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Sisters

Nuns photograph themselves by the sea.
Their images appear superimposed over a cemetery landscape.
Between the sound of heels on stone and the movement of the water, the film drifts between two worlds — life and its shadow.

  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Director
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Writer
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Les soeurs
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 31 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
  • London Lift-Off Film Festival
    London, United Kingdom
    United Kingdom
    November 20, 2025
    Selected - Best Experimental
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

Sisters begins with a simple situation: nuns photographing themselves by the sea. Their gestures are ordinary, almost playful, yet the image is gradually displaced.
Through superimposition, the seaside landscape becomes entangled with another space — a cemetery. The living figures of the sisters seem to drift through a terrain marked by absence and memory.
What interested me was this fragile coexistence of worlds. The lightness of the moment, the sound of heels moving across the ground, and the presence of the sea gradually transform the image into a threshold between life and its shadow.
The film does not seek to explain this passage. It simply allows these elements — bodies, landscape, sound — to resonate together, where play, faith, and mortality briefly share the same space.