arsène

A young boy lives a troubled and disturbing waking dream in his grandfather’s house. An uneasiness, marked by a certain morbidity, guides his every move. A teenage girl hypnotically hammers away at the controls of a video game. As he wanders, eyes half-closed, the child points a pathetic dart gun at this father figure…

  • Guillaume LETELLIER
    Director
  • Guillaume LETELLIER
    Producer
  • Anouk FILIPINI
    Writer
  • Vadim THIENOT
    Key Cast
    "Arsène"
  • Enora THIENOT
    Key Cast
    "Anouk"
  • Hervé COLOMBEL
    Key Cast
    "Grand father"
  • Mathilde PRIOLET
    Key Cast
    "Mother (voice)"
  • Lionel RIGAL
    Cinematographer
  • Marion GREPIN
    Camera assistant
  • Hélène DEMONGEOT
    Editor
  • Vincent VILLA
    Sound engineer
  • Hugo ZEITOUN
    Perchman
  • Boris BODIANSKY
    Assistant director
  • Solène BOULANGER
    Script
  • Élodie ZEGANADIN
    Make-up
  • Émeric THIENOT
    Catering
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    arsène
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    8 minutes 50 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 8, 2018
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • NYC Indie Film Awards
    New York City
    United States
    Best director
  • Paris Short Film Festival
    Paris
    France
    Official Selection
Director Biography - Guillaume LETELLIER

Initially a researcher in artificial intelligence before studying cinema theory, Guillaume made a documentary in 2012 for the Imagina festival of Monaco and for the French Film Festival in Richmond (USA, Virgnia). He directed more than fifty short artistic, cultural and advertising formats. Arsène is his first - short - narrative fiction.

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Director Statement

For the basic framework of this short film, which seems
to swing between the dreamlike and the absurd, exploring
the muddled psyche of a child, we immediately realise
that the visual and sound staging adopts the standpoint of
the child in order to say so much more.

This short film raises more questions of an existential –
dreams, virtual reality, death and innocence – and formal
nature than the answers it provides. The dreamlike suspension
of time and space, proper both to the dream and
to the immersive stupor of the screens, is supported by
the short-film format.