A Girl from Ouessant

At the tip of Brittany the island of Ouessanta grassy heathland swept by sea windsis the last land before America Given its geographical situation it is a place that opens wide the doors of imagination A Girl from Ouessant is an invented and at the same time very documented cartography of the island This methodical statement starts as the diary of Éléonore Saintagnan the resident artistfilmmaker at the Créach semaphore station an ideal site for observing the surrounding area Then the account shifts towards a playful mise en scène peopled with sailors wives kelp burners stories of little black sheep or countless shipwrecks Drawing on the regional archives filmed in black and white dating from a time when the island lived mainly from fishing the game begins