Zine Andrieu
Les Origines du Monstre - Film - 25min - 2025
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 27
Film
In autumn 2005, a mother tries to comfort her young son, distressed by his old brother’s temporary absence. Torn between the silence of the adults and the growing presence of his imaginings, the child tries to understand this enigmatic departure while confronting the shadows it leaves behind.
This film is rooted in a deep need to break the silence, to revisit a foundational flaw in my personal history. This emptiness, this troubling absence, was the starting point for this project. As a child, my brother’s story was given to me in only partial, altered form. Over time, the outlines became clearer, enriched by the stories of those who, driven by a need for truth, passed on to me more accurate fragments of his life.
I felt the need to bring these scattered pieces together, to reconcile personal and collective memory, through a film that melds childhood memories – sometimes blurred, tinged with wonder – and more documentary material, staged with a fictional approach. This dialogue between the imaginary and the real becomes a way of piecing together an emotional and historical puzzle, of bringing to the surface the images that I have missed so much.
For many years I kept this project to myself, out of modesty and fear of rekindling certain wounds. But this film also represents an opening, an attempt to confront the views within my own family, a way of giving voice and flesh to what the taboo had frozen.
At the heart of the film is a fable, one that the child I was once believed. A story shaped by a mother’s love, by her silent efforts to protect her children from the fate that befalls every working-class neighbourhood. This act of fiction becomes an act of transmission.
The narrative unfolds in places steeped in memory: the family home, the scene of our joys and fractures, witness to the transformation of my parents, but also to police intrusions and the withdrawal of institutions. It is here, between past and present, that the heart of the film is played out.
Zine Andrieu
Zine Andrieu grew up in a succession of working-class neighbourhoods in France. A series of serendipitous encounters and ruptures led him into a world he knew nothing about: contemporary art. And so, in 2017, he moved to Bordeaux to enrol at the Beaux-Arts, from which he graduated with a DNSEP in 2022. Since then, his work has explored cultural clashes and the tensions between popular heritage and artistic legitimacy. It soon occurred to him that representing the realities of working-class neighbourhoods within a field that is often codified and elitist could be both a lever for emancipation and a path strewn with pitfalls, so strongly latent is the risk of compromising oneself. He therefore chose to produce hybrid forms – installations, performances, videos and sound pieces – that speak of intimate and collective experiences, aspirations and fragments of everyday life. By constantly questioning his own modesty and that of his community, he manages to avoid exposing his bare words to an often distant outside gaze. His deeply layered works function like spaces to be deciphered, in which multiple languages coexist: references to manga, video games, social networks, religion, but also to the myths, stories and beliefs that circulate in the neighbourhoods. Cinema, in all its formal diversity, has become a focal point for his work: it embodies both narrative power and a shared imaginary space, capable of speaking to a wide audience without denying the complexity of the stories. Moving closer to the cinema was an essential step in his effort to combine popular appeal with artistic rigour.
Production
Partners
Credits
› Scénario : Rose Andrieu, Zine Andrieu
› Interprétation : Achile Tizon, Ali Jerboui, Anthony Lopes, Kenza Bruno, Nagim Jaaouan, Nassim Quournif, Rose Andrieu, Sofiane Aït Said, Sofiane Talaouada, Soufiane Jerboui, Wafa Lazhari, Zine Andrieu
› Directeur de la photographie : Assistante Réalisation, Aurora Lovecchio, Maxime Berger
› Assistant caméra : Yanis Frichou
› Chargée de production, chargé(e) de production : Barbara Merlier
› Régisseuse générale : Rozenn Laliat
› Régisseuse : Annie Borie
› Coach enfant : Lise Tizon
› Cheffe électricité : Alice Brunnquell
› Électricien : Marius Hellot
› Électricienne : Lucy Guerineau
› Ingénieur son : Paul Thauvin
› Perchman : Pablo Alonso
› Chef machiniste : Tim Fraux
› Machiniste : Tom Gardies
› Costumière : Louise Combeau
› Montage image : Camille Coutouly, Zine Andrieu
› Montage son, mixage son : Martin Delzescaux
› Montage des directs : Maxime Gallet
› Assistante montage son : Jade Primel
› Acteur bruiteur : Benjamin Poilane
› 3d vfx : Lazare Aibot
› Dessinatrice : Jade Jouvin
› Étalonnage : Baptiste Évrard
› Consultant général, accompagnement artistique : Ali Cherri
› Consultant écriture : Jean-Claude Taki
› Consultante montage : Isabelle Ingold
› Projections test : Ali Cherri, Chriss Itoua, François Bonenfant, Hania Benrahou, Jade Jouvin, Nicolas Pirus, Randa Maroufi
› Responsable distribution : Natalia Trebik
› Prêt d'œuvres : James Dosa, Ndayé Kouagou
› Une production, matériel, auditorium : Le Fresnoy - Studio National
› Directeur : Alain Fleischer
› Coordinateur cinéma, arts visuels : François Bonenfant
› Directeur des productions : Luc-Jérôme Bailleul
› Administratrice : Stéphanie Robin
› Directeur technique : Pascal Buteaux
› Pôle prises de vues : Aurélie Brouet, Ludivine Sibelle, Théo Coeugniet
› Pôle son : Antoine Sugita, Blandine Tourneux
› Pôle post-production : Alexandre Peschmann, Thibaut William
› Référents vfx, synthèse : Paul Guilbert
› Référent costume : Cyprien Quairiat
