Marketa Tomanova's Reel

André Villers, A Lifetime in Images (2016) A documentary film written and directed by Marketa Tomanova Produced by Martin Matiasek, Prokop Toman and Marketa Tomanova When he was 21, André discovered photography at the sanatorium in Vallauris, where he was hospitalized for several years, suffering from bone tuberculosis. Two years later, André befriends Pablo Picasso, who will buy the young photographer his very first own Rolleiflex camera. The two will later work together on a poetic...

A documentary about French photographer and artist André Villers produced and directed by Marketa Tomanova. André Villers takes photographs, develops, enlarges, cuts, glues, assembles, replaces, staples, takes out, rips off, and puts back together.... He remains active even though he is already 82 years. He is a fully-fledged artist.