Shorts Program 2: Voyager (travelling)

An array of Creton’s short films feature snapshots of nature, faith, literature, and humanity.

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Détour, suivi de Jovan From Foula (2005)
Dir. Pierre Creton
30min
In French with English subtitles

“Driving along the only road, Jovan pointed out to Vincent the island’s disarray: abandoned cars and tractors, heaps of rusting scrap metal. Then on another island, Papa Stour, with a view of Foula, we filmed what was to become the first part of the film.”—Pierre Creton

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L’Arc D’Iris, Souvenir D’Un Jardin (2006)
Dirs. Pierre Creton, Vincent Barré
30min
In French with English subtitles

Depicted here is three weeks of hiking in one of the highest-altitude places on earth: the Spirit Valley in the Himalayas. Two sequences of flowers, picked like in a herbarium, emphasized by the voice of villages and the chants of monasteries.

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Le voyage à vézelay (2005)
Dir. Pierre Creton
30min
In French with English subtitles

After the death of his father, Pierre and his friends Marie and Bénaïd travel to Vézelay to Georges Bataille’s tomb. There, they get in touch with a priest, who distinguishes tourists from mystics, those who come for God and those who come for the writer.

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Petit traité de la marche en plaine (2014)
Dir. Pierre Creton
26min
In French with English subtitles

Inspired by the work of Gustave Roud, this film depicts a walker travelling through landscapes, looking closely at the tiny and changing forms of nature, and meeting living beings—animals and people.