Lettre de prison

Patrick Ledoux & 60' — 1979

I made this film to explain through the image, that is to say ultimately through sensations – which was both indefinable and lamentable in detention: isolation, moral solitude, the struggle of every moment against more or less mild” attacks, but repeated in a chronometric manner. The prison is not violent … it is sweet and life is totally artificial: this is where the real torture is found. Imagine that what you will see in this film continues for several years, and understand that we can come out of it if not half crazy, at least very difficult to “recover” in our modern societies. I wanted to make a cinematographic experience (in addition to the message that constitutes the film): that of making an hour-long film in a single place, without relying on any aesthetic, with a single actor (I wanted Alexandre Von Sivers’ game as sober as possible), without a word of dialogue. “

Belgium

Production: GAMMA Films
Co-production: CBA, RTBF Liège & Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF)

Réalisation
Patrick Ledoux
Scenario
Patrick Ledoux
DOP
Claude Michiels
Sound
Dominique Warnier
With
Alexandre Von Sivers
Image Format
16mm
Languages OV
FR
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