Synopsis :

Alex Barbier feared death as much as his physical degradation. Though he always warn me, saying  :" I'll be dead before the end of your film !", that was not a part of my script.

Alex Barbier passed on January 29th, 2019. From 1974 until today, his work launched one of the most creative alternate movment of comic's universe. It testifies 40 years of graphic and narrative revolution before giving birth to the last artwork of this iconoclast in "neuvième art" : his graphic novel : Dernière Bande. Alex Barbier was ready to say farewell to comics trip thus he can completly devote to painting in his studio.

I was used to film him for five years when I heard about his death. I was taken aback. Now, I have to create with the loss of my documentary subject. To build a last storyline, fully mine, since Alex won't be here to respond anymore. Transcribe with animation, without any pathos or hagiographic excess, those last moments lived in the painter's intimity.