Richard Philpott

un tour autour de la tête de Proust

reminiscences from
"Remembrance of Things Past"

PART ONE (UK January 2026, 4k digital, 55 minutes)
SWANN'S WAY
WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE

PART TWO (UK January 2026, 4k digital,(87 minutes)
THE GUERMANTES WAY

PART THREE (c 120 minutes; 2026)
SODOM & GOMORRAH

PART FOUR (c 120 minutes; 2026)
THE CAPTIVE
THE FUGITIVE

PART FIVE (c 100 minute; 2027)
TIME REGAINED

We feel in one world, we think, we give names to things in another; between the two we can establish a certain correspondence, but not bridge the interval. It was quite narrow, this interval, this fault that I had had to cross.
- Marcel Proust

PART ONE - synopsis

The Narrator’s childhood in Combray - his experience of unconscious memory caused by the taste of a Madeleine soaked in lime tea - the two Ways that are walked from the house - his awareness of Swann and his daughter Gilberte among hawthrons - the moving steeples of Martinville trigger ecstatic joy - the Ways evoke profound awareness - Swann’s love for Odette as an aesthetic object - the Narrator’s first visit to Balbec - his awareness of different selves in himself and Gilberte at different times - a sense of profound reality discovered in a musty smell - the awareness that memories contain secrets of nature - Balbec society and the Narrator’s Grandmother - trees moving in a landscape during a carriage drive revive a sense of profound ecstasy - friendships with Robert de Saint-Loup and a band of girls on the beach - the awareness of a multiplicity of selves - understanding awakening only in solitude - the importance of dreaming - a first intimacy with Albertine

	RICHARD PHILPOTT FILMS 2024 - filmography		ARTWORKS 1973 -1992 ARTWORKS 2014 - 2020 ARTWORKS 2021 - 2022 ARTWORKS 2023 - FILMS 1973 -1992 FILMS 2019 - 2020 FILMS 2021 - 2023 (shorts) FILMS 2021 - 2024 ("aye" series) FILMS 2024 - PUBLICATIONS

*FugaFilm* (UK 2024, 4k digital, 5 minutes)	SHORT RELEASED May 2024 "I had experienced a moment of genuine rapture, not from some idea of importance, but from a musty smell." - Marcel Proust	"wisdom rises from a bad smell" - Satori Ubu
*Now AGAIN* (UK 2025-27, 4k digital, 540 minutes - in 5 parts) Music: Bach Beethoven Chopin Debusy Franck Hahn Janacek Kancheli Liszt Mompu Pachelbel Saint-Saens Schubert Scriabin Shostakovich Vierne Wagner with deep gratitude to inspirational pianists Fanny Azzuro Boris Giltburg Clelia Iruzun Marion Lees for their musical support and permissions.	Feature / Series for RELEASE 2027 un tour autour de la tête de Proust reminiscences from "Remembrance of Things Past" PART ONE (UK January 2026, 4k digital, 55 minutes) SWANN'S WAY WITHIN A BUDDING GROVE PART TWO (UK January 2026, 4k digital,(87 minutes) THE GUERMANTES WAY PART THREE (c 120 minutes; 2026) SODOM & GOMORRAH PART FOUR (c 120 minutes; 2026) THE CAPTIVE THE FUGITIVE PART FIVE (c 100 minute; 2027) TIME REGAINED We feel in one world, we think, we give names to things in another; between the two we can establish a certain correspondence, but not bridge the interval. It was quite narrow, this interval, this fault that I had had to cross. - Marcel Proust	camera sound edit direction production - Richard Philpott "The first filmic interpretation of Proust's entire novel, Philpott stretches narrative form into rich and varied experimental territories, providing a visual feastand sonic immersion, using AI and unique digital production techniques, to reveal the vast panoramic structure of Proust's great masterwork and provide a 21st century foundation for this timeless 20th century epic." A new form of story-telling for a modern age. Closer to documentary invention, rejecting costume drama. Closer to art than stage. Writing in pictures and music. "I hope to provide new and direct access to Proust's intimate investigation of his mind, an understanding our internal world and a human's relationship to the external world."	TRAILER
	PART ONE - synopsis The Narrator’s childhood in Combray - his experience of unconscious memory caused by the taste of a Madeleine soaked in lime tea - the two Ways that are walked from the house - his awareness of Swann and his daughter Gilberte among hawthrons - the moving steeples of Martinville trigger ecstatic joy - the Ways evoke profound awareness - Swann’s love for Odette as an aesthetic object - the Narrator’s first visit to Balbec - his awareness of different selves in himself and Gilberte at different times - a sense of profound reality discovered in a musty smell - the awareness that memories contain secrets of nature - Balbec society and the Narrator’s Grandmother - trees moving in a landscape during a carriage drive revive a sense of profound ecstasy - friendships with Robert de Saint-Loup and a band of girls on the beach - the awareness of a multiplicity of selves - understanding awakening only in solitude - the importance of dreaming - a first intimacy with Albertine	PART TWO - synopsis The Narrator's family move home in Paris to the Hotel Guerrmantes - exploration of the relationship between great acting and great writing - the mental separation of the worlds of things and their names - the separation of the paths of waking and sleep, of reality and what is wished for - a visit to Saint-Loup and a telephone call to his Grandmother makes clear the gulf between self and other, representation and reality, and an intimation of death - Saint-Loup’s obsessive unrealistic love for an actress - the unreality of the ego and the mystery of death - the society of the Guermantes and the Faubourg Saint Germaine - the strange behaviour of Baron de Charlus - the Grandmother’s stroke - the visits of the author Bergotte and intimations of death - the consciousness and unconsciousness of sleep - the death of the Narrator’s grandmother - reminiscences of Balbec and Albertine and the artificiality of memory as fantasy - the tolerance of Charlus’ insulting behaviour - Charlus’s extreme treatment of the Narrator - a failed assignation in the Bois - the relationship between the profound experiences of the church steeples and the moving trees - a reception at the Guermantres - the paintings of Elsier reveal new realities - the falseness of Faubourg society - the self-delusions of the Guermantes - the mistaken relationship between nature and representation in art - an hysterical interview with M de Charlus - a reception at the Princess de Guermantes - the anti-semitic divisions of society - the Dreyfus Affair - the Guermantes refusal to recognise death in favour of a costume ball.


(6 films)

RICHARD PHILPOTT

FILMS 2024 - filmography

un tour autour de la tête de Proust

FILMS 2024 -

filmography