Synopsis
Bassin d'attraction appears to be a fake animal documentary. The film questions the sacred relationship to objects and the different status they are given throughout their lives. Precious objects (ex-votos from the ETRU National Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia in Rome), ornamentation from churches, or Roman sculptures, as well as contemporary detritus, rub shoulders and evolve together in a kind of amniotic liquid. The usually inert forms have been transformed into autonomous creatures: these composite beings interact, gesticulate, attract each other, react. By adopting the point of view of the objects, by insufflating them a dose of desire, by granting them a semblance of soul, the artist reconsiders the border between the living and the non-living.
Credits
Director (1)
Full credits (9)
- Screenwriter : Jonathan Pêpe
- Director of Photography : Jonathan Pêpe
- Music Composer : Jonathan Pêpe
- Editor : Jonathan Pêpe
- Producer : Jonathan Pêpe
- Sound editors : Melissa Ryke, Jonathan Pêpe
- Grader : Jonathan Pêpe
- Sound mixers : Melissa Ryke, Jonathan Pêpe
- Sound design : Jonathan Pêpe, Melissa Ryke
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Experimental, Animated film
- Themes : The absurd, Ocean, Beliefs
- Production language : No dialogue
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2021
- Runtime : 15 min 50 seconds
- Production formats : Computer generated images
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
Resources
Website(1)
https://jonathan-pepe.com/Bassin-d-attraction
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🏆 This short film won the César Award 2024 for Best Short Film (Fiction)