Short film
Chromo sud
1968 · 21 min
A hypnotic, fragmented plunge into druggy hedonism, with rapid cuts and layered images that feel like a half-remembered, erotic dream.
- Directed by
- Étienne O'Leary
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Anne-Marie, Michel Auder, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou
- Overview
- One of the very few films made by Etienne O'Leary, all of which emerged from the French underground circa 1968 and can be very loosely designated 'diary films.' Like the contemporaneous films by O'Leary's more famous friend Pierre Clementi, they trippily document the drug-drenched hedonism of that era's dandies. O'Leary worked with an intoxicating style that foregrounded rapid and even subliminal cutting, dense layering of superimposed images and a spontaneous notebook type shooting style. Yet even if much of O'Leary's material was initially 'diaristic,' depicting the friends, lovers, and places that he encountered in his private life, the metamorphoses it underwent during editing transformed it into a series of ambiguously fictionalized, sometimes darkly sexual fantasias. - Experimental Film Club
- How it feels
- Eerie, dark, absurd and campy. Brisk and demanding.
- About
- Obsession, identity, art, sexuality
- Content
- Strong sexual content. Mild violence. No gore or swearing.
- Note
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- Directed by
- Étienne O'Leary
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Anne-Marie, Michel Auder, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou
