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In Repetito Religare (2023)

Experimental film, 19’21’’
16:9 / HD digital file / color / stereo / without dialogue

Co-directed with Audrey Colard, 
Actors : Guy Trier et Boris Gillot

Self-produced

_{3rd place in Experimental category, Josiah Media Festival 2023}

_{Josiah Media Festival, Online 2023/24}

_{San Martín cultural center, Videobardo, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2023
Elizabeth Czerczuk theater, Formes radicales, Paris, France 2023
Kino im Künstlerhaus, Reels on Wheels, Hanover, Germany 2023
Marni theater, L’espace du son, Brussels, Belgium 2023
La Gare Expérimentale, HS Fest, Paris, France 2023}

“ Old, obese and out of breath humanity is still capable of anything else than these attempts of inharmonious dialogue between bodies where what makes a link is also what kills ? This frozen image makes a striking observation of the last hiccups of the caged human being. But life and art are everywhere in the sound, in the musical lapping of the wave, in the irreducible belief that a work of art can save the world from oblivion.

In 1976, a coup d'état triggered a military dictatorship in Argentina. Some inhabitants, close to high-risk personalities, fled Latin America for other countries such as Canada. Away from their homelands, telephones were too expensive, and emigrants recorded "sound postcards" to send to their loved ones back home.

In Repetito Religare's soundtrack is based on several of these recordings, made by the filmmakers' family. It is, first and foremost, a painful work of archiving. It's about a native language that has been abandoned, concealing the story of an intimate suffering. Secondly, it's a new language that is no longer music but cinema, a dialogue between an image and its sound that makes sense, that makes the artwork. “

^{Godot by the Sea : In Repetito Religare
review by David Finkelstein}

^{Exhibition view, The Film Gallery, Paris, France 2023}