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BEAR

Morgane Frund
Switzerland, 2022
19 min.

A seemingly innocuous project – the digitization of the archives of an amateur filmmaker who made a hobby out of filming bears – turns into a wholly different process when the images reveal more than just natural landscapes. A confrontation about the power of a gaze and its voyeuristic violence.

How can you actively deconstruct the male gaze? How can you confront it, especially when it attempts to become opaque? In Bear, Morgane Frund tries to find an answer to these questions when she discovers that the archive she is digitizing contains dozens of objectifying shots of unknown women, captured in public spaces by an elderly amateur who appears to be a regular, sympathetic old man. At the same time, Frund reveals one of the fundamental, ontological conditions of non-fictional cinema, whether it’s the classical documentary method or working with found footage and archives: one will never be able to precisely predict what the process will lead them to discover, nor where things are ultimately headed to. (Flavia Dima)

Data proiecție și locație

Thursday, 28th of September | 18:00

Cinemateca Eforie, Strada Eforie 2
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Morgane Frund

Morgane Frund was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. She studied Film Studies, English and German at UNIL (University of Lausanne). From 2019 to 2022 Morgane undertook BA studies in Video at HSLU (Hochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst). Active in the fields of documentary film, video essay and performance arts.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • SCREENPLAY: Morgane Frund
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY: Samuel Röösli
  • EDITING: Selin Dettwiler
  • MUSIC: Peter Leipold
  • SOUND & SOUND DESIGN: Kathleen Moser
  • PRODUCER: Volko Kamensky
  • PRODUCED BY: Volko Kamensky, Studienrichtung Video, Hochschule Luzern

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