Before The Light Shut Down
TITLE
Before The Light Shut Down
DIRECTOR
Wilmarc Val
COUNTRY
France
YEAR
2021
DURATION
19′
GENRE
Fiction
Before The Light Shut Down
Claude is an old fairground man, hanging on to his merry-go-round which represents the best years of his life. Over the time, the people around him and different parts of its attraction disappears. One summer evening, a little girl, Emma, comes to ask Claude for rides. Emma is not allowed to go out during the day, because of a genetic diseas, that makes impossible for her to live in the sunlight.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Wilmarc Val
Wilmarc Val was born in Dessalines, a town in Haiti. He arrived in France at the age of 4 and grew up in Seine Saint-Denis. Since childhood, he has had a passion for astronomy, then for cinema, a love with which he renewed at the end of his studies in journalism. He made several school films during his studies in the Faculty of Cinema. Since then he continues to explore his favorite themes: time, origins and the invisible. He directed a short film entitled “Avant que les lumières s’éteignent” (Before the lights shut down) in which Raphaël Thiery plays an old showman stuck between his merry-go-round and his memories. At the same time he completed his short documentary film “Brave”, pre-purchased by France 3, echoing his family history and vodou.
- Director Wilmarc Val
- Screenplay Wilmarc Val
- Cinematography Paul Morin
- Editing Adrien Privat
- Cast Raphaël Thiery, Léna Repetto, Bernard Pinet, Rebecca Pauly
- Producer/s Nicolaï Iarochenko
- Production Company Les Steppes Productions, Noise Gate Circus
- Distributor/s Les Steppes Productions
- Project Title Before The Light Shut Down
- Project Type Fiction
- Completion Date January, 2021
- Country of origin France
- Country of filming France
- Language French
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student Project No
Wilmarc Val
Wilmarc Val was born in Dessalines, a town in Haiti. He arrived in France at the age of 4 and grew up in Seine Saint-Denis. Since childhood, he has had a passion for astronomy, then for cinema, a love with which he renewed at the end of his studies in journalism. He made several school films during his studies in the Faculty of Cinema. Since then he continues to explore his favorite themes: time, origins and the invisible. He directed a short film entitled “Avant que les lumières s’éteignent” (Before the lights shut down) in which Raphaël Thiery plays an old showman stuck between his merry-go-round and his memories. At the same time he completed his short documentary film “Brave”, pre-purchased by France 3, echoing his family history and vodou.
Tirana International Film Festival
GENERATIONs, Panorama Competition, 2022
