Marcelle Thirache

Marcelle Thirache began working as a photographer and started to show her work in 1978. Her discovery of Marguerite Duras and Germaine Dulac led her to become interested in cinema and, after attending a workshop with Katerina Thomadaki in the mid-1980s, she started to make films in Super 8. In 1987 she showed her work to yann beauvais and Miles McKane; amazed by the economy of means of her expressive camera editing, they decided to include it in the catalogue of French cooperative Light Cone.

Thirache’s films combine gestural lyrical cinema in which the filmmaker’s body is sensually inscribed in the cuts and camera movements, investigations in which she subverts the codes of representation of the body and female sexuality, and hand-painted film scratched on the emulsion. To complete her cinematographic practice, Thirache began training in classical painting in 1999.