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EXALTED MARS

Jean-Sébastien Chauvin
France, 2022
18 min

In Exalted Mars, the body and the city are interconnected. Or, better said, outside happens inside. A man’s bare body harmonises with the tension outside as the traffic loses its sound and is guided by the man’s jerky breathing into the liminal space of sleep.

Constructed simultaneously as a fever and a wet dream on a bodily level, Exalted Mars is an artistic endeavor that eroticizes the connection between the body and the space it occupies, and also vice versa – the space that occupies the body and in its smallest crevices. The author uses the naked body of a sleeping man as the centerpoint of his film, whose breath synchronizes with the nocturnal traffic of the city. A sensuous tableau vivant, illuminated by the reflections of streetlights that permeate within the intimate space, the short film invites us to partake in a cinematic experience that is rapt in a liminal state, somewhere between contemplation and dreaming. (Emilian Lungu)

Date and Location

27th of September, 18:30, Cinemateca Eforie

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Jean-Sébastien Chauvin

Jean-Sébastien Chauvin directed his first short, Girls of fire, in 2008. The film was selected at the Cannes Film Festival (Semaine de la Critique). And they climbed the mountain is his second film, shot in 2011. The children, his fifth film, was selected at Clermont Ferrand ISFF in 2014. He is also a film critic (Les Cahiers du Cinéma, Vogue) and teaches cinema at the French School ESEC.

  • Technical sheet
  • WITH: Alain Garcia Vergara
  • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Maxime Berger
  • SOUND: Damien Boitel, Xavier Thieulin
  • EDITING: Patric Chiha
  • PRODUCTION: Flavien Giorda, Yann Gonzalez

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