Ève Duchemin
It was while learning the craft of film-making at INSAS (Belgium) in the early 2000s that Eve Duchemin, camera in hand, found her cinematic voice.
Quickly drawn into making documentary portraits, she roamed through Wallonia, filming elderly miners from the Borinage region and the disappearance of local factories (Ghislain et Liliane, couple avec pigeons – 2005; Mémoire d’Envol – 2007 for RTBF). She then turned her camera to a generation of increasingly marginalized youth in Avant que les murs tombent (2009, VPRO) and L’Âge Adulte (2012, Arte), which won awards at Brive (Best Medium-Length Film), as well as at Nyon, Poitiers, and Clermont-Ferrand, among others.
In 2009, she directed a 16mm short fiction film, Sac de Nœuds, about a handbag theft. The film was acclaimed and awarded at festivals (Beaumarchais Prize, Le Court qui en dit Long, and selection at Premiers Plans d’Angers, among others), encouraging her to pursue narrative filmmaking.
But it was while preparing her latest documentary, En Bataille, portrait d’une Directrice de prison (2016, Arte, winner of the 2017 Magritte Award for Best Documentary), that Eve Duchemin discovered, through her work with inmates, the subject of her first feature film: Temps mort (formerly titled La Vie Mécanique).
À propos de son expérience au Groupe Ouest
Temps mort
Le Boost Camp 2017, Sélection Annuelle 2018
The prison has granted them temporary leave. For the first time in a long while, three inmates are allowed outside for the weekend. 48 hours to find their footing. 48 hours to reconnect with their loved ones. 48 hours to make up for lost time.
