Charlotte Bayer-Broc
Les Têtes de Mort d'Arkana - Film - 28min - 2017
presented as part of the exhibition panorama 19
Film
In a world of total war, where human beings now only exist in the form of a trace, a devastated shaman, broken opera singer and a killer, all of them women, desperately wait for the return of Arkana, a prisoner of the Faceless Regime.
Confronted by the brutality, chaos and suffering, and the suicidal unrest of the entire planet, they’ve taken refuge in a distant forest. This forest is that found in a series of paintings by Botticelli, The Story of Natagio Degli Onesti. It is the stage for an eternal hunt in which the figure of the woman chased, ripped open, torn, clashes with the fragile community formed by the four women. They then invent rituals, gestures and curses together in order to escape the threat hanging over them. They become witches, imagine themselves cyborgs. They are mutant creatures whose hands become green and whose skin turns to plastic.
They recite magic spells and create a language for themselves in order to push away the masks covering their faces. Les Têtes de Mort d'Arkana is a command to no longer be buried within ourselves, to tear ourselves away from the world of the living in order to make grieving a revolutionary practice, an insurrectional stance.
Charlotte Bayer-Broc
Charlotte Bayer-Broc has developed a sensitive, political and critical thought watching movies. For her cinema is about incarnation and duration. She always were interested by filming gestures, faces, word – bodies loked in an inextricable reality by the frame. After theorical studies about cinema and literature, she get into the fine art school of Paris in 2011. Her work tries to reveal a hidden violence, to form new kind of narrations with lost events, mixing collectives and intimates stories. In 2014, she did her first movie, Mundos Inmundos, witch was selected by FID Marseille 2015. The movie is about a punk band roaming in depopulated and spectral landscapes in Chile like sleepwalkers. Nowadays, Charlotte is studying in Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains, and she is still exploring Chile minor history. Her new film, Los diablos azules, is a musical tragedy about a massacre of 3600 workers during a strike in the north of Chile.
