LA QUÊTE D'INSPIRATION - Mathieu Le Lay

LA QUÊTE D’INSPIRATION

Synopsis

After many solitary wanderings through autumn forests, landscape photographer Alexandre Deschaumes has developed his own world. Guided by the haunting, dreamlike atmospheres of the wilderness, he attempts to transform his emotions into some form of evocative beauty. As he prepares for a new expedition to Patagonia, Alexandre must confront the torments of nature in his quest for the ethereal image.

Year :

2012

PRODUCTION :

Mona Lisa Production, Mathieu Le Lay Productions & Montagne TV

team :

With Alexandre Deschaumes
Direction : Mathieu Le Lay
Image : Mathieu Le Lay, Alexandre Deschaumes
Aerial footage : Yoann Périé
Editing : Mathieu Le Lay
Music : Raison d’être, The Best Pessimist, Ratel Road, Biosphere, Sephiroth

Duration :

52 minutes

Diffusers :

Montagne TV
Ushuaïa TV
TV5 Monde
Canal Off

Official selections :

‣ Video Festival Imperia 2013, Italy
‣ Pelicam International Film festival 2013, Romania
‣ 44th Diablerets International Alpine Film Festival, Switzerland
‣ 29th Ménigoute International Ornithological Film Festival, France
‣ Green Screen International Wildlife Film Festival 2013, Germany
‣ 30th Autrans International Mountain Film Festival, France
‣ 31st Festival de Cinema de Muntanya de Torelló, Spain
‣ 40th International Ekofilm Festival, Czech Republic
‣ Internationales Berg & Abenteuer Filmfestival Graz 2014, Austria
‣ 12th Bansko International Mountain Film Festival 2014, Bulgaria
‣ 7th Bilbao Mendi Film Festival, Spain
‣ 2nd Regards d’Altitude Mountain Film Festival, France
‣ 11th Partances Festival, France
‣ Festival Objectif Aventure 2015, France
‣ Festival Internacional de Cine de Montaña Ushuaia Shh 2015, Argentina
‣ Inkafest Mountain Film Festival 2015, Peru
‣ Matsalu Nature Film Festival 2015, Estonia
‣ Medzinárodný Festival Horských Filmov Poprad 2015, Slovakia
‣ 13 Internationales Bergfilm Festival Tegernsee, Germany
‣ Dutch Mountain Film Festival 2016, Netherlands
‣ Wasatch Mountain Film Festival 2016, United States
‣ Pakistan International Mountain Film Festival 2016, Pakistan
‣ 10th PICURT Mostra de Cinema de Muntanya dels Pirineus, Spain
‣ 15th Grand Bivouac d’Albertville, France
‣ T-Film International Film Festival Ostrava 2016, Czech Republic
‣ 18th Festival de la Photo Animalière et de Nature de Montier-en-Der, France
‣ 26th Festival des Globe-Trotters – Aventure du Bout du Monde, France
‣ Festival Ciné-Nature de Callac 2014, France
‣ Mouans-Sartoux Photo Festival 2014, France
‣ Festival Image Montagne de Pau 2014, France
‣ Hauteville Nature Festival 2014, France
‣ 18th Festival Escales Voyageuses d’Avignon, France
‣ Drone Photo & Film Festival 2016, Belgium
‣ 3rd Bucharest PhotoFest, Romania
‣ 7th Salon de la Photographie de Nature de Barr, France
‣ Rendez-vous du carnet de voyage 2016, France
‣ Festival Vysoké Hory Žilina 2016, Slovakia
‣ Festival Curieux voyageurs 2017, France

Awards :

‣ Silver Award – Video Festival Imperia 2013, Italy
‣ Best Photography – 44th Diablerets International Alpine Film Festival 2013, Switzerland
‣ Prix Jeunes Regards – Ménigoute International Ornithological Film Festival 2013, France
‣ Best Photography – 7th Bilbao Mendi Film Festival 2014, Spain
‣ Beauty of Nature Award – Medzinárodný Festival Horských Filmov Poprad 2015, Slovakia
‣ Best Young Director – 13th Internationales Bergfilm Festival Tegernsee 2015, Germany
‣ Best Mountain and Nature Film – 13th Internationales Bergfilm Festival Tegernsee 2015, Germany
‣ Special Jury Prize – T-Film International Film Festival Ostrava 2016, Czech Republic

"The film begins in autumn and ends in winter. From golden flames to the vertigo of white. Spring and summer are not Alexandre Deschaumes' favourite seasons. Too mawkish, too obvious. It's hard to track down beauty. It's beauty that drives this young photographer to the craggy peaks, the gutters of waterfalls and the fringes of glaciers, to seek out the most extreme nature to translate his inner world into images: a lonely world, grandiose and often disturbing, spectral or incandescent, where phantasmagoria reigns. Mathieu Le Lay followed the artist on his travels: Patagonia, Iceland, Argentina... Just as enamoured of light as his subject, editing his images as if creating a rhythm, the director captured the breathtaking landscapes of a wild and regal nature. There is no commentary, apart from the voice-over of the photographer, who, in bits and pieces, tells us about the vital need to frame the most remote places as if we were inventing our own language. Without pretension or grandiloquence, he evokes fear and fascination as the fuel of an art that sometimes imprisons him, sometimes elevates him. You don't necessarily have to share his aesthetic to be caught up in his quest."

MONA LISA PRODUCTION, MATHIEU LE LAY PRODUCTIONS, MONTAGNE TV present
a film by MATHIEU LE LAY produced by THIERRY BERROD with the participation of USHUAIA TV with the support of the CNC, CANON FRANCE, OPTIQUE SERGENT, PHOTO ADDICT
in collaboration with ALEXANDRE DESCHAUMES PHOTOGRAPHIES
written, directed & edited by MATHIEU LE LAY cinematography by MATHIEU LE LAY, ALEXANDRE DESCHAUMES photography by ALEXANDRE DESCHAUMES
music by BIOSPHERE, RAISON D’ÊTRE, SEPHIROTH, THE BEST PESSIMIST, MAELSTROM mixing by MIROSLAV PILON colour-grading by ANNE-SOPHIE DE BRAUER
with ALEXANDRE DESCHAUMES narration by ALEXANDRE DESCHAUMES