Eros

After a wild party on a campus, a young man unleash his sexual frustration and his misogyny on a advertising poster in a bus stop. In his craziness, a violent pulsation that seemed to be dorment for a long time starts to awaken… But these are just words, isn’t it?

  • Robin Anctil
    Director
  • Robin Anctil
    Writer
  • Robin Anctil
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Éros
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 18 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 8, 2016
  • Country of Origin:
    Canada
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    French
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Courts d'un soir
    Montreal
    Canada
    April 6, 2017
  • Festival Vues du Monde 2017
    Montréal
    Canada
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    Country: Canada
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Robin Anctil

After having completed an interdisciplinary baccalaureate in art concentration cinéma at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Robin goes to do script studies at the School of Cinema and Television of Quebec in 2007. He begins his career at the age of 23 years old in the production of hip-hop video clips. In 2009, at 25 years old, he begins the production of his documentary « Rouge et Blanc », movie on the relation of the Septilians and the Innus of Uashat and Maliotenam. Originating of Sept-Îles, he cherished this project that took 3 years to make. In 2015, he films a teaser for his project « Uahau », a show about a disappeared native American community, inspired by Uashat. A year later, he films his short film « Éros », a movie about feminized. Since 2012, he works as a digital image technician in cinema and publicity in Montreal and he learns from the best in the buisness.

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Director Statement

Eros was written like an introduction of a filmic collection of thought about the image of women, which I didn’t finish. This short film became an ascertainment of what can transform a sexual drive into a violent drive, in a world where rape is tolerated or excused by the way victim of dressed or by their behavior. I wanted to confront this drive to an inanimate element, an image of women that we see everyday, which is innocuous. It’s the symbolic behind the duel of a man and an advertising.
It’s during the search of a filming location that I decided to limit the script for sexual violence on University Campsus. I tried to keep it universal with an actual content.
I see Eros like a fable who warn a young man of my generation, or myself, about the danger of objectification of women made by advertising industry, fashion, clip and pornography. It warn about the consequences of this objectification on our reality, our relationship with women we meet at school, at gym, at restaurent or in a « Binge-drinking-party ».