The starting point of this film is extremely simple: a fixed cam- era, a fixed microphone, a fixed setting in black and white and a fixed idea… For a month, I asked my friends, acquaintances, people I passed in the street, people I knew well, people I didn’t know so well, people I did’nt know at all, to tell me a love story. Or, more precisely, a story about a declaration of love. Some came, others didn’t. Some told me a story about a declaration of love, others didn’t. One person took the opportunity to make me a declaration. The others didn’t.
a An orange blossom cake? A handrail in an airport bus? Jumping across a river and ending up with a muddy leg? A flight of dragonflies? Radical and immediate revolution? Declaring one’s undying love before midnight on New Year’s eve? A pier in the Mediterranean? (the very one where Anthony and Cleopatra…) Saying, or not saying, your name? A tall story in a dream? Sleeping by chance in a strange’s bed? An early morning sandwich?
Production : Brute Production
Coproduction : CBA
Distribution : Morituri
2008:
Festival Couleur Café, Belgium, 06/08
2004:
dans le cadre de l’exposition internationale « Depicting Love », projeté conjointement à Murcia (Centro Párraga, Universitad), à Madrid (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia) et à Berlin (Kunstlerhaus Bethanien), Spain – Germany, 04/04
2003:
Festival de La Rochelle, France, 07/03
2000:
Festival Filmer à tout prix, Belgium, 11/00
1999:
5th Mostra de Video Independent & Fenòmens Interactius, Spain, 01/99
Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand (14ème festival d’arts vidéo), France, 01/99
XVII festival cinematografico internacional del Uruguay, Uruguay, 03//99
2nd Muestra de Video Independiente de Canarias, Spain, 05/99
Colloque FRIPSI à Grenoble, France, 05/99
Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona, Spain, 06/99
1998:
Festival du Film Psy de Lorquin, France, 06/98
Festival du cinéma belge en Cévennes France, 08/98
FIFF – Festival international du film francophone de Namur, Belgium, 09/98
Festival du Film de Santé mentale à Namur, Belgium, 10/98
Instants vidéos de Manosque, France, 11/98
Festival Méditerranée à Marseille, France, 11/98
Festival ARGOS, Belgium, 11/98
Cinéma Nova (Bruxelles)
Cinéma Odyssée (Strasbourg)
Cinéma L’Eldorado (Dijon)
Centre Pompidou (Paris)
Atelier 340 (Bruxelles)
Université Louis Lumière (Lyon)
Musée d’Art contemporain de Barcelone