28° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ONDE - LUNGOMETRAGGI
MOUSSEM LES MORTS
by Vincent Le Port, Jean-Baptiste Alazard
Country: France
Year: 2010
Duration: 82'
moussem the dead Tangiers, summertime. M is a French construction foreman who has moved to Morocco. He spends his days observing the workers’ suffering and their terrible living conditions. He is consumed by this daily battle and decides to see if he can rediscover the true meaning of life by killing someone. Almost by chance he meets Karmin and Marie, with whom he goes off on an improvised adventure which forces him to take stock of the idea of death, the pleasure of freedom and lost illusions. “The idea behind this project (to leave France and go see other places in order to recreate a private, virgin territory together) is closely tied to the circumstances that put the main characters into the situation they find themselves in at the beginning of the story. The film was shot in three weeks and, in its conception, brought together M, Karmin and Marie, who observe a society they don’t belong to, which they travel through like tourists and are disappointed to find exactly what they were trying to escape from.”
Biography
film director
Vincent Le Port
Vincent Le Port (Brittany, France, 1986) graduated as an audiovisual technician before enrolling at La fémis, École nationale supérieure des métiers de l’image et du son. He has made several amateur projects, including experimental shots and medium-length films inspired by the works of Mekas, Brakhage and Tcherkassky. He then made Moussem les morts, the first feature film he has made with Jean Baptiste Alazard.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Grand Guignol (cm, 2007), Minotaure Mein Führer (mm, doc., 2008), Finis Terrae (cm, 2009), Danse des habitants invisibles de La Casualidad (mm, doc., 2010), Moussem les morts (coregia/codirector Jean Baptiste Alazard, 2010).
Jean-Baptiste Alazard
Jean-Baptiste Alazard (Aveyron, France, 1985) graduated as audio-visual technicians before attending La fémis, École nationale supérieure des métiers de l’image et du son. He made various amateur projects on his own, including shorts and experimental medium-length films based on the films of Mekas, Brakhage and Tcherkassky, before collaborating with Vincent Le Port on Moussem les morts, their first feature film and the graduating film completing their studies at La fémis.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Vincent Le Port:
Grand Guignol (cm, 2007), Minotaure mein Führer (mm, doc., 2008), Finis terrae (cm, 2009), Danse des habitants invisibles de La Casualidad (mm, doc., 2010).
Jean-Baptiste Alazard:
Le cinquième quartier (mm, doc., 2008).
Vincent Le Port, Jean Baptiste Alazard:
Moussem les morts (2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia/directors
Vincent Le Port, Jean-Baptiste Alazard
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Olivier Demangel, Jean-Baptiste Alazard, Vincent Le Port
fotografia/cinematography
Antoine d’Artemare, Laurent Navarri, Azma Hafili
montaggio/film editing
Jean-Baptiste Alazard, Vincent Le Port, Xavier Sirven, Vincent Tricon
scenografia/production design
Jonathan Lepreux
costumi/costume design
Elsa Capus
musica/music
Einstürzende Neubauten
suono/sound
Marc-O. Brullé, Charlotte Butrak
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Benjamin Abitan (M), Martin Chédaille (Karmin El Mazout), Camille Pélicier (Marie), Ghassan El Hakim (Mejdoub), Mohamed Al Baki (il vecchio/Old Man), Oliver Laxe (il filosofo/Philosopher), Omar Mahfoudi (l’amico di Karmin/Karmin’s Friend), Aziz Btioui (il fratello dell’operaio morto/Dead Worker’s Brother), Barek (il garagista/Garage Owner)
produttore/producer
Pierre-Emmanuel Urcun
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
La fémis
