28° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ONDE - CORTOMETRAGGI

LES MAISONS DE FEU

by Barraud Antoine
Country: France
Year: 2010
Duration: 15'


fire houses

The director of United Red Army (2008), Koji Wakamatsu, who had been personally involved in the political conflict of the 1970s in Japan, reflects on the idea of cinema as a weapon against power and authority. A concept he has reasserted throughout his 40-year career.

 

“I was blown away by Wakamatsu’s United Red Army. The sadness of it felt like a paradox, it was liberating. Like this was all behind and we could finally think of a new way to change the world, not being enslaved by the nostalgia of the 60s and 70s. It was very brave to say ‘this is (may be) why it went wrong’. It took a lot of courage, especially when you were part of it like Wakamatsu at the time. I felt the film was an invitation to talk about it and I decided to accept it. We met in Tokyo only few days after filming Oguri. They were like two sides of a same, beautiful, courageous, poetic fight. Warriors. Wise men.

Biography

film director

Antoine Barraud

Antoine Barraud (1972) in 2004 made his first short, Monstre, which participated at numerous international festivals. He then directed other films, part documentary and part experimental, including portraits of filmmakers such as Kenneth Anger, Shuji Terayama and Koji Wakamatsu. Song (2007) and La forêt des songes (2010) were both presented at the Torino Film Festival, where, in 2011, another film of his was screened, Son of a Gun, which he co-directed with Claire Doyon. He has participated as a producer in many projects including the film by Stephen Dwoskin Age Is..., which is participating at this year’s Torino Film Festival. 

FILMOGRAFIA

Monstre (cm, 2004), Déluge (mm, 2005), Song (2007), Monstre, numéro deux (mm, 2007), River of Anger (mm, doc., 2007), Danièle Gould (doc., 2007), Plug (cm, 2009), La forêt des songes (mm, doc., 2010), La montagne de la terreur (cm, doc., 2010), Les maisons de feu (cm, doc., 2010), Son of a Gun (coregia/codirector Claire Doyon, cm, 2011), Les gouffres (2012).

Cast

& Credits

regia, fotografia/director, cinematography

Antoine Barraud

montaggio/film editing

Agnes Contensou

musica/music

Antoine Dumont

interpreti/cast

Koji Wakamatsu

produttori/producers

Philippe Dijon De Monteton

produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales

House On Fire

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