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Synopsis: This film deals with a situation where a fellow student fainted at the presentation of her semester work during a critique session. She fell on her own sculpture that dealt with the method of criticism. What were the preconditions that the framework of the institutional reality were disrupted at once? How did each one behave and how is the event remembered? The text layer encircles the recalled situation, recounts, parallelizes and contrasts the different versions. The dialogues or rather monologues do not come from the psychology of the characters, but represent positions of the witnesses. The cinematic dispositive gradually reveals the reconstructed spatial situation of the event.
Year:
2014
14 min
201 Views


No, thanks.

I thought your mom

dumped you last year.

Big liar!

Very interesting!

So I'm a liar?

Tell my life story!

You know it so well.

- You said so.

- Don't be shy!

What a chick!

She knows everything about everyone.

You describe my mom

and I'll do your dad.

- Now there's a theme!

- What?

We each go as someone in school.

I'll be Charlie!

Gastine,

with his soccer hair-do.

You've got the same one!

He's right!

The Haustoria will suck

the sap from its victim.

This is the Cuscuta Reflexa,

a monster from Southeast Asia.

As it sucks the life from a geranium,

it develops tentacles,

which is why

the dodders are called

"devil's hair" in French.

In the end, the geranium

will die.

So will the dodder.

To survive,

it needs another plant

in close proximity...

Hi, Sarah, how are you?

Great.

Hold on, I'll get her.

Charlie!

Sarah's on the phone.

Wanna take it downstairs?

- What?

- Sarah's on the phone.

Say I'm not here.

I already said you were!

How will I look?

- Take it!

- What a pain!

Why'd you do that?

I could ask the same thing.

In front of everyone,

you talk about my mother like that,

as if I were some liar.

- Listen...

- Let me finish, please.

You were right, our safari

wasn't last year, it was 2 years ago.

- But you said...

- So I made a mistake.

Can't I make a mistake?

You threw it in my face.

Now everyone thinks I'm a liar.

It's hard enough to be here

without my mother. I'm a stranger.

I'm such a wreck.

I'm sorry, I didn't know.

- Are you my friend or what?

- Of course.

I don't know what came over me.

I forgive you. Let's forget it.

- I feel so bad.

- It happens.

We won't mention it again.

See you tomorrow!

No more sulking.

Big kiss.

Thanks.

Kisses.

Bye!

- See you tomorrow!

- See you!

Have a nice evening!

Who's she?

Who's that?

Hi!

Who is it?

Is it you?

- Who do you think?

- I don't believe it.

What time is it?

Where were you?

School.

It's a mess.

Sorry.

This is no hotel!

There's nothing to eat.

And to drink?

No problem there!

Change your tone.

You disgust me.

Don't slam doors!

You hear me, Sarah?

Mom, please, stop.

Stop.

Stop it.

F***ing stop.

Stop that.

Stop!

Look!

Sh*t!

Didn't you get the text?

Didn't you get the text?

You were supposed to send it.

You look so cute.

Come in!

Stop!

I miss you.

I'm here.

No, you're not.

You don't listen to me.

Yes, I do.

Recognize me?

Recognize me?

It's me!

Sylvie the fly!

You okay?

Why are you crying?

I drank too much.

Sylvie will wipe your nose!

What's going on?

Between us?

I came here to have fun.

So keep your moods to yourself.

You're not really mean.

Great, that's reassuring.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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