Meditation
A young woman sits in meditation, almost motionless.
Gradually another image emerges: the famous mirror scene from Paris, Texas, where a man and a woman face each other through a one-way mirror.
As the images begin to merge, the meditating figure seems to cross into the film itself.
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Christophe SchaefferDirector
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Christophe SchaefferWriter
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Christophe SchaefferProducer
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Project Title (Original Language):Méditation
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Project Type:Experimental
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Runtime:9 minutes 50 seconds
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Country of Origin:France
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Country of Filming:France
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Shooting Format:Digital 1920x1080
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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.
Meditation begins with a simple situation: a young woman sitting almost motionless in meditation.
As the film unfolds, fragments from Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas gradually appear and begin to merge with the present image. Rather than functioning as a citation, the scene becomes a threshold — a place where memory, cinema, and lived experience begin to overlap.
What interested me was this moment when images cease to belong to separate worlds. The meditating figure seems to enter the film itself, as if crossing the fragile boundary between reality and fiction.
Through layers of images and sounds — faces, landscapes, ruins — the film explores the porous nature of the real, where memory and desire circulate through the images that inhabit us.
The heart, the breath and the flows of light are not symbols. They are primary rhythms — pulses that precede interpretation, where the image becomes a place of presence rather than a representation.
