Eric's House (2019)
General Information
Completed On: 17 Nov, 2019
Duration: 8 min 24 sec
Genres: Short
Language: france
Country: France
Submitted By: Thomas Liegeard
Festival Rating
Antoine is a great traveler, loving freedom and space, Will he finally find his haven of peace through couchsurfing on Paris in sharing and joy?
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DirectorsThomas Liegeard
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ProducersThomas Liegeard
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WritersThomas Liegeard
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Film TypeShort
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Genres
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Runtime8 minutes 24 seconds
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Completion Date17 Nov, 2019
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Production Budget1400 USD
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Country of OriginFrance
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Country of FilmingFrance
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Film Languagefrance
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Shooting Format4k
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Aspect Ratio2.35
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Film ColorColor
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Student ProjectNo
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First-time FilmmakerNo
Director's Biography
After studying science and cinema in Montpellier, Thomas Liegeard
Incorporates the National School Superior Louis Lumière in cinematography.
He graduated in image section in 1994 and started working as
Camera Assistant with Yann Le Masson, Alain Levent, Jimmy Glasberg, Luc Drion, Roger Dorieux, Pierre Morel, Yves Cape ...
At the same time, he worked as a cinematographer on some 40 short films,
including the first of the Mexican director Aaron Fernandez. He then signed two feature films as a cinematographer.
He is also involved in scriptwriting on 4 feature film projects, acting director, director and editor. He signed his first short film "Intrusion" in 2002, followed by several others.
Director's Statement
Theme
Through this film, I want to deal with several themes that are dear to me.
First, this movie is about freedom. The quest for the freedom of Antoine's character,
insatiable traveler, will confront the deprivation of freedom exercised by Eric.
He also speaks of freedom but this time from a political point of view. The film is an allegory of democracy facing the rise of the far right. The color codes are those of the French flag and somehow Antoine returns carefree in France, finds it great but does not even notice that his country is in bad shape and is threatened by radical ideas.
This threat is present in Eric's character, his double language, his attitude, his actions.
This film also has a religious interpretation. Eric is a kind of demon, and Antoine goes from paradise to purgatory where Marc is already. Both are deceived by Eric who charms them and then locks them up.
It is also a description of an artist who has turned into madness. He encloses his victims, without any empathy, seeing them just as models he has and then exposes in his living room in the form of tables.
But if all these themes are present I didn't want to emphasize them in the scenario, they are present but I let the viewer to make his own idea in front of a story a little strange that could be a news item.
I hope you'll like it.