Experiencing Interruptions?

Electre

A woman sleeps on a plane, her hand resting on a silent phone.

  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Director
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Writer
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 41 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    Spain
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • 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

Electre begins with a very simple situation: a young woman sleeping on a plane, her hand resting on a silent phone.
What interests me is the moment when images no longer come from the device that usually produces them, but from the interior of the sleeper.
Through superimpositions, fragments from Ingmar Bergman’s Persona emerge in black and white — eyes, faces, silent gazes. The woman remains in color, anchored in the present, while these images appear like the material of a dream crossing her.
The film gradually moves closer to the sleeping face, lingering on the closed eye, while the open eyes of Persona appear in superimposition. Between them, a subtle tension emerges: an outer gaze meeting an inner vision.
The title refers to the character in Persona, an actress who falls into mutism after a performance. This silence opens a space where identities blur and where images acquire a new intensity.
At a time when screens constantly produce and organize our attention, dreams may remain one of the last places where images emerge freely.