CHRISTELLE JORNOD

Les montagnes tombent

English title: Mountains are falling down
Year: 2021
Length: 00:54:25
Categories: Film / TV / Video, experimental film, documentary 

How do we understand the changes we observe in a territory, and how do we describe how we feel about them? Taking the Swiss Alps as a field of experimentation, Les montagnes tombent (2021) explores our relationship to landscape through the prism of its representation. The Alps are rooted in a long visual tradition which, from Romanticism to the present day, has made them a place of desire and projections. If the ideal of a pristine nature remains in the collective imagination, looking at images of today's Alps forces a penetrating observation of what we call the Anthropocene: unbridled tourism, hydro-electric industry, melting glaciers. A mastered nature, an omnipresent human infrastructure. Through a pictures reading, the protagonists of the film propose a critical but sensitive approach, in which the notions of identity, home and memories are intertwined to some inevitable sense of loss.

A film by Christelle Jornod
With the participation of:
Tania Darbellay, Christophe Dumoulin, Bertrand Deslarzes, Claudine Chevrier, Claude Bernhard, Pierre Huguenin
Camera and Montage: Christelle Jornod
Sound: Léo Beaudoin, Victoria Herzog, Christelle Jornod, Francisco Legrand
Second camera: Victoria Herzog
Set-runners: Romain Cerutti, Dylan Jornod, Lea Pontieri
Sound mix: Ralf Schipke
Color grading: Ewald Hentze
Title Design: Léo Beaudoin
DCP: Ewald Hentze
Production: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln and Christelle Jornod