Obscures liaisons

(in progress)

Obscures Liaisons is an experimental film project inspired by the life of Colette Peignot/Laure (1903-1938). I reimagine images and stories from around her to transposing them into a contemporary context to propose alternative possibilities.

The project began as a research into so-called monstrous female figures from mythology, history, and art, positioned in contrast to the fixed ideal of beauty. In this context, I encountered Colette Peignot/Laure (1903-1938), a tempestuous French woman of letters with fragile health. Her work, preserved only in fragments, takes the form of personal accounts, poems, essays, and epistolary exchanges that explore eroticism, exuberance, anarchy, the sacred, and death. Through her experiences and archives, I investigate the connections between her era—the 1930s—its documentation, its representations, and its hidden frameworks. I examine the gaps in these narratives and question how the intimate dimensions of an individual’s experience intertwine with collective history.