Cène

Within one fixed and frontal sequence shot, Andy Guérif meticulously captures the labours of thirteen workers as they reconstruct the entire setting of Duccio di Buoninsegna's masterpiece, "La Cène" (The Last Supper).

The film is a performance in real time, a reflection on artistic creation in the making and a cinematic sequence continually questioning the off-screen space. Cène invites us, in an amusing way, to rethink and readjust our role as spectator, while it simultaneously reinvents that of the actor.

A graduate of the Ecole supérieure des beaux-arts d'Angers in 2001, Andy Guérif has from his first productions worked within very short formats: Portraits d'étudiants, a series of five one-minute films, in 2001, followed by an early one-minute version of La Cène, then Why are you running in 2002, and Video à la nantaise, à l'allemande, à l'américaine presented at the Premiers Plans festival in Angers in 2005. Also a sculptor, Andy Guérif lives and works in Angers, where he is currently preparing a feature film devised in a similar manner to Cène.