Extra Life (and Decay)
A polyphonic narrator — filmmaker, parent, forest, insects, fungi, childcare worker — declare
their absolute refusal of labor exploitation, and their necessity to join collective bodies in
resistance. Who ordered legibility? In an incantation to conjure authority, the film unfolds the connections
between the inventions of nuclear families and managed forest plots as controllable normalized
units of profitability. Extra Life (and Decay) celebrates hospitality as a survival tool to fight
morbid politics of isolation. An ode to the multitude, the illegible, the unmeasurable.
Main festivals:
Berlinale – Forum Expanded
BAFICI Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente
Edinburgh International Film Festival
VIDEONALE
EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul
Director: Stéphanie Lagarde
Script: Stéphanie Lagarde
Cinematography: Enrico Floriddia, Constantin Jopeck, Stéphanie Lagarde, Théo Levillain, Pieter van der Schaaf, Rune Ségaut, Clémence Warnier
Editing: Stéphanie Lagarde
Sound: Arno Ledoux
Cast: Isabelle Lagarde, Stéphanie Lagarde, Suzanne Lagarde van der Schaaf (voices)
Producer: Stéphanie Lagarde, Tim Rutten
Co-producer: Daan Milius, Hans van Hezik
Production: Video Power
