Experiencing Interruptions?

Trajectorie.s

A woman sits in a café, looking at her phone.

  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Director
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Writer
  • Christophe Schaeffer
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Trajectoire.s
  • Project Type:
    Experimental
  • Runtime:
    18 minutes 48 seconds
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    France
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 1920x1080
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Author Film Festival
    Barcelona, Spain
    September 30, 2025
    WINNER - Best Abstract
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

Trajectories begins with a simple everyday gesture: clicking on a phone. From this small action unfolds a series of images that seem to call each other, forming a loose constellation.
Fragments of places appear — subway stairs, a forest moving in the wind, the sky seen from an airplane window. Each image becomes a point of departure, a line in a wider movement.
What interested me was the idea that trajectories are not only physical paths but also inner movements. Through a fragmented structure, the film allows narration and abstraction to coexist, letting the viewer drift between concrete places and shifting perceptions.
Framed by a prologue and an epilogue, the film invites a quiet passage through images — a sensitive cartography of movements, where reality and imagination gradually intertwine.