Charlotte Pouyaud
Partners in Crime - Film - 17min - 2023
présenté dans le cadre de l'exposition Panorama 25
Film
Partners in Crime was inspired by a case that happened in my town more than twenty years ago, when the hippopotamus in the town's zoo ---the director's favourite animal ---killed him out of jealousy for a tractor he had just bought. This extraordinary tragedy prompted me to scratch beneath the surface of the anecdote to discover its mythological potential : what if the story of this hippopotamus could be related to the biblical stories, what if it was a modern-day figure of Leviathan or Behemoth? In this CGI film, the hippopotamus evolves in a world of darkness and mist, and tells us about the tragedy of its life.
Charlotte Pouyaud
Born in Massy in 1995, Charlotte Pouyaud lives and works in Bordeaux. Holder of a degree in philosophy, she makes fiction films in which she stages certain news items, historical events or current affairs, using the potential of drama to unpack them, most often in a tragicomic register.
