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123 soleil

At sunset, a group of young women play — and the world seems to play with them.

  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Director
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Writer
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 59 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 1920x1080
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Christophe Schaeffer

Christophe Schaeffer is a French multidisciplinary artist — writer, poet, philosopher (PhD), visual artist, and lighting designer. His work spans theatre, contemporary dance, visual arts, music, and cinema, exploring perception, time, and the fragile boundaries between image and presence.
Since 2022, he has developed a body of experimental films extending his research into moving images. His cinematic practice revolves around duration, slowness, and the vibration of reality, often using extreme slow motion, long focal lengths, and mobile phone cinematography.
His films have been presented in international festivals and artistic contexts, and pursue a form of poetic cinema of attention, where images remain inhabited by gesture, silence, and lived experience.

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Director Statement

1, 2, 3 Soleil begins with a simple situation: a group of young women playing at the end of the day, suspended in the warm light of sunset.
What interests me is the moment when play becomes a way of inhabiting the world. The gestures are simple, almost childlike — stopping, running, turning — yet they create a space apart, a shared rhythm where attention, bodies, and environment align.
The game structures the movement, but something else emerges beyond it. The light, the sky, the distant city, the wind — all seem to respond, as if the world itself were participating in the play.
The film does not seek to narrate an event, but to capture a state: a moment of presence where joy is not an expression, but a way of being.
This fragile world exists only for a short time — the duration of a game, the fading of the light — before disappearing.