Country: France
Year: 2009
Duration: 20'
A young girl is walking in a forest. She digs holes with her bare hands
and thinks about religion. As she recites prayers in her mind that
become a dialog with God, she discovers that she has lost her faith.
“As a child I had a very religious education and The Earth under My
Feet is based on my experience of the loss of faith. My desire was to
make a film with a dark fairy-tale tone. A young girl who we know
nothing about walks in a forest. The forest is a place for her to think,
to realize she doesn’t believe in God anymore. I wanted to use two
languages not only because my mother tongue is both French and
English, but also because I wanted to create a shock, an opposition
between faith (French) and its loss (English). I used the sound to create
an oppressive and disturbing atmosphere which inspires fear and makes
nature vibrate.”
Biography
film director
Sophie Sherman
Sophie Sherman (Aix-en-Provence, France, 1980) debuted in 2003 with the short La Parole, followed by the documentary Le temps de Laurène and Changer, a sound video installation for two screens. In 2006 she graduated from the École des beaux-arts of Marseille and the next year she received her master’s degree in documentary cinema from the Université de Provence. In 2008 she made the documentary Philippine and is now working on her post-graduate degree at Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts Contemporains. She lives and works in Lille and Marseille.
FILMOGRAFIA
La parole (cm, 2003), Le temps de
Laurène (cm, doc., 2005), Changer
(cm, 2006), Philippine (doc., 2008),
MUS (cm, 2009), La terre dessous
mes pieds (The Earth under My Feet,
cm, 2009).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto,
sceneggiatura, fotografia,
montaggio, produttore/
director, story, screenplay,
cinematography, film
editing, producer
Sophie Sherman
suono/sound
Iannis Héaulme
interprete e personaggio/
cast and character
Sophie Themlin
(la ragazza/Young Girl)
sceneggiatura, fotografia,
montaggio, produttore/
director, story, screenplay,
cinematography, film
editing, producer
Sophie Sherman
suono/sound
Iannis Héaulme
interprete e personaggio/
cast and character
Sophie Themlin
(la ragazza/Young Girl)
