Atomes

“He who hides his madman dies voiceless.”
Henri Michaux, Face aux verrous.

ATOMES is the summer of FOUDRE, a film in four seasons by Manuela Morgaine, a legend that lets us experience in cinema the detonation of a lightning bolt of love. It unfolds over one season, summer, a stormy summer, within several centuries, between today and the eighteenth. One must therefore not worry about what does not “match”, neither in the weather, nor in the time that unfolds and is subject to jumps, nor in the film formats that change, nor in the costumes that disturb the chronology of the periods, nor in the ways of speaking, nor in the spaces that lightning crosses at the speed of a flash, it that has this gift of ubiquity of which we all dream, which sometimes branches out over several continents at once. From one sky to another sky, capable of being all spaces, the sky is always there, just as it is in itself with all its variations of rites, seasons and moods. Lightning is unpredictable, strikes in every direction. This film is a continuous zigzag. The word zigzag comes from the German term that expresses the back and forth of love. It is the chosen movement. The model is the shape of the lightning flash. It is the opposite of a straight line with a beginning and an end, and everything evolving slowly from one to the other. The end is already there from the start, rumbling.

Music & sound design: Philippe Langlois