White Epilepsy
Philippe Grandrieux – F 2012 – 68 min.
C+E: Philippe Grandrieux – S: Corinne Thévenon – With Hélène Rocheteau, Nicolas Dafflon, Anja Röttgerkamp, Dominique Dupuy – P: Annick Lemonnier
DCP – no dialogue
German Premiere
The figures haunting the film exist in a strange invasive reality. They are subjected to subterranean forces linking them between each other. Their actions respond to an injunction we cannot understand, to which we have no access, but to which we anticipate the imperious Sovereignty. In the heart of the forest an ancient archaic humanity rehearses scenes taken from a ceremony. It is a dream, or a nightmare. The story is woven with the fear, the sexuality and our animalism that mutes edgy nerves. The film follows a layout of affective intensities through which the story develops into nervous intensities. This distinctive narration drives the viewer to test the world of White Epilepsy from the depths of his intimate experiences of fear and of desire, from the affective network that is his own.
Philippe Grandrieux, born in 1954 in France. He studied movies at the INSAS in Brussels and started his career as a moviemaker by shooting fictional films and documentaries. His uncompromised vision of Art leads him to push the boundaries of the cinematographic fields he is working on. As a consequence, he is always producing an inventive and radical cinema. Grandrieux’s films are deriving from horror movies and experimental movies.
Films (selection): Grandeur Nature 1984 – Berlin 1987 – Cafés 1992 – Retour à Sarajevo 1996 – Sombre 1998 – La Vie nouvelle 2002 – Un Lac 2008 – Il se peut que la beauté ait renforcé notre résolution - Masao Adachi 2011 – White Epilepsy 2012