Atelier plan séquence
Spring semester 2022, HEAD–Genève
THE LONG TAKE (or continuous shot) — which consists of filming a sequence in one shot and allows filmmakers to offer their viewers a moment of intense inspiration or expiration — was the theme of a workshop organised in 2021-22 that focused on the relationship between the moving image, by definition evanescent, and the physical presence of spaces that are “ready to be filmed,” as well as a pretext to explore, study, and report on various nocturnal phenomena.
Insomnia, the “scourge of Western societies,” which affects close to 20% of the population according to INCERM, is a moment outside of time often seen as an endless, distressing experience by those who suffer from it.
Students Juliette Cornaz and Alexandra Miskufova borrow the slow and solitary dimension of insomnia in a dark, nuanced, and delicate continuous shot that evokes the possibility of a waking dream (or nightmare?), filming on a rail the intricate model made for the occasion.
This exercise in style aims to identify the space of the night in its physical and also temporal relationship, using the filmed space and the resulting film as a research tool.
Teacher: Youri Kravtchenko
Assistant: Cécile-Diama Samb
Students: Juliette Cornaz, Alexandra Miskufova
Head of the Department: Dr. Javier F. Contreras
Scientific Deputy: Valentina de Luigi
