Nocturne (2011)

In 2008, Sophia Balestri contacted Luc Le Clech (Bluff, Picnic, Somber Heroes) and Eric Saussine to create a teaser trailer for her upcoming French-language novel La Plume et l'Envol (Feather And Flight). Eric Saussine was interested by the concept and accepted with the gracious condition that he could use the footage to make a short film of his own. As a matter of fact the two videos use some 80% common footage. The short film does not have the literary voice over of the Teaser Trailer. The footage left alone forms a sylvan and contemplative yet coherent narrative about a girl looking for some personal life that society prohibits. The two videos' color-grading is also totally different, La Plume et l'envol (2008) bearing autumnal colors and Nocturne (2011) - night colors. When the leading female character walks along a lake, this short films present a couple of shots that Peter Jackson would have deemed acceptable for his famous adaptations of The Lord Of The Rings.