• Director(s):

    JAFFRENOU (MICHEL)

  • Producer(s):

    MIRAGE ILLIMITE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2001

  • Language(s):

    French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET

An exceptional art book, created by Henri Matisse, who invented the new process of "live" cutting-out in colour: paper - gouache - scissor cutouts, with a new instrument for freedom that he used right up to his final day.

Jazz is also the outcome of a particularly fruitful friendship between Matisse and the publisher Tériade, who produced the book with exceptional care, printing it entirely by stencil-work.
Starting from the small Tériade museum on island of Lesbos, where the book is "opened" page by page on the walls, just as Matisse wished, the film proposes to retrace this artistic and human adventure, attempting to make felt, rather than describe, this extraordinary exploration of space and light.