37th edition
18-26 january 2025

Modèle animal

Maud Faivre, Marceau Boré

Next sessions

Wed 22/01
11h00
Les 400 Coups - 5
Presented and followed by a meeting with the directors
Thu 23/01
18h00
Les 400 Coups - 6
Image Modèle animal
France
2024 Documentaire 50 min
OV with French subtitles+English subtitles
The Drosophila fly is a perfect model for life in the laboratory, mass-produced to mass-produce knowledge. It lives, dies and loves in the cylinder of a plastic tube. In a larger box, in a research centre for animal behaviour, humans conduct astonishing experiments with these insects. Witnessing these experiments, our perception of
these familiar animals is gradually transformed.
Cinematography : Maud Faivre
Sound : Marceau Boré
Editing : Damien Monnier
Music : Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy
Production : L'image d'après
Maud Faivre is based in Brussels, where she works as a photographer. Her photographic projects focus on the work of others, the mid­mountain landscape and birds. She regularly collaborates with architects and
landscape architects on long­term projects. Animal model, co­directed with Marceau Boré, is her first film.

A musician and sound recordist, Marceau Boré was introduced to ornithology through his encounters with naturalists. He left the studio and concert hall to capture the sounds of his environment and recreate soundscapes. This is how he came to create works for documentary cinema, and how he began his collaboration with photographer Maud Faivre, together surveying landscapes and meeting the people who defend them. Together, they made their first film, Modèle animal.