Juin en Vacances is a film

originally made from fifty

images taken from French

magazines of 1968, such as

Femmes d’Aujourd’hui, Modes

travaux, and Elle, and edited

to a shorter version here.

The magazines are aimed at

the ambitious yet economical

housewife of that epoch,

who is nonetheless very well

aware of a world that is larger

than her supposed desire to

be well-styled while performing

expertly as an attentive

mother and wife, a practical 

and thrifty dressmaker. The

images originally show the

back details of the particular

outfits made from the patterns

that are supplied in each

issue; in the film they show

women who are walking away,

back to camera, moving out

of sight – rather like Arletty,

in the character of Garance,

at the end of Marcel Carné’s

film Les Enfants du Paradis.

However, unlike Arletty, my

women, whom I think of as my

voyageuses, do not disappear

in the crowd nor drive