Boltanski’s L’Homme qui tousse (1969)

“With his work L’Homme qui tousse (1969), Christian Boltanski (born in 1944, lives and works in Malakoff) turns the viewer into a voyeur, making him witness to a gruesome scene. Produced with limited means, the film presents a modestly dressed man sitting on the floor of a dilapidated room, his body wracked continuously as he coughs up blood that flows over his chest and legs.”