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Été I.II.III

SUMMER (ÉTÉ) is a poetic and contemplative work divided into three distinct movements. Part I: Action and Matter / Part II: Rest and Immobility / Part III: Sharing and Contemplation

  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Director
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Writer
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 34 seconds
  • Production Budget:
    5,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
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

SUMMER (ÉTÉ) is a purely sensory cinematic proposition, an attempt to capture the essence of a season through its most intimate and universal aspects.
My intention with this triptych is to dissolve the traditional boundary between human beings and their environment. By utilizing superimposition and optical texture effects, I seek to film not merely individuals in nature, but individuals becoming one with it. The stream of water in the first part, the swaying grass over the legs in the second, and the rushing river flowing over the readers' faces in the third all form a single cycle: that of water, earth, and mind.
Through this contemplative editing and immersive sound design, SUMMER invites the audience to slow down, to feel the heat, the coolness, and the passage of time, much like a suspended childhood memory.