WORDS
A cinematographic rewrite of her performance Collision(s), Isabella Soupart’s film Words uses a free variation of the concept of Interviewing. Several phases involve just words, or their absence, or their deflected meaning. At the heart of the film, dancer and actress Bérengère Bodin recreates on her own the famous interview between Deleuze and Parnet. Words are addressed to an invisible recipient one tries to seek out. The body, the bestial body, is the only link with reality, dancing and searching to connect with objects. The image craftily shifts to a desperate sprint as confused street noises take over.
WORDS est l’adaptation cinématographique d’une performance créée en 2010 dans le cadre du festival Européen Temps d’Images. Le film Words d’Isabella Soupart déploie une variation libre sur le concept d’Interview. En plusieurs temps, tout sera pourtant question de mots, de leur absence, de leur glissement. Au centre de Words, l’actrice et danseuse Bérengère Bodin recrée à elle seule, la célèbre interview entre le philosophe français Gilles Deleuze et la Journaliste Claire Parnet. Les mots s’adressent à un récepteur invisible que l’on cherche des yeux. Seul le corps reste arrimé au réel, corps animal, corps dansé, cherchant le contact aux objets. Subtilement, l’image glisse vers une course éperdue dans la montée indistincte des bruits de la rue.
A cinematographic rewrite of her performance Collision(s), Isabella Soupart’s film Words uses a free variation of the concept of Interviewing. Several phases involve just words, or their absence, or their deflected meaning. At the heart of the film, dancer and actress Bérengère Bodin recreates on her own the famous interview between Deleuze and Parnet. Words are addressed to an invisible recipient one tries to seek out. The body, the bestial body, is the only link with reality, dancing and searching to connect with objects. The image craftily shifts to a desperate sprint as confused street noises take over.
Director Isabella Soupart • Screenwriter Isabella Soupart & Stephane Taquet • Cast Bérengère Bodin, Kris Dane • Camera Philippe Guilbert • Camera assistant Ana Samoilovich • Editing Mathieu Haessler • Set design Jim Clayburgh • Sound design Thomas Turine • Sound recording Marc Doutrepont.
Production 2012 • Producer H&B films Production Hugues Bultot (BE).
Supported by Les Halles de Schaerbeek, (BE).
Photography©Isabella Soupart