ASSASSINS

Before making CAFÉ AU LAIT, I needed to find the crew I would work with before starting my first feature film. I also needed a few more stripes. I decided to make one more conceptual short that was complicated technically and artistically to test a crew, but also to test my own talent in telling a story. I wanted to bring the spectator into ASSASSINS as though it were a scene from a film and not let go of them right up to making them break before the violence of the story…an exercise in style.

One of the advantages of short films is the possibility of doing what one wants to do, without any obligation to respect commercial or other rules. Being able to do anything does not guarantee a good film. Claiming oneself as an artist does not guarantee talent.

But the medium of short films is the only one that allows you to take yourself for an artist without taking too many risks…

My thanks to Marc Berman, the Mr Wagner of the period, as well as to Mr Vidal (Robert Gendreux) who I killed again and again in the long version.