Temps mort
Boredom sneaks in everywhere. In work offices, in museums, in the middle of traffic jams, in hotel lobbies, in classrooms and of course in my own bedroom. It’s wild, and through it imagination can thrive. Nonetheless, I do everything to avoid it, and dead zones are considered as threats to the greater good and the progress of mankind. To explore this uncharted territory, I collected the words of children, adults, friends and strangers. _Temps mort_ is a closed-eyes wander through the maze of idleness. Could we ever learn how to properly get bored?
| Director | Guisane Humeau |
| Actor | Jenny Cartwright |
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When it comes to audio documentary, I often say that one of my favorite aspects of this storytelling form is how it teaches—or rather reteaches, since it's so easily forgotten—the art of slowness. It invites us to turn off our screens, to dream up our own images rather than absorbing those of others.
With Temps mort, Guisane Humeau turns her microphone toward boredom—during incarceration, illness, or those childhood moments when adults decide for us. It captures the boredom that creeps in on a Friday night in a city where you know no one, or those times when we instinctively reach for our phones to fill the void of a moment that seems to drag… even as we paradoxically claim we never have enough time.
"As a child, I thought that when I got really bored, I lived longer. I still think so." we hear in the opening minutes.
Through a sonic drift that blurs the line between documentary and fiction, Temps mort invites us to embrace the space of possibility that idleness brings—and to reclaim time from the grip of neoliberalism and Big Tech, which relentlessly push us to make every moment productive.
Best enjoyed with headphones—while doing nothing else, of course.
Jenny Cartwright
Documentarian and audio artist
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Français
43 mn
Language: Français
- Année 2021
- Pays France
- Durée 43
- Producteur La Disquette
- Langue French
- Résumé court As a child, I thought that when I got really bored, I lived longer. The logic of a world without a watch, with my body as a time compass.
- Ordre 4
When it comes to audio documentary, I often say that one of my favorite aspects of this storytelling form is how it teaches—or rather reteaches, since it's so easily forgotten—the art of slowness. It invites us to turn off our screens, to dream up our own images rather than absorbing those of others.
With Temps mort, Guisane Humeau turns her microphone toward boredom—during incarceration, illness, or those childhood moments when adults decide for us. It captures the boredom that creeps in on a Friday night in a city where you know no one, or those times when we instinctively reach for our phones to fill the void of a moment that seems to drag… even as we paradoxically claim we never have enough time.
"As a child, I thought that when I got really bored, I lived longer. I still think so." we hear in the opening minutes.
Through a sonic drift that blurs the line between documentary and fiction, Temps mort invites us to embrace the space of possibility that idleness brings—and to reclaim time from the grip of neoliberalism and Big Tech, which relentlessly push us to make every moment productive.
Best enjoyed with headphones—while doing nothing else, of course.
Jenny Cartwright
Documentarian and audio artist
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Français
Duration: 43 minutesLanguage: Français43 mn
- Année 2021
- Pays France
- Durée 43
- Producteur La Disquette
- Langue French
- Résumé court As a child, I thought that when I got really bored, I lived longer. The logic of a world without a watch, with my body as a time compass.
- Ordre 4
