38th edition 2023 feature films
Pacheû
Camille Llobet
Documentary essay on the Mont-Blanc mountain range created with alpine guides and geomorphologists, within a context of brutal climate change. Three “dialogues – terrain readings” associated with the images of movements and bodies compose sensitive and subjective narratives.
Camille Llobet is a visual artist and filmmaker. She lives and works in Sallanches in Haute-Savoie. In 2023, she will be staging a major solo exhibition at the Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes. Pacheû, her first feature film, was presented at FID 2023.
- Photographie
- Antonin CLAUDE, Camille LLOBET
- Son
- Camille LLOBET, Kerwin ROLLAND
- Montage
- Camille LLOBET
- Production
- Camille LLOBET
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A word from the selection committee :
Rough slab, red pear-shaped rock, steep ridge…: Pacheû opens on a dialogue between two mountaineers as they’re reading the terrain. If Camille Llobet seems to momentarily forget about the mountains, the landscape resurfaces in the climbers’ jargon, the sound of their voices softened by the snow; that’s where the quirks of the dialect (what the hell is a Camalot? A gully?) meet the thrills of new discoveries. Indeed, Mont Blanc’s unchanging looks are deceiving, it is in perpetual mutation, and even more so in our day and age under the pressure of global warming. Pacheû (a term meaning ‘any passage that leaves traces’) conveys the many facets of this disruption: crackling ice, rumbling rock falls, a nightly excursion lit by headlamps, whether we are climbing up the mountain, or taking the time to observe… Environmental urgency captures all our senses before appearing in the words of the mountain guides and geomorphologists, as they share wondrous and scientific tales. The mountain is alive, and becomes a protagonist, requiring from the audience a new kind of attention.
- Vincent Poli