Studio tutor: Youri Kravtchenko **(****Ykra Architectes)

Assistant:** Cécile-Diama Samb

“The refusal to divide up the event, to analyse the dramatic area in time, is a positive operation whose effect is greater than that which the classical division could have produced... / ... [it] supposes respect for the continuity of the dramatic space and naturally for its duration.”

André Bazin, What is Cinema? (1994)

…A SEQUENCE SHOT – which consists of filming a sequence in one shot for a greater or lesser period of time, allowing filmmakers to offer their viewers a moment of intense inspiration or exhalation – is not only the theme of this project, which focuses on the relationship between the moving image, which is by definition evanescent, and physical presence as a space or set or model “ready to be filmed”, but also the name given to the project, which itself is divided into three acts, starting with a precise and meticulous survey of a cult scene in sequence shot taken from examples in the history of cinema, followed by a second act in which the students are led to create a first image through a model and a set made beforehand, and finally an epilogue which consists of making a video using simple tools such as a telephone, a cardboard box, or even a smoke machine, which alone suggest the possibility of a waking dream, captured in the moving image which is nothing more than a…