Scenes de la Vie Francaise: La Ciotat

Whereas throughout the film “Scenes de la vie francaise: Paris” the image is formed by means of relatively long sections recorded on different dates, in “Scenes de la vie Francaise: La Ciotat” the image showing the port, the dry docks, the workers leaving the ship yards, a tanker launched, fishermen and the beach, rests on the interweaving of short moments. Hence in the case of this film the configuration is composed of two distinct but closely situated durations.