Bare Handed

Original Title: à Mains Nues

Dance | 26' | 2006 (Completed)

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Director:	Thierry Knauff
Producer:	Jan De Clercq
Writer:	Thierry Knauff

Full credits

Bare Handed is a cinematographic and choreographic poem. Freely inspired by Joseph Noiret's text and his daugthter Michèle's choreography, Bare-Handed is a film of uncommon beauty. In it, a woman's progress in the world unfolds step by step. Solitary bearer of multiple imaginings, she dances her worlds of memories, sensations, discoveries and rekindled emotions.

synopsis

Bare Handed is a cinematographic and choreographic poem. Freely inspired by Joseph Noiret's text and his daugthter Michèle's choreography, Bare-Handed is a film of uncommon beauty. In it, a woman's progress in the world unfolds step by step. Solitary bearer of multiple imaginings, she dances her worlds of memories, sensations, discoveries and rekindled emotions. With light and shadow as her partners, she approaches the world created by her dance, confronts and captures it. She immerses herself in this world and eventually loses herself in it. n this way the rhythm of dance joins the pleasure of pure cinema in fluid, dream-like harmony. Bare-Handed is an original work, created for the screen, not the documentation of a performance. This film features also the choreographer's father, the poet Joseph Noiret, co-founder of the famous artists' group Cobra.
Bare Handed est un poème cinématographique et chorégraphique. Librement inspiré du texte de Joseph Noiret et de la chorégraphie de sa fille Michèle, Bare-Handed est un film d'une beauté hors du commun. Dans le film, la progression d'une femme dans le monde se dévoile étape par étape. Porteuse solitaire de multiples imaginants, elle danse ses mondes de souvenirs, de sensations, de découvertes et d'émotions réanimées. Avec des ombres et des lumières, tout comme ses partenaires, elle s'approche du monde créé par ses danses, le confronte et s'en saisit. Elle se plonge dans ce monde, et finalement se perd dans celui-ci. De cette façon, le rythme de la danse se joint au plaisir du cinéma pur dans une harmonie fluide et onirique. Bare-Handed est un travail original créé pour l'écran, et non la documentation d'une interprétation. Le film représente aussi le père de la chorégraphe, le poète Joseph Noiret, co-fondateur du célèbre groupe d'artistes Cobra.

Credits

Director
Thierry Knauff
Producer
Jan De Clercq
Writer
Thierry Knauff
Cast
Michèle Noiret
Editing
Thierry Knauff
Photography
Antoine-Marie Meert
Music
Thierry Knauff

Format

Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Fiction
Production share
Minority Flemish co-production
Belgium
Genre
Dance
Year of production

2006
Production status
Completed
Original title
à Mains Nues

Technical specs

Running time
26'
Aspect ratio
16:9
Sound format
5.1 (+sub)
Available formats
35mm
Colour
Black-white

Contact & sales

Contact

Les Films du Sablier

Chemin de la Warte 11
7181 Feluy
Belgium

T +32 67 48 55 95
sablier@skynet.be

Details
Sales

Films du Sablier

Chemine de la Warte 11
Belgium

www.filmsdusablier.com

Festivals & awards

Festivals

No festival information available.

Awards

2008: Best Fiction Film Award (Mumbai International Film Festival )

Partners

Supported by

a coproduction of LES FILMS DU SABLIER / HEURE D'ÉTÉ PRODUCTIONS / RTBF / SVT / LES FILMS DU NORD / LUMIÈRE PRODUCTIE with the help of the Film and Audiovisual Center of the French Community of Belgium and the Walloon television distributors, the Flemish Audiovisual Fund, the Promimage Fund of the Walloon Region, the CNC digital technology and special effects dept, the CNC short film center, the CRRAV, the Hainaut Cinema Center and the Interreg IIIa Program of the European Union.