No-Shows

Feature film, 2021-2022, 2024.

Synopsis : an artist, after being hospitalized, has to go back on stage for a new show ; the action takes place during his recovery after his return home, with the memory about the person who did not survive, who occupied a room across the corridor from this hospital ; this special period will be a turning point to know how to continue, because neither life nor art needs suffering.

Technicalities : diegetic silence and north american voice over, based on "Récit d’une descente aux abîmes" by Paul Melchior Paul Melchior ; noises arranged by Toni Melliug & extracts from "Giuditta" by Franz Lehar, original leitmotif "Prelude to Irma" by Andrea Goretti piano ; POV shot, filming 2021 somewhere in Europe ; edition and production Pascal Maurice ; special thanks to Marcel Guilleminot, thanks to Hermitage Invisible, 66 min., editing 2022 with subtitle "No-Film for Ukraine" by Singuliers magazine for the promotion of the book "Russian scams during the war in Ukraine", 2024.

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