L'enfant de la haute mer + Le voyageur du silence + Le puit et le pendule
The After Midnight Archives, episode 9 : Dead & Alive
(Les Archives d’après minuit, épisode 9 : Morts & vifs)
Lucas Hesling and Christopher Marco
- 2022
- France
- Experimental fantaisy mashup
- 7mn
- French
- Color
The child of the high seas
(L'enfant de la haute mer)
Roger Kahane
- 1968
- France
- Fantasy
- 24mn
- French
- Black and white
Supported by François Périer's voice, this adaptation of Jules Supervielle's novel is a poetic fantasy gem. A little girl who never ages wanders through a mysteriously deserted seaside village in Brittany...
The silence voyager
(Le voyageur du silence)
Alberto Cavalcanti
- 1978
- France
- Fantasy
- 26mn
- French
- Color
The director of the ventriloquist skit in Au coeur de la nuit (In the Heart of the Night) and of the remarkable Je Suis un Fugitif (I am a Fugitive) leads us into distressing strangeness, by trapping his talkative voyager with no luggage in the cabin of a train that seems to be going nowhere, in the sole company of a man with a bizarre diction.
The pit and the pendulum
(Le puits et le pendule)
Alexandre Astruc
- 1974
- France
- Fantasy
- 37mn
- French
- Black and white
At the same time Roger Corman was in his Poe period, Alexandre Astruc, a Nouvelle Vague filmmaker, tackled the fantasy genius for the first time. Avoiding baroque excess, using many excerpts from the original text, Astruc's streamlined and rigorous directing allowed him to work on fear and install a gradual suffocating feeling.
Credits
- With : Maurice Ronet
- Screenplay : Alexandre Astruc
- Photography : Nicolas Hayer
- Editing : Sophie Bhaud, Monique Chalmandrier
- Music by : Antoine Duhamel
- Production : ORTF
Screenings
12/09 • 14h00 • Screen 100
Screening in partnership with the Institute of National Archives
Screening presented by Pauline Baduel and Gautier Roos, with Lucas Hesling and Christopher Marco
