Artoflosing — Tarek Lakhrissi

Bright Heart (Coeur Brillant), 2023, HD video, with Dourane Fall, Alain Vergara, Maïa Hawad, Marie-Julie Chalu and Adrien Martins, produced by Maison Populaire, Malfamé Productions & Beursschouwburg (FR, BE). Photo : stills. Collection IAC/Villeurbanne.

Texte de Thomas Conchou (FR/EN)

“ In this new short film, Tarek Lakhrissi continues his work around a queer aesthetic combining formal research, representations of queer and racialised minorities and a critical vision of our societies. Summoning the imagination and the codes of fantastic cinema, the film follows the nocturnal stroll of a young man quickly threatened by a mysterious helmeted motorcyclist. Finding refuge in an empty museum (in this case the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris), he makes several decisive encounters there: two female vampires who declaim a poetic and committed text, as well as a gogo-dancer with a body of man but with the face of a dinosaur. Overall, Bright Heart follows the journey of a character towards self-affirmation and his own power (through the allegorical figure of the vampire) but also the awakening of a political and social conscience. Mixing contemporaneity and time immemorial, references to queer icons from both pop culture (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and contemporary art (Felix Gonzalez-Torres and his famous performance "Untitled" (Go-Go Dancing Platform) by 1991), Tarek Lakhrissi composes with Bright Heart an initiatory tale hybrid and polished, political and intimate. “

Equipe technique :

Directrice de La Photographie: Louise Bernard Pallas
1ere Assistante Caméra: Micaela Albanese
2e Assistant Opv: Florian Rey
Chef Électricien: Nader Chalhoub
Electricien: Thomas Weyland
Chef Machiniste Pierre Frink
Machiniste: Louise Lapegue
Steadicam: Hannah Papacek Harper
Ingénieure Son: Louise Lagabbe
Perchman: Renaud Perret
Directeur De Production: Thomas Bouvard
Assistante De Production: Lucia Thielke
Regisseuse Generale: Charlotte Gasiglia
Régisseur Adjoint : Jean Claude Joam
Régisseur: Valentin Prud’homme
Cheffe Costumière: Charline Prat
Habilleuse: Tania Alcocer
Décoratrice: Caroline Henry
Chef Maquilleuse: Saleha Bouchama
Assistante De Réalisation: Mona Khaouli
Consultante Scénario: Lila Saint-Jean
Scripte: Yuna Le Gall
Coach Acteur-Ices: Haifa Geries
Photographes Plateau: Maxime Saint-Jean Guil Sela Clarisse Guichard
Montage Image: Gabriel Gonzalez
Montage Son: Fabien Beillevaire
Mixage Son: Yannis Do Couto
Etalonnage: Ulysse Gaillot
Vfx Et Graphisme: Hugo Hectus, Tristan Brundler
Composition Musicale: Victor Da Silva
Musiques Originales: “ Kiss Me ” d’Ange Halliwell, “ Cladonia Hymnal ” de Sarahsson
Producteur-ices : Pauline Gacon, Walid Bekhti, Sherianne Leïla Bekhti, Yannis Zaccharie Bekhti
Materiel Image: Tsf Cinema
Materiel Son: Dinosaures
Materiel Regie: Nestor

BRIGHT HEART has been screened at Cinéma Méliès (FR), Toronto Queer Film Festival, St. Moritz Art Film Festival, North African Queer Film Festival, Afrobrix Festival, PAF Olomouc, XPOSED Queer Film Festival Berlin, Palma Japan International Short Film Festival and in different art museums like Migros Museum (CH), JSF (DE), Istituto Svizzero (IT), Cypher (GR), Tina Gallery (UK)...