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Saturday, March 31, 2018 - 21:00
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Sunday, April 1, 2018 - 18:30
Written by:
Lucien Monot
Cast:
Daniel Richard
Cinematography:
Lucien Monot, Davide Prudente
Editing:
Lucien Monot
Sound:
Lucien Monot, Adrien Kessler
Producer:
Jean Perret
Production:
Haute école d'art et de design – Genève
Romanian Premiere
In order to run away from a monotonous everyday life, 63 years old Daniel found an activity which gives him a way to exist : working as an extra in movies. For ten years, he has travelled from one set to the next and put on costumes of various characters. It is the fictional side of cinema that makes this man dream and leave behind the humdrum of an ordinary life. (HEAD Genève).
Lucien Monot's Genesis (the title of the film is Daniel's stage name) is a skilful cinematic account not of the man himself, but of the meeting between a young filmmaker and someone elderly, with a mutual passion for cinema.
Lucien Monot's Genesis (the title of the film is Daniel's stage name) is a skilful cinematic account not of the man himself, but of the meeting between a young filmmaker and someone elderly, with a mutual passion for cinema.
Director:
Contact:
lucienmonot[at]hotmail[dot]fr
Festivals, awards:
- Pardino d'Argento and Special Mention – Locarno Film Festival 2016
- Best Film - Nahal Student Film Festival 2016
- Athens Film Festival 2017
- Solothurn Film Festival 2017
- Fribourg International Film Festival 2017
- Open City Documentary Film Festival London 2017
Curatorial comment:
An Extra becomes Extraordinary. Lucien Monot's film succeeds to bring the spectator in only a few minutes into the intimacy of the life of this simple man, who becomes touching, whimsical and familiar to our eyes. The texture of the film is beautifully rendered like a portrait painting, a tableau vivant, with colors and the emotion and emulsion of the 16mm film. The rhythm is musical and resembles a partition of the conductor. A gentle deep portrait of an Extra Celluloid being! (Marie Losier, Cut-Up)
An Extra becomes Extraordinary. Lucien Monot's film succeeds to bring the spectator in only a few minutes into the intimacy of the life of this simple man, who becomes touching, whimsical and familiar to our eyes. The texture of the film is beautifully rendered like a portrait painting, a tableau vivant, with colors and the emotion and emulsion of the 16mm film. The rhythm is musical and resembles a partition of the conductor. A gentle deep portrait of an Extra Celluloid being! (Marie Losier, Cut-Up)