Caroline Deruas

Caroline Deruas
Period: 2011-2012
Profession: Caroline Deruas was born in Cannes in 1978, and as a child attended screenings of Fernando Solanas’ films during the festival. Her first cinematic shocks earned her a particular fondness for 35 mm screenings. Her passion for cinema was later confirmed by her discovery of the films of François Truffaut and Roberto Rossellini, followed by a more enraged cinema, including the early films of Marco Bellocchio. Vladimir Maïakovski, Anna Akhmatova, Fyodor Dostoievski, Robert Desnos, Elsa Morante, Daniel Pommeureulle, Henri Langlois, are the masters who inhabit and nourish his universe. Her apprenticeship took place on film sets. First assistant director, then scriptwriter, she worked with filmmakers Philippe Garrel, Romain Goupil and Valéria Bruni-Tedeschi. She also played the role of Léa in
Les amants réguliers. Her first films were essays shot in Super 8 Black & White,
Les indolents and a first dream
Le rêve d’Eli. In 2006, she directed
L’étoile de me r, her first real short film, selected for the Directors’ Fortnight. She then went on to direct
Le feu, le sang, les étoiles, an anti-Sarkozy film that was selected for numerous festivals, including Locarno, and won the grand-prix at the Bilbao festival before being pre-nominated for the Césars. Since then, she has played the role of Juliette in João Nicolau’s first Portuguese feature
L’épée et la rose, and co-wrote
Un été brûlant, Philippe Garrel’s latest film. She is also working on the next
La lune crevée . Her latest short film
Les enfants de la nuit tells the story of a young woman shorn during the Liberation. It will be presented this summer in competition at the Locarno Film Festival. In Rome, she is working on
Territoire du rêve, a collection of Elsa Morante’s dreams in which the 26-year-old writer reveals her recent but already conflicted love affair with Alberto Moravia. On the night of June 27, 2011, her dreams as a boarder, filmed on her arrival at the Villa Medici, will be projected onto the villa’s façade.
Listen up!
Since we’re lighting up the stars,
it’s because they’re at
someone needs to?!
It’s because someone
wants them to be?!
It’s because someone says beads
these spits?
And, forcing the gust at dusty noon,
he races to God,
fears he’s too late, cries,
kisses his gnarled hand, implores
he needs a star!
swears he can’t endure
his martyrdom without stars. (…)
Excerpt from Listen! by Vladimir Mayakovsky The short films The Indolent; The Starfish; Fire, Blood, Stars; Children of the Night Film society Lincoln center