La perle

Marguerite Lantz | France | 2007 | 5' |

| IFFR 2015

A girl appears to be getting changed, but turns out to be using her mobile phone’s camera to transform herself into the girl in Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, ultimately also adopting the same pose; the pixels become digital brushstrokes.

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