Marie Fages
Directing
Biography
Marie Fages is a filmmaker, artist, and scenographer, graduated of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome (2011) and EnsAD in Paris (2013). She develops a practice inspired by the places she has lived in and passed through — La Réunion, Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon, Berlin — as well as by encounters with singular individuals, to bring forth forms of emancipation that emerge from the crumbling of dominant narratives. Through experimental cinema, she creates sensorial forms inhabited by mythical figures in motion and transformation. Her work explores the power of imagination to open spaces for transformation and freedom. Her films have been presented at numerous international festivals, including the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montreal), the International Festival of Films on Art (Montreal), the Champs Élysées Film Festival (France), the Tehran International Short Film Festival (Iran), the Cairo Video Festival (Egypt), and the Beijing International Short Film Festival (China).
Known For
Sahar tirelessly travels the forgotten plains and cliffs of his native island to prospect for a rare mineral. Suddenly, a voice upsets his search, his relationship with the world, and our Milky Way.
Atér
Fisheress, beware not to catch in your nets the sulfurous Seranha! The malefic Venenus, from her mouth injected, will inflame your sleeping ecstasy and transform you forever…
Venenus
Mr. America is an auteur thriller that takes inspiration from the story of David Solanas, to represent the negative spiral of many artists, dazzled by the temporary celebrity that brought Andy Warhol, the curse that for some was fatal. The film develops on three distinct temporal planes that intertwine swirlingly to form a canvas of past, present and future. The brutal and obsessive acts that were committed in Penny's childhood generate a ruinous family relationship that will be the focus of the story.
Mr. America
After fourteen years away from her homeland, Salomé is forced to return to Cape Verde to see her dying brother. During her stopover at Lisbon airport, Águeda, a cleaning lady, recognizes Salomé as "Mila", her childhood friend. Águeda invites Salomé to leave the airport and spend the stopover at her home, with the women of her family. The neighborhood transports her on a spiritual journey, whose destination reveals a painful bond with her homeland.
Nha Mila
As a very simple and short visual poetic film, Artifício explores how to play with the rythm, form, and sound in a surrealistic way. It proposes another possible sound for the image, another possible image for this sound.