1990, Boltanski published an article entitled "Remembrance Inflatable Slides of them," the article. In his third person to tell their own, as if he is around people who have died in Remembrance of the people. He wrote: "Many people do not know, he would like to become a matter of fact, my director, and he is still very young when it really produced a lot of very violent films, and even a bit abusive mad……" Indeed, Boltanski in the works, films Zhanzhao fundamental position.
In his young, the artist produced more than 100 pieces of paintings, until a moment, he decided to frame these figures from the liberation, they made a doll, and then shooting down of these dolls. In 1958, his first exhibition "Christian Boltanski • impossibility of life", is named in a widening of the Rugby held in the cinema. He Xiazai in a huge, paintings, dolls and not a narrative of the film together on display.
"Cough" and "licking the people" in the figures is a direct continuation of the doll creation. These characters in the film is a simple life-size dolls, some wearing masks and the actors, dressed from the old paper and cloth made of gimmicky Xizhuang. These films had neither the first nor tail, but is very terrible, makes the audience very uncomfortable. "Cough" is the one sitting in the performance of both dark and narrow in the Inflatable Slides small room, his face was completely cloth blindfolded. Lens goes forward, we can see from this figure Mogui Ban mid-stream mouth bleeding, but blood flows continuously, the stream are received. Non-stop coughing and vomiting out the things people nausea, uncomfortable. If we put this work to re-placed in the artist's career, you can see that it is at all-just-concluded artists painting creative period, so the film can also be interpreted as a refusal, from a Physical, Fuzang from within the rejection of the painting.
"Comedy Pieces" is composed of black and white photographs from some of a small theater to. Drama, Christian Boltanski • re-interpretation of his children in times of some scenes ( "My mother's vanity," and "ink", "his father's harsh", "his grandfather's death"……). Boltanski dress with a deep dark clothing, while his father, while his mother, priests and "small Christian." Hat live on fixed in a paper flower, this figure can show the mother and to his "small Christian", the artist and Harlequin will only Kujiao of rolled up and pulled the clothes on Inflatable Slides his head, as if such a , The people on the smaller. In these works, he was like a real actor, himself onto the stage, which inherited the tradition of film comedy. These continuous graphic photos with text, is reminiscent of a silent process of the player, but silent in the middle of every scene has a text topic. • Christian Boltanski also borrowed from silent in the rough rendering of the scenery, figures exaggerated expressions, and the performance of the simplicity of the plot. Through this to a small theater, Boltanski is not designed to faithfully reproduce his age children, and more is to imitate ridiculous to family life in some cliche scenes: children both naughty and mischievous, his mother Love dressed, always smiling, and in the Tanzhe reported that Chouzhe pipe is always the father no reason to blame the children…… So, Boltanski and not just to conduct some kind of autobiographical reproduction, But trying to arouse in the hearts of viewers with similar memories, thereby activating a "common memory."