2024 | France | Documentary

Suspension (2024)

  • French - 11 mins
  • Director | Claire Doyon
  • Writer | Claire Doyon
  • Producer | Claire Doyon

STATUS: In Distribution

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Three years after Penelope my love (FID2021), Claire Doyon gives news of her daughter, a young autistic mute adult. She does so by way of a letter addressed to other parents, responsible for a place of life where Penelope, ultimately, will not live. The letter formulates the reason for this decision: a disagreement on the mode of reception, that is to say the creation of a common for beings who are prevented from expressing their desire by the deprivation of speech. In a reflex learned from Deligny, Claire Doyon questions the good ethical conscience to reveal its normative unthought and to turn the questions around: What is a free gesture? What conditions the slightest gesture? What do we lack, to be up to Penelope's gestures and joy? While on the screen, printed over the days on the 8mm film, these gestures and this joy, their brilliance magnified by the editing, impose the enigma of their obviousness.

Drama Documentary Family Autism Daughter Mute Adult Parents Decision Disagreement Reception Desire Speech Gesture Joy
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