Face to Face
Synopsis
My mother sees.
I see the sea.
I see my grandmother with my eyes. I see my mother in my images.
I see the sea on the poster above my grandmother's bed.
My mother sees images that I don't see, and to see her better I created images.
My grandmother is a fixed, stable image, she's in the walls and tapestries.
My mother is in the photos on the tapestries on the walls, moving all the time.
Me, I'm the place. Inside, lost and absent images are substituted:
My mother's visions, and the vision I have of my mother.
I have the images my mother gave me, which are maps.
I look inside for the images, the fluid.
Forget the I, me, my, what's left?
Images of the substitute.
A feminine trinity
Credits
Director (1)
Actresses (2)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : EnsAD - École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs
Full credits (7)
- Screenwriter : Sophie Bosselut
- Directors of Photography : Julien Guillery, Sophie Bosselut
- Assistant director : Élodie Dupuis
- Editors : Julien Bouillon, Coban Beutelstetter
- Sound recordists : Stephy Lokua, Yann Bernard
- Sound Editor : Cédric Perras
- Sound Mixer : Christian Phaure
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary, Experimental
- Sub-genre : Portrait
- Themes : Femininity, Family, Metaphysics
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2009
- Runtime : 13 min
- Production formats : DVCPRO-HD
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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Artistic advisors on the film: Damien Manivel and Michele Galea
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