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after the night, the night
Fiction Feature Film as writer-director
Tonight, Naomi’s long-term partner reveals to her that he will return to monogamy with one of his recent connections. Confronted with the harsher realisites of non-monogamy, Naomi heads out to the streets of Amsterdam for a night of diverse intimacies, to remember why it is that she committed to this kind of relationship structure in the first place. And as she looks, listens and talks her way through the city’s cobbled streets, is the night getting longer, or is it just the lights from people’s windows making slow conversation with the moon.
The film is part of
Locarno Film Festival Residency 2022 , Ikusmira Berriak Residency 2023, supported by Tabakalera, San Sebastian International Film Festival & EQZE Zine Eskola & ECAM START ME UP residency 2023
Produced by GROM Productions, Golden Egg Productions & Idle Eye
PRESS
Ikusmira Berriak Residency:
http://ikusmiraberriak.eu/_selection_2023
Locarno Film Festival Residency:
https://www.locarnofestival.ch/LFF/about/factory/residency/2022/naomi-pacifique.html
ECAM Start Me Up:
https://ecam-industria.es/la-incubadora/start-me-up/
NOTE OF INTENT:
With after the night, the night, I want to explore possibilites for experiencing intimacy. I want to question monogamy as a social structure which has greatly affected our human relations. Is there a difference between loyalty to another and loyalty to oneself? What do religion and private property have to do with monogamy as we know it today? I want to dive into the spaces which exist for vulnerability, humility and empathy inside intimacy. I want to use my own body as a way of exploring how the internal expresses itself on the surface. And I want to find Naomi wrapped in an alternate time – one of whispers, of touch, of infinity found in the breath of a moment.
in the heart there is a stone
short fiction film as writer-director
In her room, Naomi calls Matteo and compares him to the sea: how can you ask the waves to be anything other than waves? To have known him is enough. His answer is less enthusiastic, and finding herself emptier than she had thought, she heads into a rocky valley to find inner connection: to hear what the rocks, trees, and wind have to say about it all.
Supported by The Netherlands Film Fund, Amarte, Go Short Film Pitch Award, Office Féderal de la Culture & Ticino Film Commission.
If you are interested in supporting this film, please email me at naomipacifique@gmail.com
Produced by Idle Eye & Lido Pictures
rocks like skin like thoughts
Luz and Santiago head to the rocks and the sea for the day, to discuss the relationships they have had with other partners recently. They are trying to reconnect with one another, having caused each other pain. As they sift through their experiences, they end up asking their questions about love to the waves and also the stones. After all they have been there for so long, rising and bouncing off one another, coming back to each other, for millions of millions years. Shouldn’t they know something about it all too?
Part of Le Groupe Ouest's LIM Program 2025.
Development supported by Zürcher Filmstiftung
Produced by Lido Pictures & Idle Eye
