"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself."
– Roland Barthes

It usually starts with an idea. In this case, Film Studies #1 focuses on the relationship between cinema and painting. But, going against the grain of art history, which until now has mostly asked what cinema owes to painting, Daniel Bastard draws on his passion for the world's cinephilias as the primary intention for each painting. Here, the artistic work consists of reinterpreting the extra-graphic dimensions of the cinematic image - made up of movement, sound, narration and dialogue - and retranscribing them through the painter's medium - made up of colors, textures, rhythms and letters. The thematic unity of this approach allows the use of all sorts of techniques.

The early works of the Film Studies #1 series were conceived as a tribute to the European auteur cinema of the 60s - notably Jean-Luc Godard and Ingmar Bergman. They consisted of inventing colors and textures for black-and-white film images.