My country: The galaxy of dreams

Huguette Spengler is a flamboyant character straight out of a Scott Fitzgerald novel. Palace hotels of the Riviera, psychiatric clinics, the establishment of Vichy 8Petain’s capital), slums of Marseille are some of the stations of her turbulent itinerary, before she became, in the 1970’s, one of the key figures of Paris artistic avant-garde.In a “Kitsch” setting, strikingly overdressed, Huguette Spengler speaks of her varied experience. Moving, shameless, disturbing, funny always excessive, she gives an aura of baroque poetry to her recollections.This is a portrait and a poem whose content is matched by an imaginative use of videotechnique.