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This film is presented in collaboration with Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg.
Our Legacy
Notre héritage
Berlinale Shorts
2016
Lucas invites his girlfriend Anäis to visit him at home. His parents aren’t around. The garden is all theirs. They can make love there. A photograph of a man with a tiger in his arms hangs on the wall. “Is that your father?” asks Anäis. “Yes, that’s my father. He’s the chairman of a tiger protection group in Thailand.”
The father is Pierre Woodman, the famous pornographic film director. Lucas enters into an imaginary dialogue with his father, whom he tries to understand and even love. Then Lucas confers a knighthood on Anäis, and fiction soars above reality.
In between computer games and pornographic archive material, a fictional story emerges. It searches for love’s value and power, closely surrounded by the extremely precise framing in which the protagonists seek to orient themselves, and by footage shot by Pierre Woodman, freely available in the digital world.
Bio Caroline Poggi
Caroline Poggi studied at the University of Corsica and Paris IV. TheyJonathan Vinel studied editing at La Fémis. Their collaborated on As Long As Shotguns Remain (2014), which won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlinale. Their first feature film, Jessica Forever (2018), premiered at TIFF and subsequently played at the Berlinale. Their hybrid films often combine different media, such as internet footage, pornography and animation.
Bio Jonathan Vinel
Jonathan Vinel studied editing at La Fémis. Caroline Poggi studied at the University of Corsica and the University of Paris IV. They collaborated on As Long As Shotguns Remain (2014), which won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the Berlinale. Their first feature film, Jessica Forever (2018), premiered at TIFF and subsequently played at the Berlinale.
Credits
Script
Cast
Lucas Doméjean, Sarah-Megan Allouch
Camera
Mathieu Gaudet
Editor
Producer
Lou Chicoteau