Juliette Joffé
Born in Paris in 1987, worked as an assistant of acclaimed documentary filmmaker Marc Isaacs before co –founding Quadrangle Film Festival, a creative documentary film festival in Kent. It’s after these inspiring experiences that she decided to start on the making of her first professional short film Peut-être le noir (Maybe Darkness) which won the Wildcard for Best Documentary awarded by the Flemish Film Board and was premiered at Visions Du Réel Nyon.
Filmography:
Maybe Darkness (2013)
A Self Portrait. In five stories (2011)
A Portrait Of Renee, the last of the Mohicans (2010)
Statue (2008)
Films
- Maybe Darkness25’52’’
Production: FR 2014
An old Mediterranean family flat remained at a standstill for 150 years, as if stuck in time. Years pass by as generations come back to it every summer for holidays. The film exploresthe blurring of different timescapes in the space of the flat, intertwining the visual presences of the dead ancestors and the fleeting apparitions of the living family members. Through fragmented voices “Maybe Darkness” questions one’s relationship with familial past and cherished places.
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