Regarding Faustine

Ira A. Goryainova / Belgium / 2024 / World Premiere / 14 min.

synopsis

A short poetic essay depicting a young girl, Faustine, explores the relationship between the director and the protagonist and how the film camera, as a silent, omnipresent mediator, defines it. With a certain amount of self-reflection, the film understands documentary film as a medium that has a dominant power over the subjects it captures by locking their souls and likenesses forever into the cinematic image.

“The act of looking becomes tangible through technology, superstitions and phantasmic vision. A film, it states, is a space that takes a real-life person hostage, engulfs, and seals them in forever.”

biography

Audiovisual artist and director Ira Goryainova (1984) completed her MA and PhD studies at the Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema & Sound in Brussels, where she is also a lecturer. In her work, which consists of performances, video installations and film essays, she explores the relationship between the camera, the viewer and the depicted object, especially the human body.

more about film

director:	Ira A. Goryainova
cast:	Faustine Thibon
producer:	Ira A. Goryainova
script:	Ira A. Goryainova
photography:	Patrick Stevens
editing:	Ira A. Goryainova
Distributor:	ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts