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Saint Georges

Alle Dicu
France / Romania
20'

In a flat, three women teach each other to look. To look at what? Samples of marble. Their vision and speech become more refined as they make the material their own.

Three young woman are closely watching the landscapes imprinted on several marble samples; a white dot could be snow — or rather bones, a human tooth, that which remains after flesh decomposes; a pink gradation disturbs the gaze, as it reminds of the background of countless of war scenes, and Saint George can be seen in a notch. The game, at first stiff, bookish and uneasy before the camera, becomes more serious, more intellectually passionate and intimate as the eyes seize each detail, the words get more precise, and their bodies get used one with the other. Alle Dicu achieves a charming deconstruction of hermeneutics, of the grace that is inherent to interpretation and imagination, and of the personalities of the first person. (Călin Boto)

Screening date and location

September 28th, 6:30 PM, Cinemateca Eforie

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Alle Dicu

Alle Dicu’s artistic practice and research interrogate the role of language in our relation to the material world. During the last ten years, she has developed a multi-disciplinary artistic research on decorative stones and their use in architecture. In 2021, she defended a thesis entitled “Visions of a Surface. Marble as a Sensitive Surface and its Visuality”. This project examines how extrinsic societal values are assigned to decorative marble and how its use in architecture plays a role in the articulation of power discourses be them religious, sovereign or economic. Entering Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in 2023 allowed her to direct two films that use marble to question the contemporary technological flux in which mental and physical images are caught.



  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • Director: Alle Dicu
  • with texts by : Florence Cats, Alle Dicu, Laëtitia Striffling
  • marble samples scans from : Corsi Collection of Decorative Stones, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
  • DOP: Joseph Hogan
  • Editing: Carla Byaisys, Raphaël Hénard
  • Sound recordist: Raphaël Zucconi
  • Sound edit & mix: Raphaël Hénard
  • Color grading: Baptiste Evrard
  • Artistic support: Patric Chiha
  • Artistic coordinator: François Bonenfant
  • Produced by: Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains
  • Production director: Luc-Jérôme Baillleul
  • Production manager: Lucie Bercez

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