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Loveboard

Felipe Casanova
Switzerland / Belgium
18’

A broken phone and the digital memory of a broken relationship. Both fragile, both recomposed to reveal the fragments of a first love that seems to fade away. Through the careful manipulation of discarnate metal components and the warm director’s look on a found intimate archive, a parallel movement of lingering and resistance against the ephemeral. A playful reflection on what remains.

Nothing is extraordinary – i.e. out of ordinary – in Felipe Casanova’s Loveboard, not the love story between these two young men, and even less so the images and sounds that it left behind on an iPhone. And this is precisely what makes it extraordinary as a piece of cinema: using bits of apparent nothingness to create broken wholeness. The love story has come to an end, and, in a way, so did its memory, seemingly lost forever once the iPhone broke down. Recovered, repaired, but irreversibly glitchy and faulty, the utilitarian images and sounds of this young love (audio messages, screenshots, past live recordings, nudes etc.) become the keepers of an involuntary, second-nature memory. Casanova’s first short film is an abstract montage-collage that transforms into a beautiful peek-a-boo essay on memory, irreversibility, and eventually on the heavy guilt of wrongdoing. (Călin Boto)

Screening date and location

September 25th, 6:00 PM, Cinema Elvire Popesco

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Felipe Casanova

Felipe Casanova was born in Zürich, Switzerland. He spent most of his childhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2021 he graduated with a Master’s degree in film directing from IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion) in Belgium. Nowadays based in Brussels, Felipe continues to experiment with moving images, working as director and editor. His practices encourage research and experimentation. Loveboard (2023) is his first short film. 



  • Technical sheet
  • Production and distribution
  • Cast: Hugo, Hendrik
  • Director & Screenwriter: Felipe Casanova
  • Director of Photography: Felipe Casanova
  • Sound editing: Valentin Mazingarbe
  • Editors: Felipe Casanova, Nilenzo Clémentin
  • Sound mixing: Timothée Montani
  • Editing touch-ups: Clara Jost
  • Title design: Toni Isabella Valenzi
  • Produced by: Felipe Casanova

Screens

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Loveboard

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A broken phone and the digital memory of a broken relationship. Both fragile, both recomposed to reveal the fragments of a first love that seems to fade away. Through the careful manipulation of discarnate metal components and the warm director’s look on a found intimate archive, a parallel movement of lingering and resistance against the ephemeral. A playful reflection on what remains.

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