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WATCH THE FIRE OF BURN INSIDE IT

Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
France, 2022
18 min

To the beat of electronic music, a mysterious figure with a petrol can in her hands wanders across the Corsican plains and, like an ode to the purifying fire, burns everything in her path.

Who would have thought that the world can only be healed if it is destroyed? Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel know it well: to be purified, it must be burned. With a can of gasoline, the protagonist in their film carries out her mission day after day, burning the Corsican plains and then watching the life-saving smoke, the burning cars and the pirouettes of planes trying to stop the fire. The fire remains the sole possible solution, the only valid and definitive protest, both in the two directors’ film and the documentary footage mixed into it, as a reminder of how fiction can always transcend its boundaries and enter reality’s terrain. Just as in the uncertain blue of the sky, the flames begin to merge with the sunset. (Andreea Chiper)

Date and Location

30th of September, 20:00, Cinema Elvire Popesco

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Caroline Poggi

Caroline Poggi was born in 1990 in Ajaccio. She studied at the University of Corsica, and then graduated from the University Paris VIII. Born in Toulouse in 1988, Jonathan Vinel studied Editing at La Fémis. They began directing solo before embarking on a collaboration for Tant qu’il nous reste des fusils à  pompe (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. Currently they’re preparing their second feature film. They live and work between Paris, Corsica and Toulouse.

  • Technical sheet
  • CAST: Caroline Poggi, Bendik Giske, Pan Daijing
  • PRODUCTION: 444 FILMS
  • IMAGE/EDITING: Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
  • VFX: Stanislas Bécot
  • SOUND MIXER: Victor Praud
  • SOUND DESIGN: Olivier Voisin
  • COLOUR GRADING: Julia Mingo
  • MUSIC: Bendik Giske, Pan Daijing, Jonathan Vinel

 

 

 

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