Official Competition 2018

Carry On

Mieriën Coppens I 2017 I 12'

SYNOPSIS

Individuals wait, silence is heard, a microscopic attention trough a tired mass. If the film is almost mute, it is because it focuses on silent figures, although their struggle is deafening.

BIOGRAPHY

Mieriën Coppens

MIERIËN COPPENS (Belgium, 1992) studied film at the Luca School of Arts in Belgium, from which Carry On emerged as one of his final works. Both in this short film and in his subsequent work, Right, Left, Right, Left (2018), Coppens looks at migrants who come to Europe in search of a better life.

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Critical text

There is no sound, and therefore the ear can not conceive a shot reverse shot that reveals where this collection of close-ups looks, an inspiring silent portrait of a whole collective that makes us observers of those who observe, those who wait. Suddenly tiredness, a smile or looking at the infinite become superlatives, gestures that give sense in themselves to another gesture, that of filming, catching a face. There is no sound and no general shot, so there is no context, only those faces. And although a text puts an end point that forces you to rethink everything, nothing is revealed. Because the beautiful cinema of Mieriën Coppens is concerned to display its great political gesture: to offer a space to those who do not have it, a space materialized in looks that no longer seem so different from each other. In other words, stop talking about minorities and meet specific faces. Stop putting words in the abstract to start putting images. JONAY ARMAS

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