Saison Video’s interest in series began in 2016 with the reception of the artist’s series Pragmatic Chaos by Virgile Fraisse, which was distributed in April 2017 on saisonvideo.com.  Since then the following questions have been raised:  who are the other artists who have made series or who are planning to do so?  And who is referred to in their films?  Discovering Return to Genoa City, 2017, directed by Benoît Grimalt was a stroke of luck.  It was thus possible to openly broach Les Feux de l’Amour, [The Young and Restless], which is not considered to be an artist’s series, and above all to do so without being condescending or disdainful.  The director’s approach is a subtle one.  The image of the series is associated with grandmothers and the siesta moment.  So it was his own grandmother and his great-uncle whom he went to film in Nice in their living-room, which they have not left for years.  Pride of place in that living-room goes to the TV set, in front of which they have been sitting, at the appointed hour, from the very beginning of the series in 1989.  No family reunion has managed to stop that ritual.  Based on that habit, and that attachment, Benoît Grimalt shapes the family history.  He duly overlaps excerpts from the series with photographic archives filmed in VHS when he was first trying to be a director.  With Les Feux de l’Amour, [The Young and Restless] as its starting point, the film makes a touching tribute to his family, while at the same time casting a mischievous eye over its foibles.  In the same way, as a teenager, he would tickle his uncle on the point of dropping off to sleep with a feather duster.