09/01/2022
Thanks a lot Festival international Signes de Nuit, the international jury and Dieter H. Wieczorek for this award !
Dorothée Murail, the director, statement :
" AKA comes from a deep emotion that invaded me, the depression. I started to visually transcribe many of these feelings in my mind like an architect. This process helped me to give them a form, to understand them and thus to get out of this "state" of being. The appearance of covid has triggered this feeling of unease in many people, it is a global health problem that remains very poorly known and misunderstood. I hope that talking about it and deconstructing it visually will help people understand this disease a little better. Furthermore, if it can aid people who are in the same situation, like watching this experience as a therapy, or knowing that they can re-create themself after a moment like this. Finally, I also thought this movie to express universal emotions that traverse every human being (death, life, sexuality,...etc ) I used Japanese inspiration - the red colour and the butoh dance for example- and hope it also will be an experience for every viewer."
A film produced by Azadi Productions
with the support of the Région Ile-de-France
Thanks to the whole team ❤
The talented butoh dancer Sachiko Ishikawa costume & set Marie Cantenys Margaux Lalann Adrien Dauvillier assistant director Amélie Lambert Image Quentin Devillers Boris Munger Laura Marret editing Clément Pinteaux original music Léandre Vaucher sound recording Armand Lesecq set construction Pauline Baret éliane Lorthiois Pasquale Davide Mascoli Makeup Anne Pagis Pro Jean Sanhueza additional music Frêne VFX Thierry Bonneau color grading K le Dortz mix Lucien Richardson location manager Madgit Arslan film photography Christophe Caudroy set photographer Antoine Henault poster Guillaume Ferrand producer Julia Fougeray