La Dans

Produced by Sociéte A. Lumière (1400)

Variation on a fixed sequence of a corridor taken from Erick Rohmer’s Pauline à la Place. At the end of the corridor, there is a door that one can open or shot. This door and the action around it is the focus point to Rohmer’s film. In mine, the plot focus more specifically on the left door, the one we won’t see on screen.

Silent dance in the style of Loïe Fuller

Violence, Fear, Passion, Revolution, Pleasure, Shape, Color, Movement, Overprint, Jerky Montage, Frame by Frame, Dementia, Environmental Destruction, Disaster, Death and Renaissance.

An afternoon at the end of summer in a Calais suburb, in the northernmost part of France. Children and teenagers kill time at the foot of tower blocks. Their faces are often silent, already sometimes drawn or worried. Around them, large areas of sky and wild grass.

This hard-hitting documentary reveals the abuse suffered by the gay community all over the world. France, despite having legalized gay marriage in 2013, has seen a rise in homophobic violence in recent years. In Tunisia, gay people can be sentenced to three years in prison, simply for their sexual orientation. When arrested by the police, they are subject to an “anal examination”, a humiliating procedure of no scientific value. Uganda is one of the 27 sub-Saharan countries in which homosexuality is repressed, with active state-encouragement of homophobia, and where homosexuality is punishable by lifetime imprisonment. In the United States, more progressive laws have not translated into progressive attitudes. 700,000 Americans, in a desperate attempt to change their sexual orientation, have gone to see therapists who claim to be able to “transform any homosexual into a heterosexual.”

A sphere falls in water.