« A strange shop window inhabited by a girl who shatters its glass, breaks free, and then suffocates. ». — Patrick Hella
After studying film, Patrick Hella began working as an assistant director on short films before directing experimental shorts: Les Sables (1965), Ole Coltrane (1966), Les Caméléons (1967) — which was selected for the EXPRMTL festival in Knokke — La Tête froide (1969), Légendes et Châteaux (1971), and La Fille dans la vitrine (1974). In the 1990s, he turned toward documentary filmmaking without abandoning his style or the themes dear to him.
In the 1980s, he became a casting director and set up an agency in Belgium for film, theatre and television.
La Tête froide (The cool head), made a strong impression when it was presented at the Cannes Film Festival, enabling Hella to secure a production resources to make the double documentary on witches, ‘Légendes et Châteaux’ (Legends and Castles) (1971). He then returned to the experimental genre with The Girl in the Shop Window, a project representative of the innovative cinematic movement he belonged to during those years but also to the themes explored throughout his career. This story of impossible escape – the girl in the window being condemned to be displayed amid indifference or to die – brings together the same Sadian themes: the enclosed space, the humiliated and distorted body, the counter-society and transmutation.
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42,00 € |
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42,00 € |
