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Guy-Claude Rochemont was an English teacher for 34 years, he is a founder of the Cinematheque de Toulouse.
"It took me until the military service only to find that I was black." It's like that Guy-Claude Rochemont, wielding the word with precision and elegance of humor. A scholarly man, snowman, miles away from rhetoric and sometimes boring que l’on retrouve dans le milieu de la culture. C’est que l’homme consomme le septième art comme la vie et les bonnes tables qu’il apprécie tant, avec gourmandise, goûtant, appréciant, se délectant, de tous les plats plutôt que des avis autorisés d’une certaine intelligentsia. Il n’est pour s’en convaincre qu’à l’entendre se faire l’avocat virulent « de la série B, oubliée, méprisée, qui recèle pourtant de purs trésors, des moments de cinéma extraordinaires ». Il pourrait pourtant se pousser du coude, lui dont l’histoire est intimement liée à celle du cinéma à Toulouse. Power to give life to his interlocutors the charms of old cinemas, their balconies hung with red velvet, with a consummate skill in directing and narrative, it is not the type to put forward its own course. Emphasize that he was a founder of the Cinematheque of Toulouse, which he is still director, and his work has contributed to the memory of cinema, and you immediately return to his profession, teacher, and especially his students he speaks again with passion and tenderness. Thirty-four years in high school English teacher Deodat Séverac, "that, is important. " He should probably get back into his childhood to understand the character. Born in a small village in Martinique, Schoelcher, Guy was raised by his grandmother in the family property, in front of a cinema, Pax. "My mother knew all the ushers and even then I started going to the movies. I crossed the street and saw everything that happened. My earliest memory is probably one of the biggest turnip in the history of cinema, it was called "the two kids." That's where I learned to love the gangster films, westerns, Scarface, Tarzan. " A happy childhood is going to take a decisive turn in 1950 when with his mother it takes to join the transatlantic France. "I have memories of dances, meals in a sumptuous dining room on this boat he recalls, an era that no longer exists." And if he does not read well, so the tears of his mother at the time of departure from the island, he recalls being dazzled by the arrival at Havre, "docking, the trunks are unloaded and a beautiful steam train that takes us Gare Saint Lazare. If the family then has an apartment in the fifteenth district of the capital, he must to having an uncle in Toulouse doctor to find internal "to the grammar school boys, we do not yet called Fermat school" before joining the Bellevue High School. "It was a real chance for me. At the time he was a pilot school where we were only 8 or 9 per class. It was an experiment that did not last terribly expensive because it cost, where we were very empowered. We went to the theater, opera, cinema and more courses, the supervisors and teachers framing our but many activities that we manage, we own organizations. " That, at thirteen, he finds himself looking after the film club and he could stop. "Back then there were gigantic club cinemas, including the youth, created after the war with a character who has not been sufficiently praised, a physics professor, Roger Clerc. A dozen buses were picking up the students throughout the city and poured in five or six rooms. In this context it will make its debut, planning projections, writing cards, dealing stewardship. Then he landed his tray and finished his degree in English, it will be a decisive meeting, "Raymond Borde, a chief financial officer who was fan of cinema, critical to modern times. He sought a place, people who could help in the collection he had begun to recover from movies gypsies, fairground, turners. We searched the cellars, attics, storerooms to retrieve all formats of movies, but also posters, equipment. " These years will be born the Cinematheque de Toulouse in 1964, which he recites as memories with truculence that day when he finds himself in a restaurant in front of Joseph Von Steinberg, "my feet have shrunk so much I was impressed before that mad man of elegance who handled a French splendor of a real" or that lunch with " Moreau miss. " In parallel to this adventure that engages all his free time, nights and days on end to seek work, to make shelves for sorting, storing, archiving, collections move several times, he continues his career as a professor of English. "For years and years we did everything, without any subsidy. Recognition has been slow. It was first international since the creation because we became members of the International Federation of Film Archives, a kind of film that the UN quickly Borde was elected to its executive committee. Then came the State, the National Center of Cinematography who will become our main support in 1969 and we subsidizing the city, department, region ... "A structure which he will chair between 1990 and 1996 before giving way Daniel Toscan du Plantier. Also director of the Cinematheque today Retirement of National Education, Guy nonetheless continues to work between meetings to festivals, conferences Interventions, doing translations, and sharing the love of cinema in particular and art in general. A man of transmission and sharing first. Hervé
Chossat
