NOIR-SOLEIL

Directed by Marie Larrivé
France | 20 minutes | 2021 | French, English, Italian

After an earthquake in Naples bay, the body of a man is found. The Italian police believe the man killed himself 40 years ago. They contact Dino and his daughter Victoria for a DNA test. During this unexpected journey together, the young woman digs into her father’s mysterious past while Dino immerses himself unwillingly in the scenery of his childhood.

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Director: Marie Larrivé
Producer: Nicolas de Rosanbo, Céline Vanlint
Screenplay: Marie Larrivé
Editing: Vincent Tricon
Sound Design: Pierre Oberkampf
Music: Maël Oudin, Pierre Oberkampf
Head of animation: Lucas Malbrun
Backgrounds: Marie Larrivé

Cast: Clémence Quélennec, Marc Barbé, Olivia Corsini

Production company: Eddy

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Marie Larrivé

Marie was born in Saint-Brieuc in 1988, she is a painter and a director. After studying classical literature in hypokhâgnes and khâgnes, she studied at ENSAD Paris and developed a practice of both still and moving images. Trained in the techniques of stop motion model making, traditional animation, and painting, she explores different types of narration.

In 2017, her video «Proxima B» won the audience award at the Science Po Prize for Contemporary Art. The same year, she took part in the exhibition «Apparailler» at the Palais de Tokyo which brought together 23 young artists who graduated from ENSAD Paris. In 2018, Marie completed a writing residency organised by the NEF, at the Abbaye de Fontevraud for her short film project «Noir-Soleil».

Winner of the Pierre-Gautier Delaye prize in 2019, she benefits from a one-year residency at the Cité internationale des Arts to develop both her film and her painting practice.

Marie Larrivé In January 2020, the Miyu gallery organised «Eden», a solo exhibition of her paintings and animation work. The same year, she participated in the Ciclic residency for the production of her hand painted film «Noir-Soleil».
At the beginning of 2021, she exhibited at the Openbach Gallery and the Bastille Design Center with Maison Contemporain. Marie regularly collaborates with musicians on music videos and with magazines as an illustrator.