Country: France
Year: 2009
Duration: 25'
in praise of reason A full immersion into the mental universe of a man who has chosen drugs as his existential dimension. A choice that is pondered, searched for, motivated, conscious to the fact that its roots go back to war, death, the absurd but which sounds like a desperate hymn to life. “Despite myself, in recent months I have studied the human species from close up. Not much needs to be added to the fact that human beings are a very complicated species, even more so than scorpions: in fact, scorpions can survive a nuclear war, humans can’t. They are vulnerable. I have nothing against capitalism. But why shouldn’t we accept the fact that scorpions know how to live their lives and human beings don’t? Why should Karl Marx wish happiness to human beings and not to scorpions? Or to dogs and to birds? Recently, I have reflected on these questions and I isolated myself for five months to study human beings from very close up; I will bring all this into my next film, Les (vraies) histoires de la drogue.”
Biography
film director
Waël Noureddine
Waël Noureddine (Lebanon, 1978) is a writer and poet, as well as a director; he began his career as a journalist. In 2002 he took refuge in France and then returned to Lebanon at the end of the war. In 2008 he went to the United States to raise crocodiles but abandoned the project to continue working in the field of cinema. His films and installations have been presented at many international manifestations, including the Venice Biennale. In 2005 Ça sera beau (From Bayreuth with Love) received a special mention at the Clermont Ferrand International Short Film Festival and was selected for the festival in Locarno.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Chez nous à Bayrouth (cm, doc., 2002), Ça sera beau (From Bayreuth with Love) (cm, doc., 2005), July Trip (mm, doc., 2006), A Film Far Beyond a God (mm, doc., 2007), Éloge de la raison (cm, doc., 2009).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, fotografia, montaggio, suono, interprete/director, screenplay, cinematography, film editing, sound, cast
Waël Noureddine
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Bathysphère Productions
