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David Wharry

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Born in the United Kingdom in 1950, lives and works in France since 1975.  Since 1978 David Wharry has been working on GENERAL PICTURE, an evolving work currently made up of about twenty “episodes”. These films can be shown together, separately or in different orders. GENERAL PICTURE explores the fundamental components of the cinematographic spectacle and in particular its theatrical aspect, the notion of projection, the relationship between the projected image and the spectator. In this crime (wanted by its main accomplice, the spectator) GENERAL PICTURE involves different genres of commercial cinema, and its structure and its narrative interweaving allow and generate this freedom of movement without guilt.

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Film Production

Director:
1977  Horizontal Hold
1978  Dawn Patrol
1978  For Eyes Only
1978  Phaeton
1978  Wishful Thinking
1979  À plate couture
1980  A Touch of Venus
1980  Freighters of Destiny
1980  Interlude
1980  Interlude
1980  Suddenly Once More
1981  Body and Soul
1981  El Cafetal
1982  European Crisis
1983  Written on the Wind
1986  Carlton Dekker
2018  Point Blank
2021  Dream
2021  The Screen
2021  The Taj Mahal
2023  Anatole Lacoste et l'oeil du calamar
????  The Edge of Darkness
????  The Mark of the Three

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