29° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE: PAESAGGIO CON FIGURE
MIRAMEN
by Khristine Gillard, Marco Rebuttini
Country: Belgium
Year: 2011
Duration: 22'
Miramen, Provencal for mirage, indicates perfectly the visual quality of Camargue, a place where land and water meet and ask the humans that inhabit it to become one with these elements. “For a long time I had been dreaming of depicting Carmargue, the way I feel it to be and the way it is inhabited. It is an uncertain, incomplete territory still in the making. […] We wanted to film this landscape like a place in which one can encounter a real space – the Camargue where people work – but also as something that goes beyond it, overcomes it, transcends it, an imagined space, the place that has a bond with the invisibility of nature, with myths. […] The question we asked ourselves was how to depict this encounter between what is inside – the bonds, the bodies, the relational gestures – and what is outside. How to make this landscape ‘touchable’ even if it is elusive, maintaining this sensation of inaccessibility, its invisible dimension, those moments of the imperceptibility of sounds and of the images that are brought and then taken away by the wind? […] Miramen is a moment underway, an intuition of a landscape. Perhaps, a mirage.” (Khristine Gillard)
Biography
film director
Marco Rebuttini
Marco Rebuttini (Belgium) worked in the mountains taking care of young people with problems. He later founded a small company specialized in organizing performances and film shoots in inaccessible places. A photographer, cameraman and great traveler, he has worked on many television reports. He recently made the photographic series Le temps and is now working on a second one entitled Les mains sales. Miramen is the first film he has directed.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Khristine Gillard:
Le matin des eaux (cm, 2006), 50g5+25g6+20vol (cm, 2007), Destra e Sinistra I & II (cm, 2007), Des hommes (doc., 2008).
Khristine Gillard, Marco Rebuttini:
Miramen (doc., 2011).
Khristine Gillard
(Vilvoorde, Belgium, 1972) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Filmmaker, co-founder of LABO Bxl, cinematographic lab for research on celluloid. Her projects can take the form of documentary, multimedia installations, photographs and other chemical experiments. She creates the visuals for the music project Prairie. In 2017, she is leading the artistic research The Forms of Documentary - Political Scope and Aesthetic Experience with the support of Art/Recherche (FRArt) at erg - Ecole de Recherche Graphique in Brussels. Her films and other projects are screened in various international festivals and venues (Visions du Réel, IFFR Rotterdam, TIDF Taiwan, Torino Film Festival, Festival d’Amiens, Etats Généraux du film documentaire Lussas, Punto de Vista, Barbican London, MoMA Documentary Fortnight NY etc).
FILMOGRAFIA
Des Hommes (doc, 2008), Miramen (cm, doc, 2011), Cochihza (mm, doc, 2013), Eau Vive - Conversation with a Cinematographer (doc, 2015), Las y los minúscules (doc, 2021).
Cast
& Credits
regia, fotografia/directors, cinematography
Khristine Gillard, Marco Rebuttini
montaggio/film editing
Julien Contreau, Khristine Gillard
musica/music
Prairie, Khristine Gillard
suono/sound
Khristine Gillard, Emmanuel de Boissieu
produttori/producers
Thierry Zamparutti, Khristine Gillard
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Ambiances... asbl
coproduzione/coproduction
Tout est possible
