Pierre Creton
All about love… films such as Go, Toto ! (FID 2017) and Beautiful Summer (FID 2019) were radiantly so. After Life after Death (2002) and The Hour of the Shepherd (FID 2008), The House, is in Pierre Creton is work the cardinal point of his work. House of love: this short film, truly novel in style, takes us into the deepest depths of the matrix, the most intimate core of his work. Three circular panoramas follow one after the other, in three different interiors. Placed in the centre of the room, the camera rotates. Each shot is associated with a piece of music, that fills the space with sound throughout. If image and music come together in such perfect harmony, it is because Creton has placed his camera on a record player, a perfect motorised stand. A simple and ingenious operation, which turns the record into a camera, endowing music with the power to record the passage of time and beings, the variations of the visible as we listen. The monotonous rotation is interrupted by a multitude of events: variations in light, the movement of greenery in the wind seen through the window, the free and active presence of animals, the furtive spectre-like passages of humans. Shadows and reflections of the living and the dead, equally present and absent between the walls that have preserved the memory of love, of hours spent in embrace or listening to records. A gay porno soundtrack sneaks in between Pierre Henry’s creaking door and the song from the second house. In the third, the final chorus of the St Matthew’s Passion invites us to gather around the tomb, awaiting resurgence. With each turn of the camera, a boundless intimate world is born, dies and resurrects. Houses of love are also monuments to the dead, past or future. Sex and death, a secret chamber mingling art and life. Asceticism, regularity, discretion: this new form is also that of the modesty required of those who venture beyond the threshold of such a room.
(Cyril Neyrat)
- Flash Competition
- 2021
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Flash Competition
HOUSE OF LOVE
Pierre Creton
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Flash Competition
Technical sheet
France / 2021 / 21’
Original Version : No dialogue.
Script : Pierre Creton.
Photography : Pierre Creton.
Editing : Pierre Creton.
Sound : Pierre Creton.
Production : Pierre Creton.
Filmography : La cabane de dieu, 2012-2020. L’avenir le dira, 2020. Le bel été, 2019. Un dieu a la peau douce, 2019. Va, Toto !, 2017. Sur la voie critique, 2013-2017. Simon at the crack of down (réalisé avec Vincent Barré), 2016. Petit traité de la marche en plaine (réalisé avec Vincent Barré), 2014. Sur la voie, 2013. Le Marché, petit commerce documentaire, 2012. Côté jardin, 2011. Le grand cortège, 2011. N’avons-nous pas toujours été bienveillants ? (recueil), 2010. Deng guo Yuan, in the garden, 2010. Aline Cézanne, 2010. Le paysage pour témoin, rencontre avec Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt, 2009. Papa, Maman, Perret et moi, un appartement pour témoin, 2009. Maniquerville, 2009. L’heure du Berger, 2008. Mètis (réalisation Vincent Barré), 2007. Les vrilles de la vigne, 2007. L’arc d’Iris, souvenir d’un jardin (réalisé avec Vincent Barré), 2006. Paysage imposé, 2006. Le voyage à Vézelay, 2005. Détour suivi de Jovan from Foula (réalisé avec Vincent Barré), 2005. Secteur 545, 2004. Le soleil les regarde (recueil), 2002. Une saison, 2002. La vie après la mort, 2002. La tournée, 1997. L’assujetti, 1999. Mercier et Camier (réalisé avec Sophie Roger), 1998. Sept pièces du puzzle néolibéral, 1997. Le vicinal, 1994. Soleil, 1988.
- Autres films / Flash Competition