Mathilde Hess
Panthère - Film - 2010
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 12
Film
A woman wearing a coat of fake panther fur lives in a caravan. The windows of the caravan look onto a landscape of mountains and forests. The woman is making a model with geometric architecture, like a construction game. At the end of this model there is a forest. In this forest, military hunters think they can see a panther and take aim. And it is the woman who is working on the maquette who is shot. But she doesn't die, she is resting. In the forest, the hunters fire again; this time, the woman in the caravan is wounded. She comes out and walks towards to forest to hide. The hunters fire. The woman dies tragically in the forest. The hunters walk in front of the caravan. A film is on the television; it is the end of the film, the panther woman dies in the forest, tragically. M.H.
