When she was working as cutter for films like La Carrière de Suzanne, La Collectionneuse and La Boulangère de Monceau, Jackie Raynal was most fascinated by how Rohmer handled sound. Unusual in times of digital access to every sound bit, the director insisted on using the original sound from exact...
May 2007. Elections, first tour; the moment of the vote, plus a love portrait. With the voice of Rustem, Turkish philosopher, reader in France since 1978. Film invited by Raphael Sevet for the Super8 Festival ‘One Reel’ set in Paris, June 2007.
When we’re moving, walking, watching, driving, how do we breathe? European Summer road diary. Back-and-forth with friends, music, Super8, video, poems. It’s an inner travelling hard to finish and give, because that kind of ‘catches’ doesn’t stop itself. As life is unrecordable, I play and...
The Devil's beauty is first a garden lived by fettereds statues, bodies tensed between sensuality, damnation and sacred. The film seduce by a brillant camera editing as a clear music. In a singular rhythm, images fall down as flights of quavers before a short lull, a shot, like a note...
How to keep our springs? How long can we keep them? Let's see some pictures and write some memories. Let's mix all of those in order to see what is hiding behind the memory tree.
The film appears like a ritual with splendids and crypteds psalms. The Great Master of Order (Marcel Mazé, new fetish actor after Aloual) seduces the young male prey with a running cinema projector which carves Murnau's Nosferatu extracts on their bodies. Metamorphosis, rituals passages, Eros and...
What can we see of the desert inside us? Musicians, dancers and comedians, solitary figures yet animated by a common history. The bodies inhabiting this film are all haunted by characters, imaginary travels and archives from a collective past. It was shot in Plélo, in Bretagne, France at Maitre...
