The Slightest Gesture had been built around a fable; the film kept the overall form of its story. Ce gamin, là recounts nothing, captures moments in the life of the network while avoiding turning it into a “subject”. “Ce gamin, là, is it a documentary or a fiction?, asked Deligny....

In issue 428 (1990), the Cahiers du Cinéma commended the television broadcast of Renaud Victor’s Fernand Deligny. A propos d’un film à faire. The feature piece included one of Deligny’s most significant texts about the image, titled “Ce qui ne se voit pas” (What is not seen”), prompted by questions...