
Cela avait commencé par un accident
Due to her fascination with its complex migration, Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel has a life-size monarch butterfly tattooed every trip she takes. After 10 years, she has collected 41 butterflies from around the globe, from the first in Quebec to the most recent in Kiev and Hiroshima.
Also in this combined programme
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Super Smile
Effie Wu always looks straight at the camera during her daily routine. Her constant smile becomes increasingly unnerving for viewers.
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Monologue
The camera focuses on a narcissist’s mouth while he boasts about his success with women and his job while he eats a plate of spaghetti.
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Ego Sumo Version 2
Emilio López-Menchero embodies a Japanese sumo wrestler in an empty ballroom, then mentally and physically battles his own mirror image.
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Living
Frans Zwartjes and his wife restlessly wander around their home. The music, the empty space and the use of an extremely wide-angle lens create an o
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Shrugging Offing
Shrugging Offing produces effects of excitement and revulsion, and ultimately sleep, in the viewer as if it were a body. A performance of desire an
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The Footstones in Night Writing
Aldona lost her sight in 1986. This is her daily outing to Gutras Park where she wanders through both past and present.
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Sexy
Kurdwin Ayub observes, imitates and interprets Miley Cyrus’s video We Can’t Stop. Ayub’s desperate posture contrasts with Miley’s self-
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Two Faces
Hermine Freed caresses and kisses her mirror image in an attempt to reclaim her body in a male-dominated society.
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Get Closer
Collage of scraps of photographs of three children shot in 1989. At the end, the pieces fall into place. Intimate reflection on time’s progre
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La perle
A girl uses her mobile phone’s camera to transform into the girl in Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring. Pixels become digital brushstr
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Jo
Justine Pluvinage heads to New York with just two goals: to film and have sex. The camera serves as a means of meeting new men, the film acts as a
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Colin Is My Real Name
Reinterpretation of Colin Campbell’s True/False (1972). Nemerofsky Ramsay portrays Campbell affirming and denying personal statements about h
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Arid Edge
Bike ride through the rugged Atacama desert in Northern Chile, the driest in the world. Phil Dadson finds calm in the seemingly endless emptiness.<
Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2015
- Length
- 9"
- Medium/Format
- File
- Language
- French
- Premiere status
- International premiere
- Director
- Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel, Vincent Mengin-Lecreulx
- Producer
- Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel
- Screenplay
- Vincent Mengin-Lecreulx, Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel
- Cinematography
- Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel
- Editing
- Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel
- Production design
- Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel
- Sound design
- Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel
- Principal cast
- Vincent Mengin-Lecreulx
- Sales / World rights holder
- Heure Exquise!
- Music
- Eliot Z Gualdi
