Project Detail

One Dau Trois 123

Name: One Dau Trois 123
Director: Gilly Booth
Genre: Experimental, Woman Director
Released: 2004
Duration: 21 mins

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: 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

Experimental Woman Director

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Gilly Booth

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