Une femme noire se lance dans un voyage méditatif à travers les paysages sauvages des Caraïbes, confrontant des souvenirs oniriques et des expériences traumatiques. Cette exploration des thèmes de la migration et de la mémoire générationnelle remodèle son voyage, la plongeant profondément dans son subconscient, où elle rencontre son enfant intérieur et s’aventure dans des royaumes ancestraux.

a film by | un film de
Daniela Yohannes, Julien Beramis

Guadeloupe / 2020 / Expérimental, 22 mins, V. O. italien, anglais créole, / sous-titres Anglais, Français


Title | Titre :
ATOPIAS: I Have Left that Dark Cave Forever, My Body has Blended with Hers

Trilogy | Trilogie :
Trilogie « Atopias » de Daniela Yohannes et Julien Beramis, composée de trois films qui explorent les géographies de la migration, de la mémoire générationnelle et du traumatisme.
– ATOPIAS: I Have Left that Dark Cave Forever, My Body has Blended with Hers (Part I)
– ATOPIAS: The Homeless Wanderer (Part II)




Directors, Screenwriters | Réalisation et Scénario :
Julien Beramis et Daniela Yohannes

Editing | Montage :
Daniela Yohannes

Cinematography | Direction de la photographie :
Julien Beramis

Production :
Julien Beramis and Daniela Johannes

Distribution :
Sudu Connexion

Contact :
Sudu Connexion
festival(@)sudu.film


Fuente / Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D’INFOS) :
– Africiné Magazine (Dakar)
– www.danielayohannes.com/film/atopias-i-have-left-that-dark-cave-forever-my-body-has-blended-with-hers-/view/8807424/2/8807425
– https://tropiques-atrium.fr/cinemartinique/events/atopias-the-homeless-wanderer/
Updated by Thierno DIA, 10 April 2025

This film is a meditative walk across terrains, where a protagonist traverses atopic spaces thriving only at a level of foundational life; gaseous stars, dense plants, glittering rocks and uncontrolled water. Its nonlinear narrative examines how the conscious absorbs and processes hostilities of society and environment into the unconscious. The camera’s scrutiny of the protagonist hints at this, its hesitance and confusion suggesting that perhaps these surroundings actually form a dystopia of sorts. With questions of identity often linked to where one considers ‘home’, perhaps such atopias – that of space, sky, water, and fissures deep beneath the ground – can be compromises for those denied the chance to ever feel they have one.


Atopias: I Have Left that Dark Cave Forever, My Body has Blended with Hers.
2019
Single Channel, 22 minutes, 1 seconds, Colour, Stereo.


Directors : Daniela Yohannes and Julien Béramis

Cinematographer : Ludovic Claire

Macro Videography : Tilly Mint

Colorist : Yannig Willmann

Sound Design : Basile Andrieu

Research and Editorial Assistance : Steve Shaw

Project Consultation : Sarah Hammond

Film Poster : Manuel Sepulveda

With the support from the International Curators Forum (ICF)


Distribution :
Sudu Connexion

Contact :
Sudu Connexion
festival(@)sudu.film



Fuente / Fontes / Our Source / Quelle / Nos Sources (MAIS INFORMAÇÕES / READ MORE / PLUS D’INFOS) :
– Africiné Magazine (Dakar)
– www.danielayohannes.com/film/atopias-i-have-left-that-dark-cave-forever-my-body-has-blended-with-hers-/view/8807424/2/8807425
– https://tropiques-atrium.fr/cinemartinique/events/atopias-the-homeless-wanderer/
Updated by Thierno DIA, 10 April 2025