Interview with ERIC BAUDELAIRE (Une fleur à la bouche) | L'Alternativa 2022
L'Alternativa, 29è Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona
Interview with ÉRIC BAUDELAIRE, director of "Une fleur à la bouche", presented in l'Alternativa 2022 in the context of "She Shoots" section. Interviewed by Mariana Freijomil (ACCEC).
Éric Baudelaire (1973) is a Franco-American visual artist, photographer and filmmaker based in Paris. His training as a political scientist drives a sharp, socially committed streak running throughout his work. Part documentary, part essay, part art installation, his films, including Un film dramatique (2019) and Letters to Max (2014), have circulated widely in film festivals such as Locarno, Toronto and Rotterdam and been shown at exhibitions worldwide, combined with a range of other materials, formats and performances.
She Shoots
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Filmmaking remains a male-dominated art and industry, and women still have to strive to get ahead both in front of and behind the camera. Taking our cue from the She Cuts parallel section at l’Alternativa 2018, this year we are showcasing women cinematographers whose keen eye helps shape the visions of the world we see on our screens.
Cinematographers, or directors of photography, play a key role in making a film, since they determine how a creative vision takes shape and which aesthetic and visual sensations to bring to the fore, while weaving a rich web of relationships not only between the on-screen characters but also with the viewing audience. This year’s parallel section aims to raise the profile of talented women working as directors of photography both in Spain and further afield, striking examples of team leaders with remarkable striking creative and technical skills.
Programmed in conjunction with the Filmoteca de Catalunya, this section comprises three international feature films shot by cinematographers Claire Mathon, Agnès Godard and Hélène Louvart, and three short films shot by cinematographers from Spain, or with close ties to Spain: Neus Ollé, Daniela Cajías and Lara Vilanova.
Une fleur à la bouche
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The first act of this diptych is an observational documentary of the hustle and bustle at the world’s largest flower market, where humans are mere cogs in the machine, utterly detached from the forms of nature they handle as part of a mechanical process on an infinite production line. The second act freely adapts a Luigi Pirandello play about time running out and how to live through the days that remain: as dusk falls in the city, a poet, fortune teller or prophet with a melancholic air wanders the streets in silence, observing his surroundings until he encounters a stranger in a bar by the railway station. Claire Mathon’s lucid cinematography creates a series of objective and distant yet also probing and highly detailed images. This film was inspired by Éric Baudelaire’s installation Death Passed My Way and Stuck This Flower in My Mouth (Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, 2021).
L'Alternativa 29
18 Nov - 4 Dec
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