She imagined, for instance, that random conversations in cafes going on behind the main character's dialog could be interactively brought to the foreground so that you could not only hear the scripted dialog but unscripted conversations in "real French".
Of course, a multimedia film for teaching language was a very rich real estate and Sophie had a lot of ideas that never got implemented for budget reasons. Trafic (1971) and Parade) (1974) and learned a great deal from her father about sound production. She had been the editor on a number of Tati's films (Play Time (1967). One of the things she was most interested in was sound. The film about Phillipe was beautifully directed with lot's of Tati-like touches. Sophie was a great person to talk to about movies and Alain, who's wife Catherine Ficat was then a curator at the Cinematheque France, was equally excited about meeting her. It was the first time I had blood sausage in Paris. I met Sophie in Paris with Gilberte and Alain Giffard who at that time was the director of technology for the Bibliotheque de France. A la Rencontre de Philippe was directed by Sophie Tatischeff, the daughter of legendary French filmmaker Jacque Tati.
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It consisted of two full length interactive films: A la Rencontre de Philippe, the fictional story of a young man changing jobs and looking for a new apartment in Paris, and Dans un quartier de Paris, a documentary about the Marais neighbourhood where he looking for an apartment. One the language projects we did at the MIT Visual Computing group was Direction Paris by MIT French language Senior Lecturer Gilberte Furstenburg.