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Extra Life (And Decay) film image; obscure object under bright purple lighting

Extra Life (And Decay)

In an ode to the multitude, a polyphonic cast of animals, minerals, and vegetables declare their collective resistance against labour exploitation.

Director
Featuring

Isabelle Lagarde, Stéphanie Lagarde, Suzanne van der Schaaf, Rachele Borghi, Teresa Castro

Credits
Country of Origin

Netherlands/France

Year

2025

Language

In French with English subtitles

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18+
22 min
Art, Music & Photography Documentary Experimental & Avant Garde Family Relations Shorts Women Directors

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Credits & Director

Producer

Stéphanie Lagarde

Screenwriter

Stéphanie Lagarde

Cinematography

Enrico Floriddia, Constantin Jopeck, Stéphanie Lagarde, Théo Levillain, Pieter van der Schaaf, Rune Ségaut, Clémence Warnier

Editor

Stéphanie Lagarde, Rik Chaubet

Original Music

Jaike Stambach

Stéphanie Lagarde headshot

Stéphanie Lagarde

Stéphanie Lagarde is a visual artist and filmmaker whose works explore human strategies of occupation and the control of space throughout systems of objects, signs, and political/social structures. Her works assemble sounds, images, and texts from different sources to create conflicting scenarios, and have been presented at festivals such as IFFR (Rotterdam), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland), Transmediale (Berlin), BISFF (Beijing), Berlin Atonal, Videonale (Bonn), DOK Leipzig, Rencontres Internationales de Montréal (Quebec), DocsMX (Mexico), Vienna Shorts (Austria), Videoex (Switzerland), and Arkipel Jakarta (Indonesia).

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