A passion

Film DVcam, color, 4/3, 35 mins
Trailer 1′
2016

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In the marital bedroom, a couple is getting ready to go out to a dance club. The wife wants to cheat on her husband. This film tells the story of a family who grapples with the desire of a woman, and of a mother who wants to escape, to seduce and to have a lover.

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Dans la chambre conjugale, un couple s’apprête pour sortir en boite de nuit. La femme veut tromper son mari. Ce film est l’histoire d’une famille aux prises avec le désir d’une femme, d’une mère, celui qu’elle a de s’échapper, de séduire, d’avoir un amant.

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Country : France
Year : 2016
Lenght : 35’16
Format : DV, color.
Screening ratio : 16/9
Image and Sound : Laure Cottin Stefanelli
Editing : Johanne Schatz
Editing and Sound mix : Simon Apostolou
Color Grading : Yannig Willmann
Film supported by “Le Centre National des Arts Plastiques, soutien pour une recherche artistique” (CNAP), Paris, FR ; HISK – Hoger Instituut voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, BE.

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Festival

2016: 33.Kasseler Dok festival, selection “Das Leben ist keine Seifenoper / Cinenovela”, nominated for “The Golden Key Prize”, Kassel, DE.

Screenings

2018 : Bozar, “The Iceberg or what does Chris Marker make us do ?”, invitation by Chloé Malcotti & Xavier Garcia Bardón, Brussels, BE.
2016 : St. Luca – School of Arts, DocNomads Program, Laure Cottin Stefanelli shorts, Brussels, BE.
2016: Vierte Welt, Female Trouble, “Blind date” with Ruth Novaczek, Berlin, DE.
2016: Antwerp Art Weekend & De Studio Kunstcentrum, Art Weekend screening, Antwerp, BE.

Shows

2017: Centrale.Lab, “Touch me not/do not cling to me/do not hold onto me/do not approach me”, Brussels, BE.
2018 : Galeria A Gentil Carioca, “Videoarte agora Videoarte“, curators Anna Bella Geiger & Fernando Cocchiarale, Rio de Janeiro, BR.
2016: ADAM Museum, Art Contest, Brussels, BE.
2016: HISK, “It takes two to make an accident”, curator Selen Ansen, Ghent, BE.