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Her Voice

“Her Voice” offers an enigmatic stream of consciousness that resists conventional narrative expectations. In a certain way, the film echoes the #MeToo era, in which we live now. Somewhere between the desperate Boop-Oop-a-Doop’s of a vintage Betty Boop and the film experiments of Maya Deren. “Her Voice” reflects a woman's subjectivity and her sometimes problematic relation to the external world.

  • Silvia Defrance
    Director
    Candy Daring
  • Silvia Defrance
    Writer
    Candy Darling, Letter from a Soldier
  • Eurydice Gysel _ CZAR
    Producer
    Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series The White Queen.http://czar.be/film-tv/her-voice/
  • Lisbeth Gruwez
    Key Cast
    Voetvolk is a contemporary dance and performance group, founded in Belgium in 2007 by dancer/choreographer Lisbeth Gruwez and composer/musician Maarten Van Cauwenberghe. Their work is an ongoing conversation between corporal and auditive movement: Gruwez and Van Cauwenberghe direct each other in order to achieve a symbiosis between the aural and the visual/physical. So far, Voetvolk has produced 8 shows: *) Forever Overhead (2007) *) Birth of Prey (2008) *) HeroNeroZero (2010) *) L'origine (2011) *) It's going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend (2012) *) AH/HA (2014) *) Lisbeth Gruwez dances Bob Dylan (2015) *) We're pretty fuckin' far from okay (2016)
  • Silvia Defrance
    Editing
    Award for editing the film: Candy Darling
  • Kaat Camerlynck
    post-production
    Movies: Any Way the Wind Blows, I Know I'll See Your Face Again, BXL Midnight
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Her Voice
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Genres:
    Female Identity, Crossover, Confessional, Essaye, #MeTOO
  • Runtime:
    10 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    November 20, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    15,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Belgium
  • Country of Filming:
    Belgium
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital HDV
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Be Film Festival, Bozar
    Brussels
    Belgium
    December 27, 2016
  • KASKcinema, Kort Applaus
    Ghent
    Belgium
    March 2, 2017
  • Experiments In Cinema
    Albuquerque, NM
    United States
    April 18, 2017
    International Premiere
  • Small Axe Tolpuddle Radical Film Festival
    Tolpuddle, Dorset
    United Kingdom
    July 7, 2017
    Finalist
  • Avvantura International Film Festival
    Island of Vis
    Croatia
    August 27, 2017
  • Shorts on Tap
    London
    United Kingdom
    March 20, 2018
  • Social Machinery Film Festival
    Pistoa
    Italy
    July 29, 2018
    National
  • Alumni Expo Confrontations at Bogardenkapel
    Bruges
    Belgium
    February 2, 2018
    not applicable
  • EnCore: Dance on Film 2018
    Decatur, Georgia
    United States
    May 25, 2018
  • Fincortex Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Experimentalescol

    Colombia
    December 27, 2017
  • Cefalù Film Festival
    Cefalù
    Italy
    May 5, 2018
  • De Andere Film
    Bruges
    Belgium
    April 26, 2018
  • Spiritual Film Festival Contracorriente 2018
    Bogotà
    Colombia
    July 23, 2018
  • San Mauro Film Festival
    Turin
    Italy
    July 15, 2018
    Semi-Finalist
  • Festival Visualizame Audiovisual & Mujer
    Madrid
    Spain
    September 1, 2017
    Finalist
  • Spiritual Film Festival Contracorriente 2018
    Bogotà
    Colombia
    July 23, 2018
    In competition category: 'Reflections'
  • Oregon Cinema Arts Film Festival
    Portland, Oregon
    United States
    August 17, 2018
    North American Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Festival Cinéma & Poésie: “Des Courts en Hiver” 2019
    Porto-Vecchio
    France
    January 25, 2019
    Corsica
  • Porto Femme Festival - Experimental Award!!!
    Porto
    Portugal
    June 21, 2019
    Experimental Award
  • Wunderground
    Kemzeke
    Belgium
    November 11, 2018
Distribution Information
  • TIFF.TV, Tirana Film Festival
    Country: Albania
    Rights: Free TV
Director Biography - Silvia Defrance

Silvia Defrance has worked as a director, animator and producer of independent short films, many of which have received the support of the Belgian Audiovisual Fund (VAF).In addition to making short films, Defrance taught the art of film making and animation at higher institutions of art in Belgium. She worked on research projects and graduated with a PhD in audiovisual arts at Kask/School of Arts in Ghent, Belgium.
Her most famous film is ‘Candy Darling’. This film got recognition at international film festivals within the category of ‘short independent films’ and received several awards including: 'Best Short Film' at the 'The San Francisco Short Film Festival’ (2009). This film was purchased by the Belgium TV channel Canvas.

EXPERIMENTAL AWARD for the film 'HER VOICE' in June 2019

AWARDS 'CANDY DARLING' 2008 – 2009

Category: Best Short Film, The San Francisco Short Film Festival, United States, June, 2009.

Category: Best Short Film, The Avanca 09 Film Festival, Avanca, Portugal, July, 2009.

Category: Best Experimental Film, The European Independent Film Festival (ÉCU), Paris, France, March, 2009.

Category: Direction, The Chicago Short Film Festival, USA, November, 2009.

Category: Editing, The New York Short Film Festival, USA, February, 2009.

Category: Art Direction, The Mar Del Plata Short Film Festival, Argentina, March, 2009.

Category: Actress Performance, for the role of Candy Darling, The Short Film Festival of Los Angeles, United States. April, 2009.

Category: Special Acknowledgement, I’ve Seen Films Festival, Milan, Italy, October, 2009.

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Director Statement

Defrance makes use of an experimental method of montage where she lets the film develop ‘in the process’. There was not a written script, in the sense that it was written in a lineair way evolving from A to B, but there was definitely a well defined framework and theme she worked on. She makes use of a method she likes to call “cinematic writing” which means she writes the final film during the editing process. In that process the final composition of the film emerges from the separate filmed scènes, sounds, songs and texts. Where necessary she ads digital manipulation through loops, manipulation of time, reframing of found footage and adding emptied images with no representation in favour of contemplation.