Synopsis
At night, workers dig the sand in a pit. At dawn, around them, the immense towers of a futuristic city raise themselves, crossed by little human activities. Gradually details appear, stones get loose, the sand flows, grounds disintegrate. Fragile on its bases, the city seems in a paradoxical time of destruction and construction, a future ruin called to dissolve and to return to a mineral state.
Credits
Director (1)
Full credits (8)
- Screenwriter : Cécile Hartmann
- Director of photography : Cécile Hartmann
- Editor : Cécile Hartmann
- Production manager : Cécile Hartmann
- Sound editor : Cécile Hartmann
- Continuity supervisor : Cécile Hartmann
- Special Effects : Cécile Hartmann
- Sound mixer : Cécile Hartmann
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Experimental, Research - Experimental, Video art
- Production language : No dialogue
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2011
- Runtime : 12 min 6 seconds
- Production formats : DVCPRO-HD
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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🏆 This short film won the César Award 2024 for Best Short Film (Fiction)