Isaac, 2023 (16’ 17‘‘)
Isaac, a teenager worried about the future of the planet, decides to climb the Pic du Midi alone. For him, this high peak in the Pyrenees is a symbol of unspoilt nature, which he wants to get closer to. The encounters and obstacles he faces along the way will lead to a total and unexpected metamorphosis through fire. Part tale, part initiation story, Isaac evokes the anxieties of a generation nourished by the threats of a burning world, from which it will escape through a supernatural ritual.
Physics, 2022 (9’ 32‘‘)
Physics is a visual tale in five tableaux, which present a palette of human relationships. Shot at EPFL and at the University of Lausanne, Physics features students torn between the objectivity of the sciences they are studying, and the power of the emotions that youth in particular experience. Physics is a fascinating and evocative exploration, in which Corbasson offers her sophisticated perspective on the atmosphere of the EPFL campus. She reveals the mysterious and intimate aspects of the relationships that inhabit and characterize it, while making visible the power and presence of its natural surroundings. It is a story that narrates, beyond human relations, the complex perception that individuals have of their own environment – between rationality and fascination.
Looking for You, 2019 (10’ 33‘‘)
Looking for you is an observational project conducted by Caroline Corbasson during a one-year residency at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM). It documents the construction of the wide-field infrared spectrophotometer NISP, one of the two instruments of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope, designed to understand the acceleration of the universe by mapping about a billion galaxies. This film was commissioned by CNES.
Atacama, 2017 (19’ 30’’)
Atacama follows the journey of a young woman carrying a mysterious sealed box from Paris to the Atacama Desert in Chile. The Atacama Desert is one of the most hostile places on earth. Because of its aridity, nothing grows there, nothing lives there. Because of its salinity and dryness, nothing can disappear there either; everything that dies there is perfectly preserved. This immense expanse of red and cracked earth does not allow anything to live or die completely. It is a territory that escapes meaning. At the foot of gigantic telescopes, in the dust of the world’s most arid desert, a tormented personal quest slowly takes shape.