INCIDENT URBAIN - TRAILER 2012 - LALOR - STEVENIN - LABARTHE

INCIDENT URBAIN
TRAILER 1MIN 7 SECONDS

A short film by John Lalor
Featuring - Jean-François Stévenin and André S. Labarthe
Director of Photography : Eric Gautier AFC

SYNOPSIS
Early one morning, a magnificent eagle emmerges slowly from a forest, strangely moon like in appearance. The proud winged creature soars upwards, discovering on the way the architectural structure that is the Bibliotheque Nationale Française. At the same
moment, two men emmerge as if from the building's underbelly, on a moving escalator. Resembling two film noir figures from the avant garde of the sixties. Incarnating true outsiders. Their friendship bound by some mysterious past. Both have code names : Costello and the Colonel. Strolling around the esplanade of the BNF, they engage in an intense conversation, commenting on the architectural landscape surrounding them. A singular form of urban psychogeography of which behind lies an imminent illicite act. Crossing over the esplanade made up of long avenues outlining superlative perspectives surrounding the four glass towers of the BNF, Costello and the Colonel bring to life two characters from the past, caught up in a post modernist landscape. Their solitude creating a tension as they slowly become aware that they are under some sort of invisible surveillance. Was the encounter orchestrated from the beginning, underlining a fatal trap. Costello and the Colonel, like two pawns on a chessboard, are in fact caught up in a deadly game beyond their control of which the final dramatic conclusion in this so called theatre of shadows, leaves only the grey sky, suggesting that the encounter and its eventual violent conclusion could only be deemed as an urban incident.

Country : France
Year : 2012
Length : 26'
Genre : Fiction
Information : Color/Dcp - 35mm

Cast : Jean-François Stévenin et André S. Labarthe

Film : 35mm, colour, sound, 26 minutes
Writer and Director : John Lalor
Actors : André S Labarthe and Jean-François Stévenin
Director of Photography : Eric Gautier AFC
Editor : Guy Lecorne
Sound Design : Nicolas Becker
Music : Chris White
Script advisor : Mathias Sanderson
Assistant Director : Jean-Michel Donohue
Production : John Lalor, Corinne Castel and Mobiles
Funded by the Irish Arts Council