Démayé
︙Simone Lagrand
Still ƒrom Démayé by Simone Lagrand and Klēlo
Démayé means to unravel what is complicated, tangled and painful. The conversation about sexuality, pleasure, desire and eroticism is tied to its throat, even nowadays. This film is a sort oƒ "bendémaré": a ritual bath in Martinique. It is an invitation to rethink sexuality ƒrom a spiritual and mystical angle in order to remedy what causes the body and the soul to remain caught in situations they don't belong to.
〜Simone Lagrand
Synopsis
A woman is taking a “démayé” bath in her garden. She washes her underwear, her body, her soul. By cleaning her personal story, is she trying to mend the History she was born in. To unravel what is complicated, painful, stuck.
— Simone Lagrand
A woman is taking a “démayé” bath in her garden. She washes her underwear, her body, her soul. By cleaning her personal story, is she trying to mend the History she was born in. To unravel what is complicated, painful, stuck.
— Simone Lagrand
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Simone Lagrand invited me to co-create a sound and visual poem with her. We recorded her voice at my place, and I composed a sound bath of wind, night, and conch shells to cradle her words. Laura De Souza crafted a timeless, luminous embroidered dress. And then we were three women — eating, talking, living, filming — in the Morneverse garden.
Simone Lagrand invited me to co-create a sound and visual poem with her. We recorded her voice at my place, and I composed a sound bath of wind, night, and conch shells to cradle her words. Laura De Souza crafted a timeless, luminous embroidered dress. And then we were three women — eating, talking, living, filming — in the Morneverse garden.
Diffusions
• Pipirit Ciné Club by Jardin Créole ° Paris — 2025
• Ojos Caribe · El Lobi ° San Juan — 2024
• Festival Monde en Vues ° Pointe-à-Pitre — 2024
• Off de la Biennale de Dakar ° Dakar — 2024
• Studio Lumina ° Foyal — 2023
• Images Festival broadcast on MUBI ° Toronto — 2023
• FIANB · Festival Internacional do Audiovisual Negro do Brasil ° São Paulo — 2022
• Festival Court Derrière · Cinémas des diasporas africaines ° St-Denis — 2022
• Black Women Film Conference by New Negress Film Society ° New York — 2022
• Diasporama by Cinémawon ° Volga — 2022
• 23° FestCurtasBH · Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival ° Belo Horizonte — 2021
• Pipirit Ciné Club by Jardin Créole ° Paris — 2025
• Ojos Caribe · El Lobi ° San Juan — 2024
• Festival Monde en Vues ° Pointe-à-Pitre — 2024
• Off de la Biennale de Dakar ° Dakar — 2024
• Studio Lumina ° Foyal — 2023
• Images Festival broadcast on MUBI ° Toronto — 2023
• FIANB · Festival Internacional do Audiovisual Negro do Brasil ° São Paulo — 2022
• Festival Court Derrière · Cinémas des diasporas africaines ° St-Denis — 2022
• Black Women Film Conference by New Negress Film Society ° New York — 2022
• Diasporama by Cinémawon ° Volga — 2022
• 23° FestCurtasBH · Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival ° Belo Horizonte — 2021
Specifications
media: music, audio, video, archives
genre : experimental
dimension: 4:3
duration: 6 min
space: intimancestral waters
time: 2021
media: music, audio, video, archives
genre : experimental
dimension: 4:3
duration: 6 min
space: intimancestral waters
time: 2021
Credits
poem, performance: Simone Lagrand
sound, audio~video editing: Klēlo
costume design: Laura de Souza
poem, performance: Simone Lagrand
sound, audio~video editing: Klēlo
costume design: Laura de Souza
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