Retour Aléatoire (Random Return), this is the title chosen by Dominique Marchès to name a hybrid project:
Return, because the artist returns to his career, during which he founded and directed several galleries and contemporary art centers; return, because it evokes his life as a photographer, and the eclectic collection he has passionately gathered since 1972; return, finally because he chronicles certain facts and meetings essential to his subjective journeys. Random, because he likes to play: if he closes his eyes, he returns to Thouars, a city dear to his adolescence. Random to mean open and fragmentary content, a professional, personal and artistic story where things intertwine and are done without any certainty of predictability.
Written & Directed by Dominique Marchès, Sophie Brossais & PP Toufektchan
Produced by La Ville de Thouars & Le Centre d’Art La Chapelle Jeanne-d’Arc de Thouars
Co-produced with Lucas Khamvongsa & PP Toufektchan
41”15 - 4K - 1,77:1 - 2021
stills by PP Toufektchan & Lucas Khamvongsa