Oriane DESCOUT
2019 - 95 min - HD
A coproduction Ana Films, amarillo Produçoes Audiovisuais, Oito TV and Mosaïk TV.
With the support from Région Grand Est and Strasbourg Eurométropole, from Moulin d’Andé-CÉCI, Centre des Écritures Cinématographiques (DRAC & Région Haute-Normandie, Département de l’Eure), from Polo audiovisual de Cataguases et Fábrica do Futuro and from Lei Estadual de Incentivo a Cultura de Minas Gerais in partnership with Energisa.
Director: Oriane Descout
Cinematography: Oriane Descout
Sound Recording: Oriane Descout
Production: Milana Christitch and Tatiana Mitre
Editing Concept: Ana Carolina Soares and Oriane Descout
Editing: Éléonore Greif, João Gabriel, Ríveres, and Oriane Descout
Sound Editing and Mixing: Kinane Moualla
Original music: Wagner Candian
Color grading: Gautier Gumpper
Animation: Jackson Abacatu
Music recording and mixing: Glaydson Mendes
Graphic Design: Clara Moreira
Performers: Oriane Descout and Márcio Soares Santos
Animation Assistants: Fabiano Banna and Leandro Silveira
Local Production: Rafaella Lima and Renatta Barbosa
Stills and Behind-the-Scenes: Rafaella Lima and Jáder Barreto Lima
SYNOPSIS
In 2011, Oriane left France to join Marreco, her Brazilian partner, in an alternative lifestyle in rural Brazil. Driven by the dream of creating an anti-capitalist utopia and building her own earthen house, she filmed, in first-person perspective, the challenges they faced during their seven-year journey. Animated scenes are superimposed over the filmed footage, symbolizing the couple’s dreams and anxieties. The backdrop is Brazil’s political situation and the collective, self-managed community within which the couple will attempt to find a way forward.
THE DIRECTOR
Born in 1987 in St-Nazaire, Oriane turned to documentary filmmaking while studying at the École Louis Lumière, where she directed Écrit dans la marge, a film about the Lycée Expérimental de St-Nazaire. She then filmed Puisqu'on nous envoie promener, co-directed with two friends, during a march by undocumented immigrants. At the same time, she led video workshops in Paris. In 2011, she moved to Brazil. She directed the web series Le Brésil, Marcio… et moi ? and began writing Château de terre.
