De sorte que
A woman listens to a poem — and her body begins to respond.
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Christophe SchaefferDirector
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Christophe SchaefferWriter
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Christophe SchaefferProducer
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Project Type:Experimental
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Runtime:7 minutes 35 seconds
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Country of Origin:France
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Country of Filming:France
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Black & White and Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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.
A woman sits among others during a poetry reading.
A voice insists, repeating the same opening: “de sorte que.”
What interests me is the moment when language no longer remains external, but begins to act on the body. The woman listens, but her hands respond — fingers rubbing, small gestures emerging, as if something were passing through her rather than being understood.
The poem does not illustrate an idea; it produces a physical effect.
A tension builds between the spoken words and the silent reactions of the body.
Gradually, the film opens onto other images: footsteps, a beach, moving shadows.
The interior experience becomes a space, a crossing. Listening turns into displacement.
The film unfolds in this fragile passage between language and sensation — where meaning is no longer something we grasp, but something that transforms us.
