29° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
ONDE: MEDIOMETRAGGI E CORTOMETRAGGI
SON OF A GUN
by Antoine Barraud, Claire Doyon
Country: France
Year: 2011
Duration: 13'
New York, the body of a girl lies on the sidewalk in a puddle of blood under the eyes of the people walking by. Meanwhile, next to the port docks, a man was murdered and his body lies on the asphalt. There are many dead people in town because many have decided to enact their murder. “Weegee’s pictures inspired us for the movie: in particular the American photographer from the 1930s and 1940s made us want to use Super8 and New York. His dreadful and shocking pictures of crime scenes deeply impressed at the time and still convey a startling and rather upsetting mood nowadays. The dead corpse of outlaws, gangsters, petty criminals, hobos or victims of accidents are flashed by a brutal light, which enhances the spectacular, fictional character of the scene. The flash becomes a spot light, the posters and the sidewalk in Manhattan become the theatre of the stories you can imagine.”
Biography
film director
Claire Doyon
Claire Doyon (France) studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York and in the Direction Department of La Femis in Paris. After graduating she made Les Lionceaux, which was presented at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in 2003. A few years later she made a second short film, Kataï (2010), which was screened at the Locarno Film Festival, as well as at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and at the Angers European First Film Festival. Son of a Gun, co-directed with Antoine Barraud, was presented during the previous edition of the Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Le vent souffle où il veut (mm, 2000), Les lionceaux (2003), Egma 01 «l’esprit des lieux» (cm, 2007), Egma 02 «l’esprit de la forêt» (cm, 2008), Sola, perduta, abbandonata (cm, 2008), Kataï (cm, 2010), Son of a Gun (coregia/codirector Antoine Barraud, cm, 2011), Pénélope (mm, 2012).
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, sceneggiatura/directors, screenplay
Claire Doyon, Antoine Barraud
fotografia/cinematography
Daniel Weintraub, Claire Doyon, Antoine Barraud
montaggio/film editing
Fred Piet
costumi/costume design
JLZ
musica/music
Children of the Gun
suono/sound
Carole Verner
interpreti/cast
Léo Fitzpatrick, Joana Preiss, Marianna Rothen, Andrea Monti, Brady Corbet
produttore/producer
Justin Taurand
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
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