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BLOCK 4 Subtitle Sessions – Powerful foreign language shorts 59min

A painter gives three magic pills to his visually impaired girlfriend, then intentionally loses her in the crowd. Thanks to a painting and to the three pills that transform the view into a painting style, she will search for the painter and his secret, without suspecting that, in the shadows, he will observe her during his passionate quest.

  • Runtime
    15 min
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    United States
  • Note
    Dijon, France; Director Biography - Karleener Karleener (the name of a neighborhood in Prague where he often lives) is the artist's name of a Professor at the University of Burgundy, Johel Mitéran, specializing in digital image processing, and author-photographer - director. He has made several exhibitions (abstraction and figurative) in abstract photography (glass and light), in Dijon, Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, Prague, Paris and Cesky Krumlov. Borrowing from painting, drawing and photography, he is currently working on projects related to movement, dance and sometimes surrealism. He directed L'accompagnante (The accompanying dancer), first short film in collaboration with the Ateliers du Cinéma in Beaune, founded by C. Lelouch, in 2017, Flamboyantes (Blazing)in 2018, and La mouche de Bronze (The bronze fly) in 2019. Director Statement Translating vision blindness on the screen in a subjective way, like the vision of an abstract painter, was a challenge for the imagination and the realization. My creative world is oriented towards poetry, dreamlike, I wanted to take up this challenge through a story borrowing fantastic realism, in the spirit of some works of Marcel Aymé or Balzac, since the pills created by the painter partially restore the sight, but accentuate the aging. Note that specific software was developed for the animation from computer generated paintings, in collaboration with Computer Graphics and Interaction Department of CVUT (Prague), and Imvia Laboratory in France.