IT’S RAINING CATS AND DOGS
Claire Doyon
After a feature film devoted to her non- verbal autistic daughter (Pénélope my love, FID 2021), Claire Doyon turns to an Asperger autistic female friend for answers to some of her questions. The friend is sitting, facing the camera, in a large garden where the birds sing. Very quickly, the words spoken on both sides of the camera go well beyond the scope of the interview. For as much as welcoming speech, or even more so, what matters is to welcome a presence. Laying out the interview’s digital matter with silent Super 8 flower shots, Claire Doyon does not only succeed in offering one of the most tender, playful portraits. As seldom seen before, her short, sharp film manages to touch on the enigma of autism as a way of being in the world, and on its very own poetry. (Cyril Neyrat)
Technical sheet
Original version : french
Subtitles : english
Script : Claire Doyon
Photography : Pascale Granel, Claire Doyon
Editing : Raphaël Lefèvre
Sound : Olivier Schwob, Clément Chassaing
Production : Carole Chassaing (Tamara Films).
Selective Filmography : Pénélope mon amour, 2021
Chrishna/Ombwiri
2019
Arsenic, 2017
Les Allées Sombres, 2015
Pénélope, 2012
Son of a Gun, 2010
Kataï, 2009
Les Esprits, 2006
Sola Perduta Abandonnata, 2008
Les Lionceaux, 2002.
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