HANNAH – Portrait number 6 of XXY [ɛks/ɛks/wʌi]
“I am like a tulip in the desert. I die before I open. And the desert breeze scatters my petals.”—Anonymous Afghan woman
Her perpetual quest to achieve fulfillment through the union of the feminine and masculine in a harmonious whole makes a woman a hostage of her inner male forces that are thirsting for power. She, the subject of internal struggles, who despite herself arouses jealousy and resentment. She, a weapon of war, is attacked and silenced. She, who loses an inner male guardian with each male warrior. Despite her creative power, She is the inner female force who weeps.
Written and directed by Clotilde
Produced by Tzig’Art with the support of the Secrétariat d’Etat des Droits des Femmes, the SPEDIDAM, the SACEM, the INA and the Centre Simone de Beauvoir
Shot in Icelande
Director of photography and cameraman : Florent Bourgeais
Editing : Clotilde Rullaud
Compositing and calibration : Stéphane Jarreau
Creation and title animation : Bérangère Lallemant
Dance : Dai Shaoting, Ding Yi, Xiatong Liu, Pang Kun and Sun Zhuzhen of the Shanghai Jin Xing Theater
Choreography in collaboration with the dancers
Composition : Grégory Dargent
Voice : Clotilde Rullaud
Oud : Grégory Dargent
Bass clarinet : Jean Louis Marchand
Tarhu : Nicolas Beck
Percussions : Etienne Gruel
Double-bass : Vincent Posty
Recording and mixing : Mathieu Pelletier from Downtown Studios, Strasbourg, France
Mastering : Thomas Pégorier / Brut de Prod
Cinema mastering : Bruno Gueraçague / Tabaskko
℗ & © Tzig’Art and Clotilde – 2018
Screen certificate : 150.444
Screening references : International Short Film Festival Berlin, Festival Européen du Film Court “Un festival c’est trop court!”, La Nuit Blanche, Paris Short Film Festival, Santa Cruz Film Festival, Berlin Feminist Film week, Detroit Shetown Film Festival, Biennale de la danse, Festival International de la Danse Brussels, San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Arts Triangle, Festival of Recorded Movement Vancouver, DAN.CIN.FEST, Athens Video Dance Project, InShadow festival, Akropodis Dance Festival, Zante Dance Festival, Open Nights DEFRAG Festival, Intermediaciones Muestra de videoarte y video experimental, Festival Jazz sous les pommiers, Festival Les Suds à Arles