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Saturday, November 9, 2019 - 19:00
Written by:
Gabriel Abrantes
Cast:
: Liza Lapert, Virgil Vernier, Vimala Pons, Alexis Manenti, Annie Mercier, Caroline Deruas
Cinematography:
Kanamé Onoyama
Editing:
Margarida Lucas
Sound:
Jules Jasko, Matthieu Deniau, Philippe Deschamps
Music:
Gabriel Abrantes
Animation:
Irmã Lúcia (José André, Carlos Almeida)
Producer:
Justin Taurand, Gabriel Abrantes
Production:
Les Films du Bélier, Artificial Humors
THE MARVELOUS MISADVENTURES OF THE STONE LADY is loosely inspired on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Fir Tree, penned in 1845. HCA’s story is about a naïf pine tree that wishes it would be cut down and taken from the forest and turned into a Christmas tree. As soon as wish becomes reality, things get pretty dark for the little fir. Likewise, in THE MARVELOUS…, a naïf sculpture wishes she were more than a banal decorative ornament. One night she runs away from the Louvre, out onto the streets of Paris, to confront life and become something more meaningful. Like the young fir, the young sculpture finds out that reality isn’t rosy as she had hoped. (Gabriel Abrantes).
Director:
GABRIEL ABRANTES, born in North Carolina in 1984, is an artist and filmmaker who has produced a significant body of work in film since studying at L’ École National des Beaux-Arts (2005-2006) and Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains, France (2007). In 2018, his first feature, DIAMANTINO, co-directed with Daniel Schmidt, was awarded the Grand Prix at the Semaine de la Critique in Cannes. His short films have been awarded with over forty prizes at film festivals, including the EFA prize at the Berlinale in 2014 and 2016, the Golden Leopard in Locarno IFF in 2010, Jury Prize at San Francisco International Film Festival. He has established A Mutual Respect, a production company that seeks to find alternative means to produce moving-image work.Festivals, awards:
51° Quinzaine des Réalisateurs, Cannes Film Festival, 2019/ Short Film Nominee, European Film Awards, 2019
Curatorial comment:
It’s easy to imagine how, in the mind of the museum guide, the yellow caps worn by a group of children he’s taking on a tour for are slowly becoming yellow vests. He’s talking about social inequality, political art, and class struggle right in front of Eugène Delacroix’s “Liberty Leading the People”. The kids aren’t listening, but an ornamental sculpture is. And it’s right before the night in which the sculpture is magically receiving life – it walks, talks, and, most important, thinks for herself. The sculpture used to be the lumpenproletarian of the museum, stuck between ex-revolutionary and bourgeois artworks such as “Mona Lisa” and a blue Egyptian faience hippopotamus, the stars of the exhibition. But that’s about to change, and the statue is willing to go on the streets of Paris, right in the middle of protests. ABRANTES’ CGI fairytale follows a political coming of age which tackles both the politics of museums and the ones of street protests. (Călin Boto, BIEFF 2019)