A 36-minute phone call with Delphine Seyrig that will haunt your answering machine.
Two worlds are involved. The internal world, closed, virtually isolated, with just one tenuous, uncertain link with the other world - the telephone. The other, external world exists only to pass from one sealed-off place to another. Call each other? - you lose your voice before you get an answer: your head spins with non-existent voices. Telephone and answering machines are scheming devices. Just waiting in vain.
Acting
Seyrig's voice carries entire emotional geography.
Direction
Delvaux turns domestic space into psychological trap.
Sound
Answering machines as antagonists, static as score.
Director
Claudine Delvaux
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of 1980s French feminist experimental cinema exploring domestic space as contested territory, alongside works by Chantal Akerman.
Delphine Seyrig recorded her entire performance in a single afternoon session, never meeting her co-star who was added in post-production.
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