HANNAH - Portrait number 6 of XXY [ɛks/ɛks/wʌɪ]
“I am like a tulip in the desert. I die before opening. And the desert breeze scatters my petals.” Anonymous Afghan woman
Her perpetual quest for fulfillment and the gathering of her feminine and masculine in a harmonious whole, the woman finds herself the hostage of power-hungry masculins. She, who unknowingly draws the fire of jealousy and resentment. She, a weapon of war, assaulted and muzzled. She, who loses a masculine guardian each time a warrior arises. Despite her creative power, SHE is the Feminine who cries.
Hannah is the first name of the mother of the Virgin Mary in the Muslim tradition (Anne in the Christian tradition). Although supposedly sterile, she gave birth to Mary after twenty years of marriage.
Hannah is the 6th portrait of the 30min long non-narrative abstract music video of XXY [ɛks/ɛks/wʌɪ], that investigates the "feminine".
"XXY [ɛks/ɛks/wʌɪ], a transgender film, a multidisciplinary sensory experiment, an equation with several unknowns. An open and poetic work that upsets the senses and encourages reflection." Benjamin Minimum, Médiapart - 07-2019
Written, directed and edited by Clotilde
Produced by Tzig’Art
With the support of The French Ministry of the Women’s Rights, SPEDIDAM, SACEM, The French National Audiovisual Institute, The Simone de Beauvoir Centre
Cinematographer Florent Bourgeais
Compositing and calibration by Stéphane Jarreau / Donc Voilà
Dance by the Shanghai Jin Xing Dance Theatre
Music by Gregory Dargent
Clotilde vocals
Grégory Dargent oud
Jean Louis Marchand bass clarinet
Nicolas Beck tarhu
Etienne Gruel percussions
Vincent Posty double bass
Recorded by Mathieu Pelletier at Downtown Studios
Mixing by Jean-Paul Gonnod
Mixing and mastering cinema by Bruno Gueraçague / Tabaskko
Mastering by Thomas Pégorier / Brut de Prod
Filmed in Iceland
℗ & © Tzig'Art and Clotilde - 2018
HANNAH-PORTRAIT NUMBER 6 OF XXY: 150.444
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Clotilde RullaudDirector
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Clotilde RullaudWriter
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Tzig'ArtProducer
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Florent BourgeaisCinematographer
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Clotilde RullaudEditor
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Stéphane JarreauColorist and compositor
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Bérangère LallemantVisual identity and graphism
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Shanghai Jin Xing Dance TheatreDancers
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Shanghai Jin Xing Dance TheatreDancers
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Dai ShaotingDancers
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Ding YiDancers
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Liu XiaotongDancers
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Pang KunDancers
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Sun ZhuzhenDancers
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Gregory DargentComposer
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Clotilde RullaudMusicians
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Grégory DargentMusicians
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Jean-Louis MarchandMusicians
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Nicolas BeckMusicians
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Etienne GruelMusicians
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Vincent PostyMusicians
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Jean-Paul GonnodSound engineer
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Thomas PégorierSound engineer
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Bruno GueracagueSound engineer
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Mathieu PelletierSound engineer
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Project Title (Original Language):HANNAH - Portrait numéro 6 de XXY [ɛks/ɛks/wʌɪ]
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Project Type:Experimental, Music Video, Short, Other
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Genres:art, non-narrative, conceptual, dance, dance video, music, feminin, womanhood, abstract, war, marthyr women, identity, masculine
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Runtime:6 minutes 34 seconds
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Completion Date:June 1, 2018
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Production Budget:25,000 EUR
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Country of Origin:France
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Country of Filming:Iceland
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Shooting Format:HDCAM
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:No
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Festival of Recorded Movement (F-O-R-M)Vancouver
Canada
September 15, 2018
Official Selection -
San Francisco Dance Film FestivalSan Francisco
United States
October 7, 2018
Official Selection -
Festival Européen du Film Court - Un festival c’est trop court !Nice
France
October 13, 2018
Official Selection -
InterFilm Festival - International Short Film Festival BerlinBerlin
Germany
November 23, 2018
Official Selection -
InShadow festivalLisboa
Portugal
November 27, 2018
Official Selection -
Athens Video Dance Project Festival- Nomination of the Audience AwardAthens
Greece
January 18, 2019
Nomination of the Audience Award -
Akropodis Dance FestivalSyros
Greece
July 9, 2019 -
Zante Dance FestivalZakynthos
Greece
July 27, 2019 -
Open Nights DEFRAG Festival, Booze CooperativaAthens
Greece
November 11, 2019 -
Shorts Attack FestivalBerlin
Germany
January 5, 2020 -
Jumping Frames International Dance Video FestivalHong Kong
Hong Kong
September 6, 2020 -
International Dance Film FestivalBrussels
Belgium
October 3, 2020
Clotilde is a multidisciplinary creator who employs a range of artforms to generate new poetic languages. She combines music, song, dance, and the visual arts to make singular performance pieces, concerts, and films. Her kaleidoscopic visions liberate imaginations, depictions, and emotions. Clotilde orchestrates these interlinked structures by throwing off conventions, giving way to emergences that she calls “hazardous synchronicities.”
