Video link: https://vimeo.com/1071005956
SYNOPSIS:
A camera moves between the bodies of four women, who maintain a strange verticality despite their immersion in the ocean. Like sleeping whales, they let themselves drift gently, without fear or restraint, their faces clinging to the surface of the water.
THEMES:
The project explores two main themes: the image of women and climate change.
It is based on the late 19th century, when Pre-Raphaelite painters enjoyed sublimating the martyred, impeded, dying or weakened woman, and of which John Everett Millais’ Ophelia is one of the jewels.
Ophelia: a body offered indifferently to death and to delight. Her beauty fascinates and attracts. But this sublimation of the female victim, consenting to her own demise, dismays us today.
The floods that devastated several regions in Europe in July 2021 also had a big impact on the project (we shot the images in a Belgian city that was heavily hit by mudslides). In this short film installation, the water can be both benevolent or threatening and we have no way to know if the scene takes place pre- or post-catastrophe. A submerged village, with a group of women embodying the memories of life as it once may have been.
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Video - CortometraggioCreato il 21 novembre 2024