Fragments for Venus

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Fragments for Venus

original title:

Fragments for Venus

cast:

Kayije Kagame, Sephora Pondi

editing:

Amrita David

producer:

Max Brun, Michel Klein

production:

Hi Production, Les Film Hatari

country:

Italy/France

year:

2025

film run:

21'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (29/08/2025)

festivals & awards:

DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
I conceive this short film Fragments for Venus as a self-portrait constructed as a collage of images, texts, scenes, and situations that draw as much from documentary as from fiction. It will be mixed with a very subjective set of references with which I have built myself. Paintings, sculptures, films, and book excerpts will be cited: those that may have broken me, sometimes hurt me, and all those that I have found to heal myself and overcome the pain inflicted by this form. In particular, the paintings, photographs, and sculptures I choose represent Black women freed from enslaving representation, in works by Black or white artists, mainly from the 20th and 21st centuries.