starring ferdinand mochot and leo nivet
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symphony no.3 in f major - johannes brahms

AS: What inspired you to shoot le brame?
EM: While walking around in the countryside, I was immediately struck by the concept of « nature » around us: only fields and forest controlled by the hands of men. Geometric crops, torn to be straightened fields, un-spontaneous forms and colors yet super beautiful. The best example you have is the apple tree field, that looks like surgical scars.
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It was in resonance with my own reflexion about desire. While I was staying in an environment that looked the most like nature to me, who has always lived in the city, I was, because of COVID-19 cut from being able to have natural contacts with people, and especially people I loved. A dialogue between natural and unnatural feelings.
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So I shot le brame, as a spontaneous gesture of hope and desire that is stronger than us, as a return to a natural essence, in an man shaped world and perverted nature.
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AS: What have you been watching/reading lately? Who do you look up to artistically?
EM: I finally had the time to read fully "Remembrance of things" past by Marcel Proust, which has always been around my feelings since I started to think and I read Racine and Corneille- all there tragedies. In all these, the fact that life is shown as an unavoidable sweet passion was really comforting.
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I took time to catch up on some of french classics: Truffaut, Godard, Carax, and of course Blier - that is one of the main reference for le brame (les valseuses).
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Also, Harry Potter lovers will see a direct reference to Harry's and Cedric’s race int the maze in the 4th film. I couldn’t not mention it.
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AS: Where do you live & how’s the situation over there? I heard the quarantine is about to be over in Europe.
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EM: I Stayed for the entire quarantine in Marçon, in la Sarthe. A super bucolic region, great to see the sunset of this current world!
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I am back in Paris now the quarantine is over. There is the feeling that everything is slowly coming back as it was before, while it isn’t really. I think everybody need some time to realize what is really happening and what it really means. ♦