Optimum
Optimum contrasts the destinies of three 19th century British visionaries, who shared the credo that has become so familiar to us : everything should be useful, all human resources should be optimized and made profitable. Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832), a jurist, Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871), an inventor, and Francis Galton (1822 - 1911), a statistician, invested their energies into a "zero error" concept applicable to all of society. Optimum retraces their lives, materializes their most audacious projects, notably by reconstituting via animation the mechanisms they dreamed of. In doing so, the film demonstrates how calculations for happiness can ironically spill over into the darkest of phantasmagorias.
France / Belgium - 2000 - 55 mn - Betacam Digital - Black & white
Réalisation
Henry Colomer
Scénario
Henry Colomer
Direction artistique
Xavier Philippe, Henry Colomer
Son
Éric Vaucher
Montage
Stéphane Foucault
Musique
Cécile Le Prado
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Production
Idéale Audience,
6, rue de l'Agent-Bailly,
75009 Paris, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 5320 1406
Fax : +33 (0)1 5320 1401
E-mail : ideale@ideale-audience.fr
Co-Production
Versus Production, ARTE France, Carré noir, Radiotélévision belge de la communauté française
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Ventes
Idéale Audience International,
6, rue de l'Agent Bailly,
75009 Paris, France
Tél : +33 (0)1 4801 9590
Fax : +33 (0)1 4801 6536
E-mail : scott@ideale-audience.fr |
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