Elisabeth Perceval
2021Nous disons révolution
Nicolas Klotz, Elisabeth Perceval
Men and women are dancing feverishly for a long time. The dance of bodies turns into a filmic trance, fleeing turns into running away, with braided motifs that get revived with every race. The men who don’t dance talk, recite, tell their own stories for and with the filmmakers. And be it through dancing or talking, it is by sharing work space and time, by making a film together, as a community, and by lovingly giving in to sharing, that the film operates politically. It even makes a processional samba in the streets of Sao Paulo look like a show of inalienable collective power. Carried away by this power, the film itself then seems to run away, to overrun its own limits. Somewhere between fable and document, improvisation and composition, anger and joy, all frontiers are burning. (Cyril Neyrat - FID 2021)
Let’s Say Revolution
L'héroïque lande - La frontière brûle
Nicolas Klotz, Elisabeth Perceval
A growing city, where nearly 7,800 people lived, will be destroyed by 50% in February 2016. How will the 4,000 migrants expelled from the South zone reborn from their ashes in the northern zone. Before the state decided to annihilate the entire territory in October 2016 and to disperse its 11,000 inhabitants, to the four corners of France.
The Wild Frontier
Fugitif, où cours-tu ?
Nicolas Klotz, Elisabeth Perceval
Life for refugees and migrants stuck at Calais: Filmed amidst the camps, the beaches, the sea and the sky, impressions of the lived experiences of these people wavering between despair and hope.
Fugitive, Where Are You Running to?
Saxifrages, quatre nuits blanches
Nicolas Klotz, Elisabeth Perceval
« In the shadows of Low Life, a secret ceremony dedicated to thirteen guardians of humanity’s common treasures, love and resistance, youth and poetry, equality and difference, insurrection and revolution. Saxifrages … These rootless plants’ windblown destiny is a soft perseverance doubled by an imperceptible intransigence, which, in time, imposes on the hardness of stones a patience that can break them. » – Saad Chakali
Saxifrages, Four White Nights
Low Life
Nicolas Klotz, Elisabeth Perceval
Camille Rutherford, Arash Naiman
A group of young people are organizing. One night, they face the police who came to evacuate an African squat. Carmen meets Hussain, a young afghan poet. Crazy in love, they don’t leave each other. But a curse hangs over the city, papers are carrying death, bodies are falling. Panicked at the idea that he could get arrested, Carmen forbids him to go out, and locks herself with him. Gradually, Hussain get the feeling that she is watching him…
Low Life
Pour se frayer un chemin dans la jungle, il est bon de frappér avec um baton pour écarter lês dangers invisibles
Nicolas Klotz, Elisabeth Perceval
Vincent Macaigne, Luc Chessel
This short film is part of the clandestine dialogues of the Nicolas Klotz and Élisabeth Perceval’s 2015 feature, “Ceremony”.
Pour se frayer un chemin dans la jungle, il est bon de frapper avec un bâton pour écarter les dangers invisibles