Overeating

synopsis

Greasy fingers, puffy cheeks, and pieces of meat disappearing into the guts. The film reel meets the same fate as the chicken in the jaws of the devouring man—chemically corroded and increasingly crushed in a repeated loop. The desynchronized soundtrack in this found footage collage has a similarly chewed-up effect.

“In this film, the chicken eater's jaw seems to be engaged in a strange chewing motion itself. The image is bent and torn in all directions, the film crushed under the incisive blows of a merciless hunger.” — Yann Beauvais, Le cinéma décolle

Source: https://yannbeauvais.com/?p=1012&

biography

Cécile Fontaine (born 1957) is a French artist and author of more than sixty found footage films. Her work is characterized by the chemical and mechanical manipulation of film material—she uses etching, scratching, dyeing, and gluing. In 2021, a book of interviews with her conducted by Yann Beauvais, L’émulsion fantastique: le cinéma selon Cécile Fontaine, was published.

film details

director:

Cécile Fontaine