In the shadows of Low Life, a secret ceremony dedicated to thirteen guardians of humanity’s common treasures, love and resistance, youth and poetry, equality and difference, insurrection and revolution. Saxifrages – These rootless plants’ windblown destiny is a soft perseverance doubled by an imperceptible intransigence, which, in time, imposes on the hardness of stones a patience that can break them.Read More »
Elisabeth Perceval
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Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval – Saxifrages, quatre nuits blanches AKA Saxifrages, Four White Nights (2021)
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Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval – Quand la maison brûle AKA When the House Burns Down (2022)
2021-2030DocumentaryElisabeth PercevalExperimentalFranceNicolas KlotzPLOT: Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval’s works break down the boundaries between countries, languages and genres. Their new film mixes documentary, acting, dance and song to counteract a “politics of tracking” and advocate a radical change of approach. From the story, of a Brazzaville slave who must follow his master into death, to that of a Senegalese exile who finds himself reincarnated in Barcelona, to the trance of the Bela Vista carnival. When the House Burns Down is a visual poem that celebrates the collective dimension of life.Read More »
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Nicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval – Mata Atlantica (2016)
2011-2020BrazilDocumentaryDramaElisabeth PercevalNicolas Klotz