Synopsis
A cardboard decoration and photos reconstitutes a luxurious villa of Californian type in Algeria. The inhabitants, neighbors and the other protagonists come there to explain why and how this one would have been occupied by terrorists to hide, while, paradoxically, it is completely glazed. They would have even maintained it to leave no track of their passage. This improbable and insolvent anecdote leads the characters to invent the images of a period mediatized without clichés nor stories by missing the main object
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
Full credits (8)
- Screenwriter : Neïl Beloufa
- Director of Photography : Guillaume Le Grontec
- Editors : Ermanno Corrado, Neïl Beloufa
- Sound Recordist : Neïl Beloufa
- Production Manager : Frédéric Papon
- Sound Editor : Jérémy Morelle
- Production Designers : Florian Fournier, Johnny Brecht
- Sound Mixer : Grégoire Bourdeuil
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Fairy tale, Video art
- Themes : Art, Politics, Legends, Architecture, Intrigue
- Production language : French, Algerian
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2010
- Runtime : 15 min
- Visa number : 129.405
- Production formats : HD
- Color type : Color
- Rating restrictions : None
News & awards
Selections (4)
Awards (1)
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
Germany, 2011
City of Oberhausen Grand Prize
North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Culture Prize
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