Country: Belgium, France
Year: 2023
Duration: 70'
Éléonore drives west. Her car breaks down in the middle of Brittany, France. She rents a bungalow there in a camping with a view of the lake, in which, it is said, lives a legendary beast. From mobile home to mobile home, she observes the present, summons the past and lets herself be invaded by fiction.
Biography
film director
Éléonore Saintagnan
(Belgium, 1979) graduated from Le Fresnoy national studio, where she directed short and medium-length films that with the border between reality and fiction. In 2011, she made the short film Un film abécédaire, set in the Ballons des Vosges Regional Nature Park, followed by the medium-length film Les Bêtes sauvages in 2015, co-directed with Grégoire Motte. In 2023, she released her debut feature film, Camping du lac, presented in the Filmmakers of the Present section at Locarno. She currently lives and works in Brussels.
FILMOGRAFIA
Un film abécédaire (cm, 2011), Les Bêtes sauvages (mm, 2015), Camping du lac (2023).
Declaration
film director
“In my work, there’s always something strange happening. I like to use real locations and non-professional actors, but I place them on the fringes of reality. I drift away from it. The first time I went to this campground, I found it strange. There was an immobile bison, surrounded by sheep and a statue of a Native American chief. I come from documentary filmmaking, but it’s exactly the kind of cinema I want to create. A cinema that makes you say, ‘There’s something odd, but what?”
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Éléonore Saintagnan. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Michaël Capron. EDITING Julie Naas. MUSIC: Yannick Dupont, Gaëtan Campos. SOUND: Vincent Nouaille, Nicolas Joly. CAST: Éléonore Saintagnan, Anna Turluc’h, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Rosemary Standley, Wayne Standley, Étienne Sibéril. PRODUCTION: Michigan Films.
CONTACT: Ecce Films (Liyan Fan) distribution@eccefilms.fr
