Extra Life (and Decay)
A polyphonic narrator – filmmaker, parent, forest, insects, fungi, childcare worker – declares their absolute refusal of labor exploitation, and their necessity to join collective bodies in resistance. Who ordered legibility? In an incantation to conjure authority, the film unfolds the connections between the inventions of nuclear families and managed forest plots as controllable, normalized units of profitability.
Extra Life (and Decay) celebrates hospitality as a survival tool to fight morbid politics of isolation. An ode to the multitude, the illegible, the unmeasurable.
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Runtime
21 min -
Country
France, Netherlands -
Year of Presentation
2025 -
Year of Production
2025 -
Director
Stéphanie Lagarde -
Cast
Isabelle Lagarde, Stéphanie Lagarde, Suzanne van der Schaaf, Rachele Borghi, Teresa Castro, Sophie Lapalu, Janna Zhiri, enrico floriddia, sarah netter -
Production Company
Stéphanie Lagarde, Video Power -
Berlinale Section
Forum Expanded -
Berlinale Category
Short Film
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Biography Stéphanie Lagarde
Stéphanie Lagarde is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her works explore human strategies of occupation and the control of space throughout systems of objects, signs, and political/social structures. She creates conflicting scenarios from assemblages of sounds, images, and texts drawn from multiple sources. Her films have been presented at festivals such as International Film Festival Rotterdam, Transmediale, Berlin Atonal, DocsMX, and Arkipel Jakarta.
Filmography Stéphanie Lagarde
2018 Déploiements (Deployments) | 2019 Rocky Tales Of Occupation | 2021 Minimal Sway While Starting My Way Up | 2025 Extra Life (and Decay)