Histoires d'amour

Yaël André & 58' — 1997

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?

Belgium

Production : Brute Production
Coproduction : CBA

Distribution : Morituri

Réalisation
Yaël André
Scenario
Yaël André
DOP
Samuel Dravet, Tommaso Fiorelli, Anne-Françoise Bersou
Sound
Samuel Dravet, Tommaso Fiorelli, Anne-Françoise Bersou
Image editor
Matyas Veress
Mix
Mathieu Cox
With
Vincent Van Osta, Isabelle Dierckx, Sophie Leleu, Patricia Gélise, Fred Mons, Christiane Van Loey, Marie Verwacht, Laurence Vielle, Roby Morsi, Noël Godin, Grazziella Boggiano (in order of appearance)
Image Format
Beta
Languages OV
FR
Available subtitles
FR, EN, DE, ES, IT
Festivals

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

Projections (non-exhaustive list)

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

Other films from Yaël André

Wandering Cats

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