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ARDENT OTHER

Alice Brygo
France, 2023
16 min.

A stunned crowd faces a fire. The threat has no name, a diffuse anguish spreads. Fear needs to be conjured, fire must be turned into a sign.

In April 2019, our screens were invaded by images of the devastating fire that took over the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris — a disaster live-broadcast through thousands of cameras pointed in the same direction by a crowd overcome by shock. In Ardent Other, Alice Brygo turns to look at the crowd itself, recomposing the scene in apocalyptic-like 3D imagery that was generated from photographs taken at that moment. One next to the other, these frozen silhouettes, with their contours almost having also been eroded by the flames, paint a somber fresco of a society torn apart by silent tensions that are ready to ignite at the first spark. Placed off-screen, the fire gains a symbolic dimension of a collective imagination, whose internal ruminations are brought to the foreground in a deafening choir of voices that threatens to erupt in a protest at any moment. (Oana Ghera)

Data proiecție și locație

Wednesday, 27th of September | 20:30

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Premii și festivaluri

Alice Brygo

Alice Brygo graduated from ENSAD Paris and Le Fresnoy. Her artistic practice is situated at the borders between documentary, fantasy cinema and art installation. Her short film Soum premiered in Berlinale Shorts and was awarded Best Student Film in GoShort and Grand Prize at Brive cinema festival.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • CAST: Clara Dessertine
  • SCREENPLAY: Alice Brygo, Paulo Gatabase
  • CINEMATOGRAPHER: Alice Brygo
  • SOUND EDITING: Paul Lajus, Alice Brygo
  • SOUND RECORDING: M’Hand Abadou Djezaira, Clémence Dufieux, Benjamin Poilane
  • SOUND DESIGN: Paul Lajus
  • EDITOR: Alice Brygo
  • COMPOSER: Fatma Pneumonia, Paul Lajus
  • VFX: Nathan Ghali
  • PRODUCED BY: Le Fresnoy
  • PRODUCER: Luc-Jérôme Bailleul

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