La Bête Engloutie
(The Sunken Beast)
Dimitri lives in the country with his two uncles, Georges & Ludwig. Often in disagreement with his elders, the young man prefers to isolate himself in his little caravan next to the forest.
The uncles like to hunt while Dimitri prefers filming landscapes with his camera. But one day, he loses a video tape in the forest...
Co-written & co-directed by PP Toufektchan & Lucas Khamvongsa. It’s an independent production from Réalize! studio.
Selected at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, in 2017.
The short film is in French & Russian, with English subtitles. There is also a version with French subtitles.
28”00 - 2K - 2,39:1 - 2017
stills by Pascal Bourelier
Je Suis Dans La Grange
Two mysterious men drive a dented van on a country road. In the dumpster, a young boy sits, facing the cold winter wind. He makes the journey with them.
It was a long drive and the driver of the vehicle only remained awake. He must bring the boy to the rendezvous point: a motorhome.
He will find a gift, the last clue to finding his mother.
Written & Directed by PP Toufektchan. It’s an independent production from Réalize! studio.
The film was produced during the Nikon Film Festival, in 2017.
2’’20 - 4K - 1,77:1 - 2017
stills by PP Toufektchan & Lucas Khamvongsa
Retour Aléatoire (Random Return)
Retour Aléatoire (Random Return), this is the title chosen by Dominique Marchès to name a hybrid project:
Return, because the artist returns to his career, during which he founded and directed several galleries and contemporary art centers; return, because it evokes his life as a photographer, and the eclectic collection he has passionately gathered since 1972; return, finally because he chronicles certain facts and meetings essential to his subjective journeys. Random, because he likes to play: if he closes his eyes, he returns to Thouars, a city dear to his adolescence. Random to mean open and fragmentary content, a professional, personal and artistic story where things intertwine and are done without any certainty of predictability.
Written & Directed by Dominique Marchès, Sophie Brossais & PP Toufektchan
Produced by La Ville de Thouars & Le Centre d’Art La Chapelle Jeanne-d’Arc de Thouars
Co-produced with Lucas Khamvongsa & PP Toufektchan
41”15 - 4K - 1,77:1 - 2021
stills by PP Toufektchan & Lucas Khamvongsa
Rendez-Vous à Tyndo
The portrait of a historical building located in the city of Thouars: the Tyndo Hotel.
Before becoming a conservatory, there was a time when the hotel was a school for young girls, at the beginning of the last century. The film marks the meeting with the former students of Tyndo and their neighbors: the children of the primary school.
Two generations meet and share their stories.
A documentary directed & edited by PP Toufektchan
Produced by La Ville de Thouars & Le Centre d’Art La Chapelle Jeanne d’Arc
The link below is private.
Please, do not broadcast the movie.
28’’ - Full HD - 1,33:1 - 2018
Depatture
We call DEPATTURE, the clay earth mass that attaches to the shoe soles (in rainy weather).
When Gargantua walks from east to west and shakes his shoes or clogs, form two hills: one in Taizé, another in Tourtenay, a town of the Centre-Ouest of France.
Written, Directed & Produced by Seulgi Lee
Co-Produced by La Ville de Thouars & Le Centre d’Art La Chapelle Jeanne d’Arc
AD, Cinematography & Editing by PP Toufektchan
The link below is a short clip. To see the entire project, please contact me for the private link.
26” - 4K - 1,33:1 - 2019
Un Été
During the summer holidays, Elliot comes to visit his grandparents, in the country. He will spend two weeks there and observe the life of his family in a lonely panorama.
This film is a personal project that blends documentary style and visual poem. Almost without words and entirely shot at sunset over several weeks, Un Été follows daily life and gathers the characters in an intimate and radiant circle, just before sunset.
Independent short film currently in editing
Directed, shot and edited by PP Toufektchan
40” - 4K - 1,77:1 - 2019
