal Chevalley for the Télévision Suisse Romande.
Rapid success followed by failure forced the painter to reconsider his life choice and drove him to his present activity in Switzerland. The artist progressively became co-director and at last he could turn the camera on the film director (Jacqueline Veuve).
It’s a picture about the artist’s social environment and those who live with his painting.
| Director | Jacqueline Veuve et Laurent Veuve |
| Script | Jacqueline Veuve et Laurent Veuve |
| Photography | Milivoy Ikovic, Willy Rohrbach |
| Sound | Pierre-André Luthy, Fred Kohler |
| Editing | Loredana Cristelli, Edwige Ochsenbein |
| Music | Grand Master Flash & The Furious Five, Bach |
| Duration | 60 min. |
| Format | 16mm/Beta/VHS, colour |
| Versions | français; ST: english, deutsch |
| Sales DVD/Video | DVD, VHS [order |
| Festivals/Prizes | Locarno (Filmmakers of the present). Festival Namur. Paris: International Festival of Art Film, 2001 Isola (Slovénie) 2007 |
| Production | Aquarius Film Production |
| World Rights | Aquarius Film Production |
| Distribution Switzerland | Aquarius Film Production, CH-1808 Les Monts-de-Corsier Tél. +41 21 921 18 20 – Fax +41 21 921 78 31 E-mail: info@jacquelineveuve.com – send a message |
| Distribution international | France: Visionnement: Bibliothèques publiques, cf. www.culture.gouv.fr |
| Literature | B.Galland, Une femme de cinéma, 2003, p. 53ss. |
Press review
Let's discover this passionate pair, the son, a painter, and the mother, a film maker, and the path that led Laurent Veuve to reach his forties and different activities in Switzerland, and led Jacqueline Veuve to this accomplished film
Coopération, 4.10.00 (ns)
Without giving away the plot, its more than skillful conclusion manages to question many givens, even some of the former elements of the story. An enlightening testimony.
La Tribune de Genève, 6.10.00 (Pascal Gavillet)