Between 2016 and 2021, Laurent Achard made four portraits of filmmakers: Paul Vecchiali, Jean-Claude Brisseau, François Stévenin and Patricia Mazuy. The fifth, that of Leos Carax, started to be shot in 2023 and was never finished. Achard nicknamed it ‘the chairs’. “When we consider how familiar death is, and how complete our ignorance is, and that there has never been any escape, we must admit that the secret is well kept” (Vladimir Jankelevitch). Teicher, the producer and friend, welcomes back Achard through his images: the work of portraying the labour of cinema, the work of companionship.