Jacques Brissot

The term caustic designates optically the envelope of light rays undergoing reflection or refraction on a curved and shiny surface.

Conceived, drawn and animated live by a team of patients from a psychiatric clinic, this achievement presents, in the eyes of its author, less interest on a purely cinematographic level than on that of human experience. It is the disturbing wordless story of a woman and a man living in a strange setting where objects are endowed with life that they have chosen to tell us through this theater of shadow puppets in cut out figurines. Their characters will know a tragic fate since carried in the air by balloons, they will finally be devoured by a horrible dragon.

The film is an apology of movement, made here by a short editing pushed to the extreme.

Purged from its details, the image thus obtained offers a vision of this sculpture reduced to moving lights.

This short documentary film is conceived as a stroll through the valley of Thebes and the temple of Karnak.

Organic forms are beating and resorbing, reflections dance to the rhythm of Henk BADINGS 'music, circles of light flash like disturbing eyes, perpetual metamorphoses evoke a great living and throbbing organism.