Experiencing Interruptions?

Here there and everywhere

A woman on a tram.
In the blink of an eye, we find the world, here, there and everywhere.

Note : The characters in my films aren't actors. They're ordinary people who don't know they're being filmed. What interests me is filming reality at that precise moment, capturing the scene and revealing its poetry.
All my films are made with a mobile phone.

  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Director
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Writer
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 4 seconds
  • 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
Director Biography - Christophe Schaeffer

Christophe Schaeffer is a french philosopher (doctor), essayist, poet and artist. He is also a "lighting designer" scenographer for theater, contemporary dance, opera.
Since 2022, Christophe Schaeffer has been making experimental films linked to his work as a lighting designer, scenographer and author. To date, he has made around fifty films, ranging from 1 minute to 15 minutes in length.
In January 2024, he was invited to the Trente-Trente Festival, founded and directed by Jean-Luc Terrade, where several of his films were presented to the public under the title "La doublure du réel". The journal of literature, ideas and arts "En attendant Nadeau" devoted an article to his work where we find for the first time the designation of cinematic poet. The article describes the process of creating the films and refers to different authors, including the photographer Vivian Maier, the philosopher Clément Rosset and Antonin Artaud in the composition of the film material and the relationship between the sacred and the real. A link is also mentioned between the alchemist philosopher and his poetic research as a director.

As part of his work as a director, Christophe Schaeffer became an associate artist in 2024 with the musical structure TM+, founded and directed by Laurent Cuniot with the aim of combining contemporary music creations with his experimental films. In January 2025, the two artists collaborated on the piece D’une Sérénade l’autre, a creation based on Arnold Schönberg’s Opus 24, with the painting Le Concert by Nicolas de Staël as a watermark. For this creation, Schaeffer made a 55-minute film, divided into 14 movements based on those of the works of Schönberg and Cuniot. Musicologist Michèle Tosi speaks here of a work on the image that resonates with the music while giving it its own space.

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