'L’invisible des images': effets de mise à distance et constitution d’un récit de transmission dans 'Les Années super 8'

This article examines the careful composition underlying David Ernaux-Briot’s film The Super-8 Years (2022) and its resulting effects. Made from family archives and from a piece written by Annie Ernaux for the occasion, the film goes beyond the conventions of the family movie by giving us access to what images do not (fully) show. Firstly, The Super-8 Years combines a desire of family transmission with the broader impetus to act as sociological commentary. Secondly, through thematic and structural techniques, the composition of the film and that of Annie Ernaux’s text create ruptures which question any possible correlation between image, text and lived experience. Finally, The Super-8 Years sheds light on the notion of authorial figure through a collaborative act of creation, and through its contribution to the narrative and iconography of Ernaux-as-writer.