Lucas Baba

Notebook 手帖

Notes, voice notes, scouting and photographs, kept while the films are being written. Newest first.

Framing real life until the second before it slips away

Photographs

Right after protests in Paris

Where it all started

Photographs, Love

mom & dad before we were born

Rehearsal

Frame grabs, Répétition

Rehearsal
Rehearsal
Rehearsal

An actress teaches a photographer to act while he learns to direct, and we never know where the exercise ends.

The port

Photograph, Japan

The port

The fan

Voice note, Mort naturelle

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Transcript

« Le son, c’est le ventilateur, la radio des voisins, et puis plus rien. Le silence doit arriver avant qu’on comprenne. »

La force des choses

Note, Mort naturelle

August 2003. Thousands of people died alone in their flats and were found days later. The film keeps one of them, and gives her no name.

Afternoon

Photographs, Japan

Afternoon
Afternoon
Afternoon

Me Kaksi

Photographs, Setsunai

Contact sheet

切ない — there is no word for it in French. Somewhere between longing and the ache of something already passing.