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Croix de Chavaux

Inside a subway car, the frantic speed of a mobile game played on a phone screen contrasts with the slow, hyper-detailed grip of a woman’s hand on a pole.

  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Director
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Writer
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 51 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 1920 × 1 080
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Christophe Schaeffer

Christophe Schaeffer is a French multidisciplinary artist — writer, poet, philosopher (PhD), visual artist, and lighting designer. His work spans theatre, contemporary dance, visual arts, music, and cinema, exploring perception, time, and the fragile boundaries between image and presence.
Since 2022, he has developed a body of experimental films extending his research into moving images. His cinematic practice revolves around duration, slowness, and the vibration of reality, often using extreme slow motion, long focal lengths, and mobile phone cinematography.
His films have been presented in international festivals and artistic contexts, and pursue a form of poetic cinema of attention, where images remain inhabited by gesture, silence, and lived experience.

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Director Statement

Croix de Chavaux begins with a simple observation inside a subway car. On a phone screen, a mobile game unfolds at extreme speed — fingers moving with almost mechanical precision. Nearby, a woman’s hand slowly grips a pole, her gesture magnified by the camera’s attention.
What interested me was the coexistence of these two temporalities within the same space: the accelerated rhythm of the digital world and the weight and slowness of the living body.
Through framing and duration, the film gradually shifts the viewer’s attention. The frantic movement of the game loses its centrality, while the stillness of the hand becomes the true event of the image.
The film does not judge this contrast. It simply reveals how different rhythms of presence inhabit the same place, quietly transforming our perception of time.