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Le plongeon

A young man dives from a platform into the sea.

  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Director
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Writer
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    1 minute 12 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 1920x1080
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • 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

Le Plongeur is built around a simple gesture: a dive from a platform into the sea.
Filmed in slow motion, the movement becomes suspended. The diver’s body passes through a vertical beam of light before entering the water, transforming an ordinary action into a contemplative moment.
What interested me was this brief crossing — the instant when the body leaves solid ground and enters another element. Through duration and light, the dive becomes less a physical act than a passage.
Between air, light, and water, the image holds a fragile moment of transition.