PACHEÛ
Camille Llobet
France, Spain / 2023 / 60’
French Competition | First Film Competition FID2023

The Mont-Blanc massif with its glaciers, its walls. A well-known landscape? But what is a landscape? Perhaps, first and foremost, it’s a perspective, a physical experience, knowledge, and words. In three chapters and three places, three “dialogues – interpretations of the field” come one after another. Camille Llobet's approach is to bring words to life from the high mountains, gathering together the informed and specialised knowledge of a geomorphologist and mountain guides to question sensitive perceptions, to express the singularity of a passage, a texture or the thawing of the permafrost. From bodies to words, from images to sounds, we find ourselves not facing but with and in the landscape, a complex and fragile landscape that’s evolving, which she meticulously films as an organic, rumbling entity. Scanning the surfaces, listening for echoes, attentive to the slightest traces, to which the “pacheû” of the title refers. Magnificent shots roll out a perspective between the beauty of snow-covered slopes or raw mineral mass, their tactile, vibrant presence, and the jolts of transformation with its brutal expressions because of climate change… the cracking of rocks, the untimely melting… These sudden upheavals call into question what we already know, and demand a new way of paying attention and listening to this changing environment in order to read the signs. To pay attention and listen is what Camille Llobet invites us to do.

Nicolas Feodoroff

In the presence of the director and Claire Lasolle, member of the FIDMarseille selection committee.

Date: 26 February 2025 at 7:00pm
Place: Le Gyptis, Marseille
136, rue Loubon - 13003 Marseille