For The Lost
LES TOURMENTES
Belgium, France, 2014, 77'
Depicting the real as a poetic possibility of transfiguration of the real itself. The blizzard is seen not only as a physical event of nature but also as an image of insanity, of being lost in the nonsense of the world. Isolated in healthcare centres, the mentally ill die forgotten: for this reason, cinema can work to keep alive less memory than its necessity. The shepherd, a key figure in the cinema of the Belgian director, in Les Tourmentes becomes the guardian of memory, the one who stands as protector of the hopeless and of the stories of men and women engulfed in insanity among the blizzards of the winter in Lozère and the ruins of ancient buildings.
The vision of this film is rooted in the short-circuit between archaic and historic past, giving life to images marked by a lyrical will and the need to see beyond whatever meets the eye: “Kathleen Raine (poetess and translator of William Blake) wrote, ‘Choose your myth and live it.’ It’s what I have tried to do with my films, particularly with Les Tourmentes” (P-Y. Vandeweerd).
Local Time
- Timezone: America/Los_Angeles
- Date: 08 Nov 2022
- Time: 11:30
Location
- Spazio Alfieri - Via dell'Ulivo, 8, 50122 Florence
Location 2
- www.mymovies.it
Organizer
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Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd
Pierre-Yves Vandeweerd is a Belgian filmmaker. After graduating in Anthropology and African Civilisations, Vandeweerd has been professor in several European universities, including the Université Libre in Bruxelles, the Haute Ecole d’Arts et de design (Head) de Genève, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. Since 2011, he has been working as a programmer for the festival Les États Généraux du documentaire in Lussas. Mostly shot on 16 and super 8 mm film, his films bring together, through a poetic cinematographic gesture, forgotten wars and destinies, lost territories, incursions to the borders of reality and reason. His films have been shot in Mauritania (Nemadis, Years Without News [2001], Faraway Roots [2002], Drowned by Oblivion [2007]), in the Western Sahara(The Dormants [2008], Lost Land [2011]), in Sudan (Closed district [2004]), in France on the Mont Lozère (For The Lost [2014]). His last two films, The Eternals (2017) and Inner Lines (2022) were shot in Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Turkey. Inner Lines (2022), was selected for the International Competition of Visions du Réel 2022.
