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Silencio

Portugal, France

2007

21 Min
Black and White
1.85:1
French
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DIR François-Jacques Ossang

PROD François-Jacques Ossang, Serge Catoire

SCR François-Jacques Ossang

DP Denis Gaubert

CAST Elvire, Antonio Camara

ED François-Jacques Ossang, Jean-Christophe Sanchez

MUSIC Throbbing Gristle

SOUND François-Jacques Ossang, Jean-Christophe Sanchez, Julien Cloquet

Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), São Paulo (Retrospective), Rotterdam (Signals), BAFICI (Trayectorias)

Synopsis

Trees, the sea, megaliths, an iron bridge, a woman passerby ’ filmed in the early morning and late hours of the day. Silencio examines the elementary figures of the cinema and the world. A return to primitive cinema and the basic elements ’ water, wind, earth, sun… With an industrial music score by Throbbing Gristle. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs

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François-Jacques Ossang

Born in 1956, F.J. Ossang is a writer and filmmaker. He has written and directed four shorts and three features, including L’affaire des divisions morituri (1984), Le trésor des îles chiennes (1991) and Docteur Chance (1998). He is now preparing a fourth feature, La succession Starkov. He is also a singer with the MKB Fraction Provisoire group, which has produced nine albums since 1981, as well as the soundtracks of his previous films. He has published a dozen books, including Génération néant (1993), Les 59 jours (1999), W.S. Burroughs (2007). –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs 

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