A Girl From Ouessant
Synopsis
Ouessant Island is farthest to the west, right at the very tip of Brittany. The last piece of land before America. In the past, all the men spent their time working at sea and the island was inhabited almost entirely by women. The film's director immerses us in the island's archives and, floating between dream and reality, takes on the identity of Barba, a girl from Ouessant, whose father disappeared at sea without leaving a trace. How does one then mourn? Between anthropological documentary and fiction, the film takes the form of an ethnographic tale.
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- Executive Producers : Michigan Films, Mains d'Œuvres
Full credits (13)
- Screenwriter : Éléonore Saintagnan
- Directors of Photography : Éléonore Saintagnan, Grégoire Motte-Saintagnan
- Composers : Rosemary Standley, Dom La Nena
- Editor : Frédéric Dupont
- Sound Recordist : Romain Ozanne
- Foreign producers : Alice Lemaire, Sébastien Andres
- Producer : Éléonore Saintagnan
- Line Producer : Nicolas Lebecque
- Voice-over : Éléonore Saintagnan
- Production manager : Alice Lemaire
- Grader : Nicolas Lebecque
- Sound Mixer : Romain Ozanne
- Participants : Éléonore Saintagnan, Edgar Motte-Saintagnan, Grégoire Motte-Saintagnan, Ann Stouvenel, Yang Chao
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Research - Experimental, Video art, Fairy tale
- Themes : Ethnography, Religion, Psychoanalysis, Traditions
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Belgium, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 50% French (Belgium, France)
- Production year : 2018
- Runtime : 28 min
- Production formats : AVCHD
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Dolby 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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