Ote-toi de mon soleil
by Messaline Raverdy
Synopsis
Between order and chaos, the debacle of a modern-day Don Quixote, his dreams, his memories. His journey through the century. Through him, the portrait of a place, of an overflow of debris. before the collapse of the world, how to live? The film, a kaleidoscope between hot and cold, between overflow and bursts of laughter, also recounts the characters’ meeting with the filmmaker. The promise of a second life and the affirmation of an uncompromising freedom.
“Joseph cannot live at his own place anymore. For many years, he has travelled around the city with his trolley to gather tons of miscellaneous papers and objects of all kinds, this filling his flat with labyrinthine chaos. He is said to have “the Diogenes syndrome”. He is gifted with vertiginous erudition and witty humour. I help him unclog his home. One friendship is forming.” Messaline Raverdy
credits
Director: Messaline Raverdy
Image: Messaline Raverdy, Thomas Schira, Sylvain Dufayard
Sound: Lancelot Hervé Mignucci, Laszlo Umbreit
Editing: Effi Weiss, Pauline Piris-Nuri, Julien Contreau, Ivanne de Canart
Sound editing: Lancelot Hervé Mignucci
Sound mixing: Emmanuel de Boissieu
Corlor grading: Pierre Louis Cassou
Production: Matière Première (Julien Contreau)
Co-production: Survivance, GSARA, Luna Blue Film, Shelter Prod, CBA
With the support of the Cinema and Audiovisual Center of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
A film developed in the framework of SIC.
More Information
Year: 2023
Duration: 48′
Language: Vo French
Subtitles: English, French
Projections – Screenings
Transmutation Cine Contemporaneo, Mexico, 09/2024
Cinéma Nova + Q&A with the director, Brussels, BE, 09/2024
Cinéma Nova + Q&A with the producer Julien Contreau and editor Effi Weiss, Brussels, BE, 09/2024
Cinéma Nova + Q&A with the director and Alain Loute philosopher (Professor of Clinical Ethics at UCL), Brussels, BE, 10/2024
Cinéma Nova + Q&A with Les Danaïdes, a multidisciplinary group working with and around Diogenes syndrome, 10/2024
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany, 04/2024
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, 04/2024
Festival International Jean Rouch – Comité du film ethnographique, Paris, France, 05/2024
Festival PUNTO DE VISTA, ES, 03/2024
Festival En Ville!, BE, 01/2023
Première mondial Festival dei Popoli, 11/2023
Prix – Awards
Jean Vigo Award at Punto de Vista, ES, 03/2024
Jury Award at Festival de cinéma En ville!, Brussels, BE, 01/2024
Best Medium-length film Film Award, Festival dei Popoli, Florence, IT, 11/2023