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part of
double bill #29
Loveboard
Int’l Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
2023
Kassel Dokfest
2024
Bucharest Int’l Experimental Film Festival
2024
A broken phone and the digital memory of a broken queer relationship. Through the careful manipulation of discarnate metal components and the filmmaker’s attentive look at an intimate archive, a fading first love surfaces. Loveboard is a playful reflection on what remains.
Bio Felipe Casanova
Born in 1995 in Zurich, Switzerland, Felipe Casanova spent most of his childhood in Rio de Janeiro. In 2021, he graduated with a Master's degree in film directing from the IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion) in Belgium. Nowadays, based between Brussels and Geneva, he continues to experiment with moving images, working as a director and editor. His films encourage research and experimentation.
Nothing is extraordinary – i.e. out of ordinary – in Felipe Casanova’s Loveboard, not the love story and even less so its images and sounds, all taken from a personal iPhone archive, and this is precisely what makes it extraordinary as cinema: using bits of apparent nothingness to create broken wholeness. The relationship failed, and, in a way, the images did too, as the film sets up a narrative in which the phone broke down and is getting repaired, with its data storage comprising of an involuntary, second-nature memory of this tender relationship, being recovered but as glitchy and faulty.
Credits
Script
Camera
Editor
Felipe Casanova, Nilenzo Clémentin
Sound editor
Valentin Mazingarbe
Film school
Institut des Arts de Diffusion - IAD
Producer
Distributor
Kino Rebelde