Project Detail
One Dau Trois 123
Synopsis
Gilly Booth's film One Dau Trois (123) uses three languages, two countries and two principal actors to etch out a story of passion, control, power and indifference. It draws from styles and techniques of French avant-garde cinema. It thieves Godard's directorial devices (ad hoc dialogue, actors responding through ear-phone to director's questions) to construct a "documentary" love-story based less on Godard's claim that artifice lead to truth than the idea that artifice follows its own law. The characters have it tough: A and B can barely cope with their lines, and with the insistent interference of the camera, the director and the films stylistic pretensions. They try to act cool, and discuss serious topics (only to be inundated by graphics spouting French poststructuralism and an anarchist discussing her hairdresser). Caught in the purgatory of multiple digital video and 35mm endings, the enigma of the film is cruelly withheld - unless one is versed in semaphore.
Details
- Year
- 2004
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 21 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
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Gilly Booth
- Editor
- Gilly Booth
- Screenwriter
- Gilly Booth
- Director of Photography
- Roland Denning
- Sound
- Pasha Shilov
- Composer
- Sonoval
- Principal cast
- Silvea Sacco, Fabrizio Campaiola
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Gilly Booth
59 Watermill CloseHam
Richmond TW10 7UJ
UK
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Sales Company
Lux
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London
E8 2EZ
UK
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