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La Chamelle Blanche

Xavier Christiaens

Experimental film | Belgique | Betacam SP | 4:3 | color | mono | 2006 | 52'  00"
150 €

Original language: Français Screening Copy: Betacam SP
The white she-camel is not so different from Solaris or La Jetée (…). From these barren, irriated, sick areas spring forth, in the same way as in Films by Chris Marker or Andreï Tarkovski, fragments of happiness (…). Bertrand Bacqué – Festival of Nyon This beautiful and mysterious film is by one of Belgium's most talented and peculiar directors. It is a poetic journey into the border areas of the disbanded Soviet Union where imperial power is still intact, if only as an accompaniment to the dream-like soundtrack that is a backdrop to the film's mix of fiction and strange, documentational moments. Christiaens has described his film in terms of Odysseus returning home after his exile and finding a completely new world where nothing is as it was before he left. Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival

Credits

Director: Xavier Christiaens

Collectif Jeune Cinéma

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