By Perrine Lievois and Hadrien don Fayel, co-directors of Echoes
(August 2008)
Paris.
Alise (Tiphaine Siovel) is awakened by a telephone call. A few hours later, while she was supposed to be covering a sport event on the Atlantic coast, she finds herself lost in a maritime nature reserve. The audience takes this journey with her. Though she is alone, facing the elements, she spontaneously reinvents the various stages of a rite that will take her to a new state of consciousness.
As filmmakers, our intention was to let ourselves, and our character, be guided by impulses and express those impulses in an Impressionistic way.
The possibility of using digital cameras to shoot Echoes allowed us to have a great freedom. We like to compare digital work to the invention of tubes for oil painting. Before Impressionism, to paint was a privilege, an artistic way of expression accessible only to a few. It required substantial means of production: a studio, living models, technicians for the lights. The invention of tubes for oil painting and the thirst for freedom allowed Impressionist painters to install themselves in a field and to paint what they had in front of their eyes. Their means were changing, and the results as well.
We shot Echoes in the heart of nature with a four-person crew and one digital camera. We explored new possibilities with the digital technology and the flexibility it gave us.
We all have been influenced and inspired by filmmakers like Terence Mallick (New World), for his Impressionist feeling, and David Lynch (Inland Empire), for the freedom of the form. -MPM Photos courtesy of Magic Lamp Releasing. Friday, August 29, 2008 - 8:51 p.m. at the Chatauqua Community House:
Echoes, an independent film from France, will screen as an official selection of the Moondance Film Festival (Boulder, Colorado, USA; August 28-September 1). The filmmakers will be on hand after the screening for a Q&A. For information and to purchase tickets, click HERE.
Echoes is one of very few feature films named a winner in the Moondance Film Festival's award competition. Describing it, Director Elizabeth English says, "Echoes is a very unique, artistic film." It is the story of a woman's journey as she awakens to Nature, as she leaves Paris and finds herself lost in a maritime nature reserve facing the elements alone. Instinctively, a dialogue begins. |
