Shorts
Reviews, previews and highlights of features and shorts from the myDylarama team and guest writers.
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Interview with Romain Dumont, director of Au plaisir les ordures ! (See You Garbage!)
1 February 2022, by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde CouturierFor Christmas, three garbage collectors, Elijah, Nino and Belz, are surprised to be invited to dinner at the home of the Prime Minister and the First Lady. They go there, enthusiastic and candid, without suspecting that on the menu is a painful series of disillusionments and manipulations. Au plaisir les ordures is a dramatic comedy with the feel of a revolutionary tale, which attempts to explore the encounter between the well-spoken contempt of the political class and a sudden awareness (...) -
Interview with Olivier van Malderghem, director of Au Circuit (At the Circuit)
1 February 2022, by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde CouturierEvery weekend, Anne and Jeff go to the Mettet motorcycle circuit. A racing driver, Jeff is training. Anne takes his lap times. Occasionally, at the Au Circuit café, she negotiates bitterly on the phone the loan of the motorbike. Anne’s gaze then meets that of Jacques, a client who, like his sidekick René is part of the furniture. They never exchange a word. One day, Jacques sets off. He joins her. Why did you decide to shoot in black in white? The idea for this film came to me during a (...) -
Interview with Ramata-Toulaye Sy, director of Astel
1 February 2022, by Brasserie du Court teamIt’s October, the end of the rainy season in Fouta, an isolated region in the north of Senegal. Astel (13) accompanies her father every day in the bush. Together, they look after their herd of cows. But one day, in the middle of the desert, the meeting between the young girl and a shepherd disrupts the peaceful daily life between Astel and her father. Where did inspiration for Astel come from? From my personal experience, from the strong bond I had with my father when I was young and (...) -
Interview with Michael Graversen and Florian Elabdi, co-directors of Ghosts of Mória
1 February 2022, by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde CouturierWhen Europe’s Moria refugee camp burns to the ground, two friends from Aleppo choose to stay in the ruins and survive by scavenging metal in the apocalyptic world left by the fire. But they are in a race against the clock as the metal is taken by Roma people filling up their cars and Greek authorities filling up trucks with excavators, while the police is on the searching for fugitive refugees. What made you decide to make a documentary about the refugees from the camp of Moria? Moria (...) -
Interview with Marthe Sébille, director of Que la Bête monte
1 February 2022, by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamAfter a bus accident in the middle of nowhere, Lupa decides to tag along with another passenger, Alban, who is determined to reach the nearest village on foot. Crossing through fields and rivers, they slowly go off-course in a strange forest. Where did you get the idea for this rather supernatural adventure? This project has been in development for a very long time. It arose from life experience and my feminist and ecological convictions. A few years ago, I found myself stuck in a (...) -
Interview with Varun Raman and Tom Hancock, co-directors of Man or Tree
30 January 2022, by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde CouturierIn the wilderness, a tree begins to question whether it may actually be a man tripping on hallucinogens. How did you come up with the idea for Man or Tree? It is based on a true story – the real-life experience of a friend, who had an intense salvia trip and had become convinced that he had lived the life of a tree for hundreds of years. Towards the end of the trip, he pulled his roots out of the ground, only to find himself, standing up, snapping out of his trip, and realizing he’s (...) -
Interview with Pablo Serret de Ena, director of Useless Opera Singers
30 January 2022, by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde CouturierAn unknown force pushes a man to a place of extraordinary characteristics in the high Arctic. In its limits, is where he may find the answer. Between an introspective adventure and the poetry of the absurd. How much are you related to absurdism? Not much really, or at least consciously. It usually interests me whenever there is a conflict between meanings, or when these are created by confronting apparently very different subjects. In the film everything is connected under some kind of (...) -
Interview with Marin Gérard, director of À l’ombre l’après-midi
30 January 2022, by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamA seemingly ordinary day in the life of Quentin, a Parisian film-lover. After going to the cinema twice, he runs into a former college friend, listens to a girls’ conversation in a bar, then goes and meet his best friend, has a beer, and ends up spending the evening in the Parc Montsouris, where he meets Lise. What were the circumstances of you writing the script for À l’ombre l’après-midi? I wrote most of the script at the end of 2020, during the second lockdown. It had been rattling (...) -
Interview with Assaad Khoueiry, director of A Broken Fan
29 January 2022, by Abla Kandalaft, Brasserie du Court teamAdel, a desperate jobless father, gets out on the streets of Beirut hoping for change. Can you tell us more about the conditions that have led your protagonist to take action? When you are the only breadwinner in your family and you have to provide them with food and the most basic needs of life, pay the school tuition fees, the rent and the bills. Then you find yourself jobless without any income, you start feeling useless and obliged to take action. That’s the case of Adel, a 42 (...) -
Interview with Fan Sissoko, director of On the Surface
29 January 2022, by Brasserie du Court team, Clotilde CouturierAda goes swimming in the Icelandic sea and reflects on raising a child in a country that feels nothing like home. As she enters the freezing water, she relives her traumatic pregnancy. Soon her swimming eases. Facing her fears is helping her heal. Has animation always been an area of interest to you? I’ve always loved animation, as a child of course, but also as a grown up. It’s such a beautiful and fascinating process. But it hasn’t been part of my practice until On the Surface. It’s (...)