Jérôme Schlomoff
1999 - France - Couleur et Noir & Blanc - 52'
Attempting to adequately communicate the concrete experience of the homeless, La Douceur dans l’abîme, is the result of a collaboration between the cineast-painter, Jérôme Schlomoff, and a writer, François Bon. The film distances itself from the three dominant forms of speech in cinema and in audiovisual in general: the practices of dialogue, questioning, listening. These postures are at once indispensable and insufficient as well as often misleading as they simply let the speakers partake of a flow, under a judgement system where the spontaneous becomes equivalent to the “true“, valuing a person's discourse for its character as unprepared, unthought speech, and in this way reducing the very imaginary of the discourse to its most unstructured manifestations. [...]
Photography : Jérôme Schlomoff
Sound : Frédéric Bourier
Editing : Catherine Mamecier
Production : Paraiso Production Diffusion
Distribution : Paraiso Production Diffusion (paraisofilms@libertysurf.fr, +33 (0)1 43 15 91 91)