We Had Fun Yesterday

synopsis

Marion Guillard is an ornithologist and filmmaker who has been capturing wild nature since her youth. Images of nature also dominate her autobiographical essays. However, the author's voiceover tells a story that is different from the journey across the United States she once embarked on with her family—it tells of her complex relationship with her own body and sexuality. Parallels gradually emerge between seemingly unrelated topics. The bulimia Guillard suffered from as a teenager was not limited to fast food. Similarly, she did not limit herself in collecting footage of the landscape, which helped her divert her attention from her own physicality. With the passage of time, she realizes how much she was determined by culture and society in both cases – in her view of herself and the outside world.

“A succession of sequences illustrating various forms of representation of nature, such as wildlife films, natural parks and zoos, are set in motion around my personal experience as a wildlife filmmaker, visual artist, ornithologist, woman and body.” — Marion Guillard

biography

Marion Guillard is a French filmmaker, researcher, and visual artist. She graduated from an agricultural school in Burgundy. In her artistic work and theoretical texts, she primarily reflects on the social dimension of how people capture and depict nature.

film details

director:	Marion Guillard
producer:	Cyril Bibas, Stéfanie Bodien
script:	Marion Guillard
editing:	Pauline Piris Nury , Lenka Fillnerova
sound:	Maxime Thomas, Sébastien Van Dhelsen, Jeff Levillain