Gerda 85

Synopsis

It’s the story of a young girl in a state of rupture, somewhere in the countryside, in a kingdom.

It’s summer. She has to study for her exams. Gerda finds herself back at her uncle and aunt's house. She has not seen them for years, since her mother died.

It’s 1985. There is a tape in the cassette deck, a flanger on the bass, and the rhythm box is heavy with reverb.

It’s a crisis. Gerda has to make some choices, choices which must lead her to see other horizons.

Around her, convulsions: a time is ending.

Technical data

Gerda 85 : Belgique, 2007, color, 68’

Directors : Patricia Gélise et Nicolas Deschuyteneer

Images : Rachel Simoni, Sébastien Koeppel et Dominik Guth

Sound Engineer : Denis Rollet

Cast : Rachel Sassi, Lou Castel, Nathalie Rjewsky, Luc Fonteyn, Christophe Piette, Véronique Dumont et Yves de Falleur

Music : Satin Wall, Snowy Red, The Cultural Decay, Bene Gesserit, Carol, Isolation Ward, Polyphonic Size

Language : french

Sub-titles : english

Shot in eleven days in the countryside of Southern Belgium, Gerda 85 is the first feature-length movie made by Patricia Gélise and Nicolas Deschuyteneer.

Inspired by their own lives, they draw a portrait of a young girl in the mid-1980s.

This low-budget and self-produced movie travels though Gerda's interior life in the particular context of those somewhat troubled times.

The film is part of that branch of independent film which is working to discover a free form made from ruptures and experiments

Saturated with the music of its time – New Wave from the beginning of the 80s - the movie is also a portrait of fractured youth, trying to make sense of a life crossed by a history of disillusionment.

Despite this the film is completely open, leaving its heroine a possible future.

Contact

Brute Production : rue Alfred Giron 25, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgique
00 32 473 82 42 99
gerda85 [a] no-log . org

Pbc Pictures : rue des Plantes 66a, 1210 Bruxelles
00 32 2 223 34 59
Fax: 00 32 2 223 16 12
pbcpictures [a] skynet . be
www.pbcpictures.com

Links

Gerda 85 :	Belgique, 2007, color, 68’
Directors :	Patricia Gélise et Nicolas Deschuyteneer
Images :	Rachel Simoni, Sébastien Koeppel et Dominik Guth
Sound Engineer :	Denis Rollet
Cast :	Rachel Sassi, Lou Castel, Nathalie Rjewsky, Luc Fonteyn, Christophe Piette, Véronique Dumont et Yves de Falleur
Music :	Satin Wall, Snowy Red, The Cultural Decay, Bene Gesserit, Carol, Isolation Ward, Polyphonic Size
Language :	french
Sub-titles :	english

Brute Production :	rue Alfred Giron 25, 1050 Bruxelles, Belgique 00 32 473 82 42 99 gerda85 [a] no-log . org
Pbc Pictures :	rue des Plantes 66a, 1210 Bruxelles 00 32 2 223 34 59 Fax: 00 32 2 223 16 12 pbcpictures [a] skynet . be www.pbcpictures.com