La séparation
On a boat, a man’s hand moves through a woman’s hair, carried by the wind.
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Christophe SchaefferDirector
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Christophe SchaefferWriter
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Christophe SchaefferProducer
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Project Type:Experimental
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Runtime:3 minutes 28 seconds
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Country of Origin:France
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Country of Filming:Italy
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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.
On a boat, a woman sits facing the sea.
Behind her, a man’s hand moves through her hair, carried by the wind.
What interests me is the moment when a gesture becomes a relation — and when this relation begins to dissolve. The hand does not simply touch; it follows, holds, accompanies.
Then something shifts.
It is impossible to say whether the hand lets go, whether the woman moves, or whether the wind itself separates them. The gesture escapes intention.
The film unfolds within this uncertainty, where the link between two bodies is constantly redefined by an external force. The sea, the wind, the shifting boundaries between inside and outside are not a backdrop; they act upon the relation.
La séparation emerges in this fragile space — where a connection still exists, and is already being undone, not by a decision, but by the world itself.
