Phoenix Atala
"Critical Failure"
"Scene
0 directors’ intro"
HD video, color, sound.
3:27
min.
"Scenes 2 et 10 Ekko’s intro"
HD
video, color, sound.
1:43 min.
"Scenes 24 &
28 experimental shoot and rehearsal"
HD video, color,
sound.
3:59 min.
"Scene 18 the directors meet
Tanger"
HD video, color, sound.
3:37 min.
Critical
Failure is at once an anticipation film, an unfinished scenario on
the representation of queer racialized communities, an editing
process, an attempt to invent a new method of making cinema, a series
of ethical, aesthetic and practical questions, a sum of obstacles and
revelations, a narrative that describes the sensation of discovering
oneself different and that this discovery is liberating.
Initially
a Sci-Fi film, it has fermented, multiplied, developed, expanded like
water kefir. It is now a film-conversation, a film-pretext for a
multi-generational discussion about our image autonomy, as a queer
racialized community; a pretext for the possibility of gathering, to
talk, to organize; a pretext for thinking about how we storytell
ourselves, why we storytell ourselves and to whom we storytell
ourselves.
Critical Failure is a symphony, a choral
project, in which each member is attuned, not to the tuning fork of a
skillset but to the one of similar situation, forming a disharmony of
talents and a harmony of concerns.
