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Passage

An elderly woman walks slowly through an urban passage.
Over her steps, blurred images appear in superimposition, like fragments of another time.
The walk becomes a threshold — between reality and memory, between an ordinary passage and a final crossing.

  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Director
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Writer
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Passage
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    4 minutes 25 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 4K
  • 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

Passage began with a very simple observation: an elderly woman walking slowly through a narrow urban corridor.
Her movement had a particular weight — something fragile, suspended between persistence and disappearance.
While editing the image, fragments from Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse appeared in superimposition. Rather than functioning as a quotation, they became like distant echoes, as if another time were surfacing inside the present.
What interested me was this fragile shift: how an ordinary walk can gradually become something else — a passage between memory and reality, between a simple movement through space and the idea of a final crossing.