Nicolas Klotz & Élisabeth Perceval
Nicolas Klotz and Élisabeth Perceval have developed a writing and filming method that queries the cinematographic form as much as the upheavals of the contemporary world. The film the human being, made vulnerable and endangered by societal organization, from the corporation to state institutions, which, rather than support it, often break it. It is this human vulnerability that is at the heart of the Trilogy of Modern Times, composed of the films Pariah (2000), The Wound (2004) and The Human Question (2007), these latter two having been presented at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes. With Low Life, it is youth as the power of antiquity caught in capitalistic bewitchment that erupted at the Locarno Festival in 2012. Today, they are developing two fantasy film projects that take place during the French Revolution, Ceremony, written by Élisabeth Perceval and The Aristocrats by the writer Yannick Haenel. Confronting the cinema with spaces other than projection rooms, they produce installations for contemporary creation venues, as recently Collective Ceremony presented at the Overgarden Institute for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen. At the Festival d'Avignon, they filmed Frédéric Fisbach's Miss Julie, with Juliette Binoche in the title role - the occasion for Nicolas Klotz and Élisabeth Perceval to examine and renew the relationship between the performing arts and cinema.
ADB, avril 2013.