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2011 Festival Short Films (March 24-27)

Director of photography Sara Sponga presents Le Concile lunatique

directors/screenwriters Christophe Gautry, Arnaud Demuynck running time 13 min general audience

Synopsis

A young man opens the window of his attic room and discovers a lunar landscape which submerges him and threatens to imprison him in an eternal sheet of ice. He closes the window to escape this vision and hears from deep inside his soul the sound of a poem being sung. “Methinks it is time to be reborn mocking," he calls out to a singing streetlamp that has come up to his window.

This short is part of a collection of movies dedicated to French romantic poets from the 19th century. Like La Vita nuova for Gérard de Nerval and Un spectacle interrompu for Stéphane Mallarmé, Le Concile lunatique is a cinematographic palimpsest directly inspired by the work and life of Jules Laforgue.

director/screenwriter
Christophe Gautry

director/screenwriter
Arnaud Demuynck