Documentary Films - Competition 2012 / Nos jours, absolument, doivent être illuminés / France 2012
The latest picture from Jean-Gabriel Périot, one of the most distinctive figures of short documentary filmmaking, takes us to a prison in Orléans, France, to witness a nontraditional concert performed by the local inmates, whose touching songs may be enjoyed (thanks to loudspeakers) by chance passersby.
A highly unusual concert took place in Orléans, France, on May 28, 2011. Speakers were arranged outside the local prison so that the inmates’ heartfelt renditions could be broadcast live. Luckily, the concert was attended by a highly prominent short documentarist, award-winning French director Jean-Gabriel Périot. His powerful film looks at how chance auditors experience the prisoners’ touching ballads. On one side of the walls we can hear imploring voices, on the other we see the eloquent emotions on the faces of the passersby.
22 min / Color, DIGIBETA
Director Jean-Gabriel Périot
/ Screenplay Jean-Gabriel Périot
/ Dir. of Photography Vianney Lambert, Denis Gravouil
/ Music Gérald Kurdian
/ Producer Cécile Lestrade
/ Production Alter Ego production
/ Contact Alter Ego Production
Jean-Gabriel Périot (b. 1974, France) is the creator of numerous short films for which he developed his own particular editing style while working with archive materials. His movies, combining a documentary approach with animation and an experimental form, in large part deal with violence in human history. The films Dies Irae (2005), Even If She Had Been a Criminal… (Eût-elle été criminelle..., 2006), and Nijuman no borei (2007) were presented at many international festivals.
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