Acéphale

Patrick Deval

Experimental film | France | 35 mm | 1.33 | b&w | mono | 1968 | 56' 12"
300 €

Original language: Français Screening Copy: digital

“A young humanity, barely born, still in the period of an unreasonable desire, tells herself. She denies her heredity, she refuses to identify a prefabricated future. This enlargement as a prison, gives voice to animals and the elemental forces and prehistoric gestures.” Patrick Deval (Title borrowed from Georges Bataille)

Credits

Director: Patrick Deval Editor: Jackie Raynal Producer: Sylvina Boissonnas

Cast

Players: Jacques Baratier, Michael Chapman, Patrick Deval, Christian Ledoux, Eva Ridoux, Jackie Raynal, Laurent Condomidas

Collectif Jeune Cinéma

The Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Young Cinema Collective) is a filmmakers’ cooperative founded in Paris on June 12th 1971.

The vocation of the CJC is to distribute different and experimental films of all lengths, gathered in a catalogue that is continuously enriched by new works. This catalogue covers a very wide spectrum of aesthetics and cinematographic practices. For example, it is the only one to include experimental films made by children and young flimmakers (under 18 yo).

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