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Chambre (La)
Joëlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia achieve an obviously aesthetic movie and reveal themselves as directors of their own choreographic universe.
A woman in an armchair. The camera dances around her and reveals in her back the diffracted-like image of eight female dancers, pinned like insects to an oblique wall. In a confined space with earthy ground, while words by Marguerite Duras are whispered in a voice over, the nine dancers resist the bad weather aggressing them by physical gestures of evasion and closure.
Joëlle Bouvier and Régis Obadia sign here a film of obvious plastic beauty, revealing themselves as directors of their own choreographic universe. Making full use of cinema resources, they express through images the urgency of their gestural writing that they propose here as a counterpoint to the stretched out literary style of Marguerite Duras. This film has been awarded many prizes including the Toucan d’or at the Rencontres de prograùùes audiovisuels in Rio de Janeiro, the FIPA d’Argent 1989 (short films) in Cannes, and a special mention from the jury at the FIFA (International Festival of Films on Art) in 1990.
