In our modern societies, demythologized, searching for a new breath that industrialization, comfort and consumption doesn't give anymore: alchemists still exist. Paule di Puccio is living proof. Born in 1917 in Burgundy, communist resistant during World War II, Paule di Puccio discovers alchemy in the 60's and especially through an esotericist learning from the United States, BOTA (Builders of the Addendum). For two decades she explores speculative alchemy, then in a day of Whit sun, when she decides to give up on everything, she receives the name of the Materia Prima : the operative alchemy's door opens to her.
In this interview, Paule di Puccio, invites us in this long road, demanding and winding, made of work and drop, full of masters and hoaxers, which is Alchemy. She is careful not to reveal everything, reminding us that « if you reveal the name of the matter, you are doomed to execration ».
In a meekly and straight speech, she talks about her asceticism, about this loving dialog that exists between the alchemist and the matter, particularly about that deep call, that adombrement that comes from above, to which she has subjected to with obedience for more than 40 ans...
47 minutes interview directed by Jean Pataut, and shot in his place, in Combres (Nièvre).
In our modern societies, demythologized, searching for a new breath that industrialization, comfort and consumption doesn't give anymore: alchemists still exist. Paule di Puccio is living proof. 
