Shadow-Machine
Elise Florenty, Marcel Türkowsky FR, DE, JP, 2016, 14', DCP
One indigo summer night, in a rather tropical suburban Japan, several isolated human and non-human beings find themselves caught in a game of shadows and lights more or less threatening. Operators dressed in black seem to manipulate them as they abandon themselves to the idea of being puppets. Yet here no ventriloquism, at most a few tears, or a laughter hidden behind a scream, are tearing the silence of the night apart... Shadow-Machine is reminiscent of early cinema: the origin of the photograph out of the shadow play, the eerie animation of animate and inanimate (overcoming death), experimenting within the possibilities of film machinery and montage as well as a reflection both anxious and liberating on the domination of an author on his player.
Sat 30/9 Kino SC 18:00
