Judith Auffray

7h15 - merle noir - Film - 30min - 2021

présenté dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 23

Film


A man lives like a hermit in a forest in Lozère and records the sound of the animals living around him. To capture these invisible presences, he has placed microphones in different positions around the forest. He listens from his cabin for the sounds they pick up, notes and classifies each presence, naming it and archiving it away. One night, he hears a cry he does not recognise. He goes looking for the creature that made the sound and meets Mana, a young girl who communicates with the birds. She joins his quest, which leads them to an abandoned mine, after a storm.

Judith Auffray


Judith Auffray was born in Paris in 1993. She studied painting and drawing at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon then cinema at HEAD-Geneva. Her first feature film, A house (2020), shown in several festivals (such as Cinéma du réel, FID Marseille) and awarded at Ji.hlava IDFF and Bosifest, was released in cinemas in November 2021. She entered Le Fresnoy in 2020 where she made two films : 7:15-Blackbird (Cinéma du réel, Brive Film Festival, Côté Court) and Men of the night (San Sebastian IFF).

Production


Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing

Partenaires

Ircam - Centre Pompidou — Fondation d’entreprise Neuflize OBC

Credits


› Scénario : Judith Auffray
› Interprétation : Jean Poinsignon, Mana Féron
› Image : Mario Valero Palacín, Raimon Gaffier
› Montage image : Judith Auffray
› Son : Stéphane Debien, Kilian Fanget
› Décoration : Margot Clavel, Olivier Bienz
› Montage son : Judith Auffray, Stéphane Debien
› Mixage : Thomas Fourel
› Accompagnement artistique : Athiná-Rachél Tsangári