Les Raboteurs

The Planers

by Cyril Collard

France - 1988

Wednesday, June 5th • 2PM
At Chaktomuk

Short Film – 7mn

Color

French

ScreenplayCyril Collard

CinematographyDaniel Barra

MusicThierry Lancino

CastAngelin Preljocaj’s company

Format35mm – Mono

GenreDance

First Release1988

Awards1989 : Canal Plus Award at Paris Film Heritage Festival

ProductionMusée d’Orsay

SynopsisA contemporary couple in an empty room in a Parisian. They talk of love, vision, points of view and illusion. Is what these three dancers on the wooden have frozen in space with their choreographed movements and the positions of the three workers in Gustave Caillebotte’s painting “The Floor Scrapers” ?

AboutCyril Collard a French author, filmmaker, composer, musician and actor. He is known for his unapologetic portrayals of HIV in art, particularly his autobiographical novel and film Les Nuits Fauves (Savage Nights). Angelin Preljocaj is born in 1957. His choreographic work is steeped in his writing of the history of classical ballet, but is resolutely contemporary. He joined the repertoire of the Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris in the early 1990s and has headed the company since 1985. Preljocaj, subsequently renamed Ballet Preljocaj, has been in residence at the Black Hall of Aix-en-Provence (France) since 1996.
“I was attracted by the way that Cyril emerged from the story. The script about a break up between a couple in the painting is pure dance, there are movements, the scrapes are there without bing there, like ghosts, like stubborn witnesses of the couple’s past. Their silent and active presence says a lot” Angelin Preljocaj.

Selective filmography of Cyril Collard
(1957-1993)

1986 – Alger la Blanche

1990 – Le Lyonnais

1992 – Les Nuits Fauves

With the courtesy ofShort Film Agency (Paris)