Under Influence
Under Influence is a fiction feature film portraying the mysterious and psychotic journey of the actress Julia Gordon, who frenetically turns her imagination into a living world away from the humdrum existence of her contemporaries. Frustrated by the character that she is playing in a new motion picture titled Being Kate Winslet, Julia Gordon finds comfort under the influence of charismatic classic film characters – which she repetitively turns into.
Under Influence is shaped like a maze of real and naturalistic events, of series of cuts, of shifts and collisions between the real world and fictional ones, of complete imaginary and fantastic situations, of visualization of thoughts, of mental associations, of wishes and fantasies that swirl through the mind of an actress who conveys her dreams to us. The plot being the point of entry into a kaleidoscopic experience of identity and of cinema in the way of a visual, auditory and physical journey.
Walk & Talk
Walk & Talk by choreographer Sidney Leoni is a lecture performance (30′) in which language and movement are treated as equal and complementary forms of expression, and from which the inspirations, aspirations and multidisciplinary works of the artist are highlighted.
Watch an excerpt of the Walk&Talk that Sidney presented on August 26th 2016 during the Tanz im August festival in Berlin. Click here >
Thomas Cartron
Thomas Cartron
Son Doan Hoang
Thomas Cartron
Thomas Cartron
Thomas Cartron
Credits
Written, directed & produced by: Sidney Leoni
Starring: Halla
Ólafsdóttir, Christine de Smedt, Steven Wendt, Mariana My Suikkanen
Gomes, Alexandra Cismondi, Elias Girod, Sidney Leoni, Zoë Poluch, Manon
Santkin
Cinematography: Hoang-Son Doan
Music by: Jonathan Uliel Saldanha
Costume design: Marie Davin
Film editing: Denis Leborgne
Sound editing & sound mixing: Raphaël Hénard
Hand shadow puppetry: Steven Wendt
Color grading: Paul Millot, Cobalt Films
Executive production: Hiros
Production designers: Ruben Desiere, Estelle Gautier, Luis Miguel Félix, Adrien Monfleur, Kevin Trappeniers
First assistant camera: Alexandre Cabanne
2nd first assistants camera: Charlotte Marchal, Ada Detraz
Grip: Brendan Senden, Pierre Schoenstein
Sound engineer: Aida Merghoub
Sound 1st assistant: Lucas Lebart
Sound 2nd assistant: Alban Cayrol
Script supervisor: Estelle Gautier
Set decorator, paper artworks: Sidney Leoni
Additional Couture clothing: Jadis Collection by Loic Barbarroux
Costumers: Sidney Leoni, Marine Vanhaesendonck
Hair & Make up: The cast, Marie Davin, Sidney Leoni
Painter: René Leoni
Film set photographer: Thomas Cartron
Additional cast: Estelle Gautier, Emma Kim Hagdahl, Michael Helland, Miles Madison, Ula Sickle
Extras: Helga Baert, Amandine Bigot, Billy Bultheel, Alexandre Cabanne, Thomas Cartron, Jenthe Coenen, Ludwig Dieleman, Fanny Evers, François Geslin, Marie Gob, Julie Gouju, Arya Honarmand, Surya Ibrahim, Louise Lanckmans, Alice Lapalu, Johan Leclercq, Bart De Leeuw, Martin Lervik, Carlos Lopez, Tamara Maes, Enad Marouf, Mara Mathyssens, Aïda Merghoub, Paul De Mont, Alex Pauwels, Matthieu Peyrand, Rudy Rillaerts, Anika Ruisch, Coline & Laurent Toulouse, Matthieu Triolet, Evelien Van De Velde.
Technical director for live screening: Akim Troch
French subtitles: Stéphanie Gauthier
Camera, lenses & equipment: BFC Rental, Eye Lite, Key Grip Systems
Sound equipment: AD HOC Sound Services
Final Sound Mix at: DojoMix Studio
Catering: A CHACUN SA MADELEINE
Administrative support: Interim Kultur (se)
Supported by: Montévideo contemporary art center (Marseille), Centre Culturel Jacques Franck (Brussels), Stockholm University of the Arts, PACT Zollverein (Essen)
Co-productions for live screenings: Beursschouwburg (Brussels), Dansens Hus (Stockholm), Kunstencentrum Buda (Kortrijk)
With the financial support of: the Flemish Community, City of Stockholm, the Swedish Arts Council
Special thanks to: Abbaye de Villers, Brasserie Du Gourmet, City of Brussels, Commune de Forest, Foodmaker, Gare de Genval, Gîte Du Chenêlet, KVS, Narafi, Luca School of Arts, OR, Potemkine bar, Scouts en Gidsen Sint-Hubertus LDK, Sipwell, Taxis Verts, Vedett.
Duration: 74 min.