Rayon vert - projection et rencontre - Une fille de Ouessant

Éléonore Saintagnan

February 12, 2020

outside the walls

Date

  • February 12, 2020

The island of Ouessant is off the very tip of Brittany, making it the last bit of land before America.

About

All its men used to work at sea and the island was therefore almost exclusively populated by women. The film's director, as she immerses herself in the life of the island, plunges into the footage, and, somewhere between dream and reality, she identifies with Barba, a girl from Ouessant whose father disappeared at sea without a trace. How, then, can she grieve? The film adopts the form of an ethnographic tale, halfway between an anthropological documentary, a holiday video and a work of fiction.

Practical informations

Cinéma Arvor, 29 rue d'Antrain, Rennes
as part of festival Travelling 2020


Une fille de Ouessant d'Éléonore Saintagnan, 28 min, 2018
followed by Ben Russell Color-Blind, 30 min, 2019 
meeting with Éléonore Saintagnan, director of  "Une fille de Ouessant" et Colette Quesson, producer of Color-Blind

Connections with the event

  • Éléonore Saintagnan

    December 14, 2019
    February 23, 2020

    Titled L'Œuf pondu deux fois (The Egg Layed Twice), Éléonore Saintagnan's exhibition at La Criée centre for contemporary art brings together a selection of films presented in tree houses put …