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ABADDON

Gaspard's car rushes down a road lined by anemic trees. His radio picks up a weird frequency, a broadcast about him. The voice emitted is not that of a radio host, nor an advertising jingle, it rehashes fragments of his life. Gaspard's eyes don't look at anything, they see through things, they project his trajectory like a ruptured slideshow of the stages that have led him up to here : nowhere.

  • Geoffroy C. Dedenis
    Director
  • Geoffroy C. Dedenis
    Writer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    ABADDON
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    queer, dark, psychedelic, sombre, mystic, occult, punk
  • Runtime:
    26 minutes 20 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 21, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Language:
    English, French
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Queer Vision Film Festival 2024
    Waterford
    Ireland
    May 29, 2024
    Best Overall Production
  • AltFF Alternative Film Festival
    Toronto
    Canada
    October 1, 2024
    Best Experimental Short
  • Veracruz Itinerant Short Film Festival
    Veracruz
    Mexico
    August 25, 2024
    Best LGBT Short Film
  • Rome Prisma Film Awards - July 2024
    Rome
    Italy
    August 6, 2024
    Best Short
  • Pupila Film Festival
    Olinda
    Brazil
    August 22, 2024
    Best Cinematography
  • Pink Life QueerFest
    Ankara
    Turkey
    February 24, 2024
    Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Absurd Film Festival June-July 2024
    Cinisello Balsamo
    Italy
    July 28, 2024
    Best LGBTQ+
  • Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions 2024
    Iver Heath
    United Kingdom
    April 8, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Navy international film festival
    Seberang Perai
    Malaysia
    February 10, 2023
    BEST DEBUT SHORT FILM
Director Biography - Geoffroy C. Dedenis

I make videos, photos and multimedia collages, in which signifiers collide in order to reach deconditioned emotions through raw energy. I love language for its inevitable perversity, its brutal or subliminal shifts. Polysemy and referential ambivalence are essential to the constitution of my works. They mainly deal with (homo)sexual desire, love, happiness, emptiness and alienation. My films have been screened at numerous events in Europe and beyond.

I shot my first narrative essai "A Crown of Thorns" in 2020, and finally had the opportunity to be financed by the prestigious association Le G.R.E.C. for my most ambitious film, ABADDON.

In 2023 La Cinémathèque française included two of my shorts for its big summer event "L'Image des plaisirs. Sexpérimentaux".

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Director Statement

I stare at the agressive aspects of lust and the everyday so-called reality people usually prefer to forget. I dismantlee this raw material to compose new fragmented objects in which the sleazy fuses with the sacred.