White Epilepsy

Name: White Epilepsy
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-06-29
Duration: 1 hr 8 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Hélène Rocheteau, Jean-Nicolas Dafflon, Anja Röttgerkamp, Dominique Dupuy

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NR 1 hr 8 minDocumentary

Part of Unrest Trilogy

Where do images come from? This disturbing and essential question is posed by Philippe Grandrieux, and he already imposed it on himself the start, via Sombre (1999) up to the portrait recently devoted to Masao Adachi (FID 2011). From where, then? Maybe from the depths behind our eyes, ungraspable visions, night in suspension, promise of the end of an eclipse, between dream and nightmare. This is the start (and in truth the programme) of White Epilepsy. In a darkness barely broken by light, a mass advances: a nude back, in a long shot entirely centred on the shoulders.

StarringHélène RocheteauJean-Nicolas DafflonAnja Röttgerkamp

DirectorPhilippe Grandrieux

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Original Language:French

Production Companies:Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), CNC, Epileptic, Région Languedoc-Roussillon

Unrest Trilogy

As Grandrieux has written, 'No narrative link unites the three parts of the triptych, what we have is rather three stages of bodily presence, three affective intensities, three events that we are able to access only via what they make us experience inside of us, our own disquiet'. Unrest comprises three movements: White Epilepsy (2012), Meurtrière (2015) and Unrest (2017).