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Lick a Wound

Nathan Ghali
France
25'

A mysterious community of animals engages in rituals in the basements of a church, sheltered from humans. These animals have chosen to live self-sufficiently in this cellar.

In a few lonely cells, all sorts of little animals live out their existence in cavernous silence. The guttural sounds they utter, foreign to their usual manifestations but somehow perfectly appropriate, ring one after another. We don’t know their language, which is why director Nathan Ghali projects subtitles on the dark walls of their surroundings. The stories of these creatures are heartbreaking, not so much because of the innate tragedies of their stories, but because of the realisation that they see and understand everything. Lick a Wound is not a zoo-like display of the sadness of the animal world, nor an exhibition, but a place of lament, of healing wounds that are seen and unseen. An impressive 3D rendered meditation. (Emil Vasilache) 



Screening date and location

September 26th, 8:30 PM, Cinemateca Eforie

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Nathan Ghali

Nathan Ghali lives and works in Paris. With an audiovisual technician background, he went on to study at the Cergy Art School and then at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Nathan Ghali’s artistic practice revolves around video, photography and 3D. The themes of his work are drawn from his personal history: childhood memories, things seen and experienced, difficulties in communicating. Image banks and 3D models play an important role in his artistic approach.

  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • Director: Nathan Ghali
  • Original screenplay: Nathan Ghali
  • Animation: Margaux Kempff
  • Editing: Michel Klochendler, Nathan Ghali
  • Sound Editing: Michel Klochendler, Etienne André
  • Mixing: Jules Jasko
  • Produced by: Le GREC with the support of CNC France
  • in association with: Le Fresnoy, La Peyrigne, Le Fief
  • Producers: Anne Luthaud, Joanna Sitkowska

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