Her creative pathway is a metabolic thing which draws on the vibrant substance of life: a pulse; an encounter; a way of exploring the world and of feeling alive inside; of grasping the pluralistic nature of artistic languages—chromatic archipelagos proffered for inspiration. She tirelessly collects connections, encounters, and surprises, inviting artists to step into her pieces and trace out their own journeys. “I enjoy plunging myself into that which is different to me, into that zone of discomfort which forces us to greater awareness.”
From Dada and the surrealists, she cherishes the unexpectedness of revelations, their accidental synchronisms. Clotilde’s performance pieces alternately enchant, move, and destabilize: they speak to the unconscious, that fragile, indeterminate zone that sometimes overturns under certain impulses.
Having entered the conservatoire at the age of five to learn the flute, Clotilde began to explore the performing arts through music, theater, and dance. She very soon set herself the task of augmenting her own music, of staking out her own borders beyond genres, of marking out new territories in which to bring her visions to fruition, taking the road of the subconscious and of dreams to directly “strike at the audience’s emotional structure.” Aged twenty, she staged her first two multidisciplinary shows combining music, storytelling, and dance: Sur la route des Tziganes and Monsieur Jazz.
Clotilde explores the infinitely flexible possibilities of the voice through advanced vocal techniques such as bone vibration. An insatiable wanderer, she has spent time in Ireland, Lebanon, the Balkans, the United States, and Burkina-Faso. Each of her peregrinations provides for fertile exchanges culminating in the poetry of things revealed.
“I aspire to take people out of themselves: to grab someone’s hand and make off. Some moments will of course be pleasanter than others, but in the end, both of us will be more alive.”
An international multidisciplinary creator, artistic director, vocalist, flutist, producer, and cultural connector, Clotilde is above all an explorer: of her own dreams, of synesthetic languages, of bodies, of music, and of writings, which she employs in the pursuance of her essential themes.
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Random synchronicities: n. f. pl. neologism
A non-illustrative dialogue between different artistic disciplines, expressed independently yet simultaneously. The art of the poetry of things revealed.
Clotilde revisits the accidental synchronisms that are so well known in the film world—which Cocteau already transposed to the stage through the intercession of Roland Petit, the choreographer of the mimodrama: Le Jeune Homme et la Mort. She works at cultivating “the planned accident” through being present in the moment as a creative impulse.
In her polyphonic works, each artistic discipline plays its own score. Infused with the same thematic thrust, yet independent in their creative paths, each discipline elevates the other to a vibration that they would have not attained separately, so avoiding the pitfalls of illustration. When these scores meet, there arise accidental synchronisms susceptible to fresh perceptions, laying the foundations of a possible symbolic revolution.
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Clotilde’s travels
2021: XXY, polyphonic poetry for five musicians, five dancers, and one film; an extension of Clotilde’s reflections on the Feminine. In it she invokes a shifting of the gaze with a view to deconstructing the system of gender-related oppressions in favor of a human ideal existing fully in the fluidity of its polarities: the feminine and the masculine. Produced with the support of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, the Ile de France region, the Ile de France Cultural Office, the Val de Marne Department, the Paris Cultural Office, the Royaumont Foundation, the Théâtre de Vanves, Le Comptoir in Fontenay, and the National Choreography Center in Créteil.
2019: Pieces of a Song, duo with the New York pianist Chris McCarthy; a repertoire of original compositions woven from the rage and ecstasy of the texts of the Beat Generation poet, Diane di Prima. Produced with the support of the French American Jazz Exchange.
2018: XXY [ɛks/ɛks/wʌɪ], experimental filmed work that tackles the question of femininities in an open, poetic way, combining dance, music, song, and the visual arts. Shown in over thirty festivals worldwide, XXY [ɛks/ɛks/wʌɪ] has received five awards and nominations. Produced with the support of the Secretariat of Women’s Rights, the SACEM, and the SPEDIDAM.
2016: A Woman’s Journey, first album of the duo Madeleine & Salomon with the pianist Alexandre Saada; a vibrant homage to the American women “protest singers.” The album received sixteen awards, six of which were for the best album (in France and the USA). On stage, the collection of songs is enriched by the projection of dreamlike film sequences. Produced with the support of the FCM.
2011: In Extremis, first album as composer, a quartet without bass with Olivier Hutman on the piano, Dano Haider on the seven-string guitar, and Antoine Paganotti on drums. An eclectic overlaying of textures and materials, evocative of surrealist collages, yet rooted in Clotilde’s influences: jazz, classical, world pop, and improvisation. Ranked among the top five albums of 2011 by The Sunday Times (UK) and 2013 by the NPR Annual Jazz Critics Poll (USA)—debut album category. Produced with the support of the ADAMI and the SPPF.
2007: Live aux 7 Lézards, live album of covers of pop and jazz songs in a duo with the guitarist, Hugo Lippi. Jazz Magazine called the album a “little marvel […] riskily youthful, spontaneous, free...”. Produced with the support of Paris city hall.
2002: Sur la route des Tziganes and Monsieur Jazz, multidisciplinary family shows for seven performers, in which Clotilde sang, narrated, and danced.