Movie

Matisse (1951)

• September 10, 1951
• 8m

• Documentary

Overview

A surviving fragment from Henri Langlois’s unfinished Cinémathèque française project inviting artists, writers, scholars, and filmmakers to create 16mm works outside commercial and censorship constraints. Filmed with Matisse’s cooperation, the short preserves one of the few completed remnants of the ambitious initiative.

Directors

Frédéric Rossif, Henri Langlois

Writers

Henri Langlois

Starring

Henri Matisse