#Emoleaks
The hashtag #EMOLEAKS leads us into the turbulent emotional states of teenage existence – into pent-up feelings that push for release while the teens are forming cliques, living through first love, through boredom and adolescent revolts, with pop music serving as outlet and connecting agent. While the experimental narrative of BLOOD BELOW THE SKIN is set in an american high school, the documentary LUPINO finds its main characters in the Corsican middle of nowhere. And yet both films succeed to capture the fragility, presence and brute energy of their young protagonists in very similar ways.
Blood Below the Skin
BLOOD BELOW THE SKIN chronicles a week in the lives of three teenage girls, from different social circles, who form a bond in the week leading up to the school dance. Countdown to prom night is actually countdown to irreversible change for each girl. Two of the girls are falling in love with each other against all expectations and the third girl is forced to mother her own mother in the wake of her father’s disappearance. Each girl seeks comfort within the walls of her bedroom where the music blasting from the turntable provides a magical synchronicity between them all. In BLOOD BELOW THE SKIN Jennifer Reeder continues her experimental narration established in earlier works, in which her reappearing characters and stylistic devices, her flashy mise-en-scène and her inclination for the theatrical and the magical are always connected to a strong political stance.
- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
- 00:33:00
- Director: Jennifer Reeder
- Production: Nelson Mcdonald
- Photography: Christopher Rejano
- Editing: Mike Olenick
- Music: Jenne Lennon
- Sound: Paul Dickinson
- Languages: en
- Year: 2015
- Website
Lupino
Anthony, Orsu and Pierre-Marie belong to Lupino, a suburban neighbourhood of the island of Corsica. They grew up here, in these public housings trapped between the motorway and the hills, far from the seaside, far from the city center, far from anything. When summer comes, they go down the streets. They spend together long restless days on public benches and waste grounds, aching for some shadow, for some company, for an escape. LUPINO is not only a portrait of a place, a milieu, and a group of young people, it also conveys a specific sense of time and a phase of life. This is achieved by combining precise, concentrated camera work with a casual, patient attentiveness, and especially by the decision to take the time to film the uneventful, as a means to tell everything.
- Frankreich, Italien
- 00:49:00
- Director: Francois Farellacci, Laura Lamanda
- Production: François Farellacci, Jean-Etienne Brat
- Photography: François Farellacci
- Editing: François Farellacci, Laura Lamanda
- Music: No original score
- Sound: Ugo Casabianca, Vincent Piponnier, Rémi Gauthier
- Languages: fr
- Subtitles: en
- Year: 2014
- Website
- A38-Production Grant
- German Premiere
