The Library at Night
A Short film of
Production year2011
Runtime17 min
Synopsis
At night of insomnia of an old man in his vast library, a incomprehensible place, not only by its size, but because it is the extension of a human being, the one who created it. Library populated with ghosts. The old man does not see them. Books in a library live on the same shelves but do their characters know each other? The reader is a medium. The read books and their characters haunt our spirits.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains
Full credits (10)
- Screenwriter : João Vieira Torres
- Director of photography : Camila Freitas
- Music Composer : Camille Claverie
- Editor : Suzana Pedro
- Sound Recordist : Rodrigo Sasic
- Voice-overs : Jean-Pierre Battesti, Tomoe Kubota
- Production Manager : Jacky Lautem
- Sound Editor : Matthieu Gagelin
- Continuity supervisor : Marie-Laure De Brem
- Sound Mixer : Jérémy Morelle
Media Gallery
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Fantasy, Video art
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2011
- Runtime : 17 min 40 seconds
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
Movies and programs to discover
MyFrenchShorts
Full movie to watch for free!
Changing Rooms, by Violette Gitton
César is 12 when his older sister Lou is sexually assaulted. In the changing rooms of the fencing classes he attends, everything is measured by the yardstick of violence. César would like to take part in every fight, but he doesn’t have the weapons.
