Joann Sfar (dessins)
Mathieu Amalric
2010 - 43 min - DV Cam - Couleur - France

Joann Sfar can’t stop drawing, no matter where he is. Le Monde calls him “one of the most important and prolific graphic novelists of his time, overflowing with energy and imagination.” At 38-years-old, he is also among the most popular. His "Rabbi’s Cat books", inspired by his Algerian-Jewish family stories, sell by the hundreds of thousands worldwide. From front row seats at the nib of his pen, we track the artist’s odyssey through the unusual family heritage that is the well-spring of his work. And we visit his own frenetic present, also fodder for his imagination. He gobbles up experience and chronicles his impressions “in a charmingly distracted, scribbly style that seems to wriggle off the page.” (Washington Post.) Whatever Joann Sfar is doing and wherever he is, he is also somewhere else. At breakneck speed, “Sfar imagines a world being shared with our own, but made up of ghosts...”(Time Magazine.) Joann Sfar Draws from Memory follows him into his whimsical universe, where the dead bump into the living, on and off the page.