Matter

A young visual-artist woman is confined in his art-studio. In the midst of a creative crisis, she restarts continuously the same canvas. After a weird dream, she finds her creativity back and makes a fantastic discovery : a unknow raw matter. The artist then becomes a scientist, and his experiences take her on a fantastic journey to the heart of a unexpected, inexplicable inner image.

Inspired by a quote of Jean Cocteau "The artist must accept to feel one with his artwork, to bring his imagination, his art, to life.”

  • CALLEWAERT Eloïse
    Director
  • CALLEWAERT Eloïse
    Writer
  • Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
    Producer
  • CROUS de Paris
    Producer
  • TAHON Cyril (executif prod)
    Producer
  • NEGRE Mathilde
    Key Cast
  • LEBRUN Sylvain
    Key Cast
  • DJAMAI Hichem
    Key Cast
  • VANDRIES Vincent
    Key Cast
  • GARSMEUR Diane
    Key Cast
  • MARCHAND Alexandre
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Matière
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short
  • Genres:
    Experimental, Fiction, Artvideo
  • Runtime:
    16 minutes 34 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 20, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    2,500 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, RED
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes
Director Biography - CALLEWAERT Eloïse

Originally from Roubaix, North of France, Eloïse pursue higher education at the University of Lille3 in 2008. She chooses fine-arts studies for the wide open vision of the world that allowing you to discover a lot of variety of topics. Eloïse then went on to graduate from Paris1 Pantheon-Sorbonne University for a degree in 2012 and a master degree in 2015. Passionate about silver photography, she harness the potential of cinema in their body, in its materiality: the sensitive roll-film.
She creates a Super8 jacket and transform 35mm movie trailer into a wall labyrinth.
With his favorite filmmaker, Stan Brakhage, she understand that movie pictures are not only fictions, stories made by Man, but also the pictures of our mind, our personal inner archives of images, like perceptions of unconscious mind. That is where the hypnotic power of cinema lies.
Now, Eloïse continue to explore his ideas with new raw material like clay, sandstone and macro-photography and would like to work with scientist like astrophysicist or microbiologist.

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Director Statement

Paint with light, to give a shape to your emotions.