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Runtime:

82 min.

Year of Production:

2020

Country:

Frankreich

Director:

Patric Chiha

Cast:

Gisèle Vienne
Marine Chesnais
Philip Berlin
Sylvain Decloitre
Kerstin Daley-Baradel

Production Company:

Aurora Films

Berlinale Section:

Panorama

Berlinale Category:

Documentary Film

Teddy Award:

Best Documentary/ Essay Film

The film about Gisèle Vienne’s dance piece “Crowd” is a techno party gone rave, awash with repetitive movements, physical and emotional encounters between fifteen bodies charged with sexual energy. The camera keeps us plunged into the heart of the choreography, repeatedly zooming out to allow for an insight into the rehearsal process. Through staged one-on-one conversations between the performers, we learn about the background story of their characters. In this way, the characters in the choreography become the characters of the film: there is a trans* boy, a “Nazi” boy that desires a gay boy, a girl attracted to troubled people, and a
woman who exudes raw sexuality. Reality and fiction begin to blend. Loud electronic music accompanies the ecstatic bodies moving in slow motion. The cinema becomes a rave and an extension of the stage, and a dance documentary turns into an exhilarating neon-lit fresco of a young, international troupe.

Continuing his exploration of alienation, hyper-sensuality, emotional violence, human tenderness, and performance of (queer) sexuality, Patric Chiha has created a transformative film with a distinctive style, dripping with visual and emotional intensity.

BIOGRAFIE Patric Chiha

FILMOGRAFIE Patric Chiha (selection)

2020 Si c'était de l'amour  2020 Si c'était de l'amour  2016 Brüder der Nacht  2014 Boys Like Us  2012 Sol LeWitt  2009 Domaine  2007 Ou se trouve le chef de la prison?  2006 Home  2005 Le jardin  2005 Les messieurs  2004 Casa ugalde  2002 Albertine!  2001 De Vienne 

Patric Chiha @IMDb
Si c'était de l'amour @IMDb
Interview with Patric Chiha and Gisèle Vienne on 'Si c’était de l’amour'
Trailer

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