Harold Charre

In a dark and smoky city, a medium predicts the future of two young lovers. Into her crystal ball she sees nature creating apocalypse, then the wandering of a diver in the sunken ruins. A musical and sensitive journey where the future and the past is intermingling.

In the 1960's, a barrel organ player walks in Madrid with his son. In an effort to pass on part of his knowledge to him, he awakens the heavy past of the Spanish land which has lived through the horror of the Civil War.

This video has been made thanks to the Madatac Residency and Production Prize at the Casa de Velasquez in Madrid.

A dark mass lies ahead, in nature. This nature, we do not know if she is dying or if she is overkill. An old priest observes this strange mass closely and decides to undertake a long journey. But is this really an escape?

"Atmospheric and beguiling – using multifarious image techniques and musical tones to "imply" a story – the experience proved [Guy] Maddinesque in parts – and on each repeated viewing became more compelling". (Andrew Kötting)

The film tells the story of a man in love, who believes his happiness lost when an eagle steals the jewel that his wife entrusted him with. But it is not just any jewel; it is an invaluable, lucky charm necklace. Then the man has only one thought in his mind; to recover the lost object. As in a dream, he sinks into endless wandering, crossing innumerable countries, dragging us into his quest.

"Our vision is blurred, our perception of the world is crumbling. Only the silhouettes of the man and the eagle, which stand distinctly on a moving backdrop, provide us with a landmark. It is an astonishing duel that the film proposes, both silent and musical, narrative and experimental, and a beautiful story about the obsession of happiness and the fear of its loss." (Margaux Bonnet)

A musical and visual poem in which the flow of pedestrians walking in the street evanesce into a ghostly meandering within the frame of the city and the frame of the screen, creating a texture like dream.

"Walk in Frames mounts partition-image ingredients on partition-sound. The image being like the note played, like the note in reprise, in B flat or sharp because the pattern is enlarged, reduced, or the figures split, becoming blurred up to the ectoplasm. Light shadows cross the road; ghostly masses haunt inseparable sidewalks. Such a passerby is specified in pause, the man with the hat in leitmotiv. The score-image prefers discontinuity and the musical phrasing binds the fragments together. The music changes its tone, soaring. The black and white image wraps itself in yellow tinting, without a change of place or time."  (Simone Dompeyre)

4% of Americans believe in reptilians, a conspiracy theory which argues aliens hide among the high ranks of power and control us. “Camera Obscura” is a reaction to the obscurantism and ignorance perpetuated through complacent political and religious extremist videos which play off of the fears of a nation. This obscurantism has been spreading across the western world, sabotaging our need to rethink the world we live in. The film follows a woman as she spirals down an absurd stream of images found on the internet - all alleged pieces of evidence proving the existence of reptilians - leading her to question her very nature.    

A scientist, in the confusion of the city, falls into a profound distress. The psychological dissociation is correlated with the dissociation of atoms.