Texte de Thomas Conchou (FR/EN)
Video installation :
Picadilly Circus, Circa (UK)
Nouveau Printemps (FR)
Tina gallery (UK)
Migros Museum (CH)
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. “
BRIGHT HEART has also 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)...
Technical Crew : Director of Photography: Louise Bernard Pallas; Steadicam Operator: Hannah Papacek Harper; Sound Engineer: Louise Lagabbe. Production Manager: Thomas Bouvard; Assistant Director: Mona Khaouli. Set Designer: Caroline Henry; Costume Designer: Charline Prat; Head Make-up Artist: Saleha Bouchama. Script Consultant: Lila Saint-Jean; Script Supervisor: Yuna Le Gall; Acting Coach: Haifa Geries. Editing: Gabriel Gonzalez; Sound Editing: Fabien Beillevaire; Sound Mixing: Yannis Do Couto; Color Grading: Ulysse Gaillot; VFX & Graphics: Hugo Hectus, Tristan Brundler. Original Score: Victor Da Silva. Music: “Kiss Me” by Ange Halliwell and “Cladonia Hymnal” by Sarahsson. Producers: Pauline Gacon