Synopsis
In a small hotel in province, at dawn, a man prepares his luggage and proceeds to the meticulous arrangement of his familiar objects. At the end of this moment, the character will erase any track of his passage to apply, as expected, the principle resolute and ordered his own existence.
Credits
Director (1)
Actor (1)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : GREC - Groupe de Recherches et d'Essais Cinématographiques
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producer : Alice Beckmann
- Screenwriter : Yves Bernanos
- Director of Photography : François Paumard
- Editor : Clémence Lafarge
- Sound Recordist : Jean-Yves Chamblay
- Assistant Operator : Aleksander Kaufmann
- Production manager : Alice Beckmann
- Sound editor : Clémence Lafarge
- Continuity supervisor : Jacques Maillot
- Production Designer : Antoine Ranson
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Themes : Human nature , Solitude/loneliness, Suicide
- Production language : No dialogue
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1990
- Runtime : 8 min 3 seconds
- Visa number : 74.878
- Visa issue date : 02/10/1990
- Production formats : Super 16
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.33
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : None
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