La rivière

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Note of intent

Violence is omnipresent in series, video games… However, it’s not about this one that I want to talk about. That which obsesses me is the hidden violence of those “who love us”, that we receive as an inheritance. It seems to me that this violence is incurable and is passed on from generation to generation. I lived several months in Japan and I was marked by the animism in Shintoism. I want to tell how we can really be saved by our relationship with the living if we surrender to it completely.

Synopsis

In the heart of wild nature, Brune (25) raises her son Léo (8) in her mother’s house. Her brother Alex (35), suffering from paranoid psychosis, is the father figure. Brune feels indebted to Alex, whose crises punctuate daily life. Their mother is lost in denial. They live in a clan, with their own rules. Brune has an animistic relationship with the river that flows at the bottom of the garden, she remains there in apnea until asphyxiation. She shares with Eli, a neighbor, a mutual attraction and her desire overwhelms her. Leo takes example from Alex, he is moved by a growing aggressiveness which makes Brune see the worst. One day, while swimming underwater, Brune no longer feels the need to come to the surface. This cosmic connection to the river gives her the strength to face his brother.

Visual concept

The body occupies a central place in my work. The image in my short films is sensorial. I like to shoot outside. I want the river to be a character in itself, it will be the place of abandonment, of freedom. On camera, the shots in the water, its texture, will embody it. There are natural lakes in Iceland where the water is warm and like milk. Bathing in them was for me a mystical and poetic experience, almost intra-uterine, that I would like to transcribe to the image.