
BA FILM STUDIES
Antonin Dutoit – À perte de vue
by Antonin Dutoit
An old man dies slowly, cared for by a home aide. A young man watches them, in silence.
Deep underground, Alexandre follows voices and sounds, which arise from and lead him to a lost woman.
A young woman, Sophie, has disappeared into a cave. Out of despair, her family hires Alexandre : a clairaudient medium who perceives inaudible sounds, to find her. Voices guide him in his search through a maze of stones and, as he listens, echoes from the past invade his mind, throwing him into a trance between dream, memory and reality. This film is intended to be a sensory experience, a hallucination with Alexandre in this sonic turmoil. Sound as dread : faces on the rocks and rumours in the creaks. A ghost train of sound, where in the murmurs of the present hides forgotten echoes; fragments of plaintive songs, snatches of the ocean spitting out drowned melodies to which we never thought we'd dance again.