Les Impatients
Alexandre Humbert investigates in his short film Les Impatients the life and emptiness experienced during the quarantine of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. It closed to the public on March 15, like many other institutions around the world due to the quarantine following the health emergency of covid-19, a period during which “it was interesting to look at how museums have revolutionized the methodology of communication, to give online visitors the opportunity to stay in touch with the works on display.”
Year
2020
Type
Short film
Role
- Scriptwriter
- Director
Duration
9min30s
Language
French
Production
Studio AH
Collaboration
Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
Three months after the closure of the museum, the viewer is led, through slow images, into the rooms where the objects become the real protagonists of the space, which can only exist “if contemplated”. The filming is accompanied by the narration of the new everyday life of Gino, Florence and Olivier, museum employees, with this common feeling of impatience, which we all experienced in our own way.
It was necessary for me to go beyond the surface of a screen, behind walls of empty cities and see how objects and people still being inside closed museums behave and not how they look from the outside.
With
- Olivier Gabet
- Gino Anoumantou
- Florence Bertin
Original Music Composition
Arnaud Pujol
