Many people throughout the world are subjected on a daily basis to insistent, aggressive and hostile voices which are inaudible to the rest of us. Arguments is a rigorous and sensitive exploration which maps out the perceptions of “voice hearers”, and their projection of the intimate onto the outside world. The film is an account of this often unexpressed deep suffering and chaotic din. It retraces intellectual means and the processes used to reveal them, give them shape and place at a manageable distance. In Arguments, "madness" is not considered as a rupture with reality, but in its relation to reality.This poorly understood phenomenon, as it is approached in the film, invites us to reflect more generally on the complexity of human experiences outside our society’s norms and their representation with the cinematographic language and audiovisual tools of today.
ARGUMENTS
un film de Olivier Zabat - SociétéMany people throughout the world are subjected on a daily basis to insistent, aggressive and hostile voices which are inaudible to the rest of us. Arguments is a rigorous and sensitive exploration which maps out the perceptions of “voice hearers”, and their projection of the intimate onto the outside world. The film is an account of this often unexpressed deep suffering and chaotic din. It retraces intellectual means and the processes used to reveal them, give them shape and place at a manageable distance. In Arguments, "madness" is not considered as a rupture with reality, but in its relation to reality.This poorly understood phenomenon, as it is approached in the film, invites us to reflect more generally on the complexity of human experiences outside our society’s norms and their representation with the cinematographic language and audiovisual tools of today.
Sélection à Locarno 2019 – Fuori Concorso
Sélectionné au Fipadoc - PANORAMA DE LA CRÉATION FRANCOPHONE
Festival International du film d’Amiens (FIFAM)
Rencontres documentaires de Montreuil
Festival international du film de la Roche-sur-Yon
Doc Fortnight I MoMA
Prix International du film documentaire de l’IDA au Festival international Ethnocineca, Vienne 2020
De très nombreuses personnes dans le monde doivent supporter d’entendre au quotidien des voix insistantes, agressives et hostiles, inaudibles pour nous. Arguments est une exploration à la fois rigoureuse et sensible des perceptions des "entendeurs de voix" et de leur projection de la sphère intime vers le monde extérieur. Le cinéaste rend compte d’une souffrance enfouie et d’un brouhaha chaotique souvent tues ; le film accompagne les outils intellectuels et les processus mis en œuvre pour les dévoiler, les gérer, leur donner forme et les mettre à bonne distance. Arguments n'aborde pas la "folie" selon sa rupture avec le réel, mais dans son rapport au réel. Tel qu’il est abordé dans le film, ce thème documentaire méconnu invite à une réflexion plus vaste sur la complexité de l’expérience humaine hors norme dans notre société et sur sa représentation avec le langage cinématographique et les moyens audiovisuels d’aujourd’hui.
P60
Data sheet
- Directed by
- Olivier Zabat
- Year
- 2019
- Genre
- Société
- Author
- Olivier Zabat & Emmanuelle Manck
- Montage son
- Thomas Fourel
- Photography
- Olivier Zabat
- Producer
- Nicolas Lebecque
- Executive producer
- Camille Laemlé
- Partners
- Arte, CNC, CNAP, La Région Ile-de-France
- Format
- 4K
- Langue
- Anglais
- Length
- 107'
- ISAN
- 0000-0004-D21E-0000-7-0000-0000-G
Panel Tool
Yes
No