HAMSTERs
A film by
Martine Doyen
Exprmtl fiction
(Black & White,VO FR st. ENG, 55′, Full HD)
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SYNOPSIS
A phenomenon of collective hysteria, a dancing mania similar to that seen in 1564 in Molenbeek, has started in the Marolles. The ‘contaminated’ people gather in the streets to dance frenetically. They have nothing in common, except to have have witnessed, from near or far, a terrorist attack.
HAMSTERs – An experimental feature film improvised with the means at hand in a popular neighbourhood in Brussels, interpreted by amateur actors and residents.
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DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
This is alternative cinema :poor but free. HAMSTERs has been shot with a very small camera, a computer and very limited ressources. This means no technical crew on the set, just me and the actors…HAMSTERs could not have been made differently ; its creation process, very open and based on improvisation in every level, was incompatible with the ways of film industry.
In 2009, four years after the production of my first feature film KOMMA, I was just writing scripts and I want to make a film. As in my beginnings, I’ve started a movie with just nothing: only ideas, actors, some places, a small camera and a computer. With the time, this improvised work became TOMORROW, an experimental feature about Procrastination… The experience was so interesting that I continued wit HAMSTERs. A painter paints, a musician plays music, a sculptor sculpts. This means me, I should be filming, right?
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CREW
Directing
Martine Doyen
Screenplay
Martine Doyen
Photography
Martine Doyen, Maxime Gourdon.
Sound
Gauthier Hammer
Film editing
Martine Doyen & Patxi Endara
Sound editing
Casio Bxl
Mixing
Gauthier Hammer
Music
Casio Bxl, David Chazam.
Interpretation
Frédéric Rolland, Delphine Brual, Veerle Vaes, Jerôme Roland, Nicolas Monfort, Jean-Pierre Rostenne, Jean-Claude Dupéciaux, Georges Dykmans, Sophie Thirion, David Chazam, Sébastien Versluys, Corinne Pelé, Florence Petranto, Giuseppe Porcaro, André Guillaume Jacques, Marion Fougeret, Katleen van Lombeek, Emilie Ketels, Jeanne Boute, Alain Haubursin, Xavier Gorgol, Maria Brouillard, Madeleine Kobia, Bettina Windelschmidt, José & Leoncia Martinez, Christine Lapage,Jean-Luc Philippe, Luc Vanuytrecht.
Performers
Mother Fakir, Fyl Sang D’or & Anne-Laure Misme, Téresa Hernandez.
Production
Spinach Productions asbl
With the Support of
Brigittines Art Center
Recyclart Art Center
Echevinat de la Culture de la Ville de Bruxelles
Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (VGC)
Le FILMLAB du Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel
De la Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles et de VOO
FOND TRIODOS.
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