In an ode to the multitude, a polyphonic cast of animals, minerals, and vegetables declare their collective resistance against labour exploitation.
Isabelle Lagarde, Stéphanie Lagarde, Suzanne van der Schaaf, Rachele Borghi, Teresa Castro
Netherlands/France
2025
In French with English subtitles
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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
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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