Stagman

by Virginie Gourmel
20’
Belgio/Belgium
2007
16mm

Amaury Athanam is a “stagman” who lives a secluded life. He can no longer stand the way he looks and wants to put an end to his depressing existence. Unable to pluck up the courage to commit suicide, he hires a killer. But Amaury then meets Corazon, a charming young woman with the face of a doe with whom he falls in love. Having recovered his taste for life, Amaury no longer wants to die but you cannot summon death only to send it away again.

Produzione/Production: Versus Production

Distribuzione/Distribution: Versus Production

Sceneggiatura/Script: /

Fotografia/Photography: Sébastien Koeppel

Montaggio/Editing: Damien Keyeux

Suono/Sound: Aline Huber

Lingua/Language: Francese/French

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Virginie Gourmel

Virginie Gourmel was born in the early 1970s in Lyon. After a happy childhood (she modelled as a child for the LB ice cream company) and an equally happy adolescence, for a long time Virginie considered becoming an Olympic Horseball champion. But, since she was pretty single-minded and adored Marilyn Monroe, she enrolled to study cinema at the INSAS, in Brussels. From the directing department, she soon moved to the photography one. After about eight years working as a camera assistant (L’Iceberg, Cages, En territoire Indien, Ta soeur, Nord Plage…), she moved on to more serious things in 2005 and directed her first short film, “Aïe!”. And she is not going to stop there. . “Stagman” is her second short film.