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O MEU NOME É RENATA
27 Minutes / Experimental Documentary / De-Fr / 2024
intl title : My name is Renata, she says
Produced by Yann les Jours and Kotti Films
based on the film "3 Times" by Eva Ângelo, produced by NEC / Portugal / 2008
performance "3 Times" by Renata Catambas, Ana Monteiro, Yann les Jours, produced by NEC / Portugal / 2008
DCP - ProRes / 2k 1:78:1 / Stereo / language : Potuguese, French, English / Filmed in Portugal
Credits
Writer, Director : Yann les Jours
Producer : Annick Gibert, Yann les Jours
based on the video documentation by Eva Ângelo of the performance "3 Times" produced by NEC / Portugal / 2008
Cast : Renata Catambas, Ana Monteiro, Yann les Jours
Music : Marie Takahashi
Audio Restoration : Manu Louis
Synopsis
In 2008, Yann le Jours was a dancer and choreographer. That year, on 8 March, he presented a dance show in Porto on the stage of the Serralves Foundation. A few minutes before entering stage, Yann is informed that his father has just died. That evening, the show was presented in front of 300 spectators and captured by 3 cameras.
Based on a video archive of this performance, Yann explores the text/context relationship and the subjective part of the act of translation to narrate this event where the real time of the stage coincides with the beginning of a mourning, the end of a career and the birth of another one.
world premiere at Côté Court film festival 2025, Pantin (Fr)
Director Statement
This film is based on a 27 min documentation of a 27 min performance.
I wanted to confront this real time document to the 14 year long story it sparkeld. Taking the sound and the image of those 27min of my life and using it as landscape for telling a story that started there, during my last appearance on stage, and finished 14 years later for the screening of my first film.
This film is a lot about techical conventions and the problematics related to subtitles and translations : how to use subtitles, how and what to translate when a text must follow a voice, an image,what to translate when the dialogues are not as interesting as the story itself ?
it's also a lot about social conventions : how to allow and use social exposure in one of the deepest dire of human existence : the loss of a father?how to fail safely? what to keep from what a crisis reveals in order to overcome it?
This films asks a lot of questions but will only answer by simply existing the way it was made.
Ultimately I could say that this film is about family : The family we grew up with, that raised and educated us and that other family, equally precious, the one that adopted us all along our lifetime. That experimental documentary is about love and family.
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