Ludivine

This moving portrait of Ludivine is an ode to adolescence. The girl is sitting on a beach, her face filmed in a fixed frame. Alternately pensive or smiling, the young girl plays a delicate game with the camera as it scans her face for imperceptible movements. Image by image, in a majestic state of slow motion, the video becomes a successive accumulation of sensation, an impression relayed by processing over-exposed film and the nostalgic 1970s music (California Dreamin' by The Mamas and The Papas) that accompanies it. In a perpetual motion of ebb and flow, of appearance and disappearance, the camera captures a feminine attitude, while pop music with universal overtones enhances its fascinating immateriality.