La sombre jalousie des dames
2024

An video installation.

Commissioned by the musée Réattu in Arles, as part of the "Silence, ça tourne!" initiated by Julie Mazé, cultural mediation officer, and Mireille Loup in 2020.

For this fourth edition, on a proposal from Julie Mazé, Mireille Loup was inspired by the films of Alfred Hitchcock and the film noir genre.

An video performance in five days, the pitch is given to a team of teenagers when they arrive at the museum, while they meet for the first time. Together, they discover, analyze, write the synopsis and the scenario, choose sets and costumes, film, sound record, light the shot and play within the museum, under the amused gaze of visitors, guards and the museum team. 
Composed of scenes which gradually interweave into a story of murders, this film features typical characters of this very macho cinematic genre, in which women are often jealous, vengeful or victims and men are seducers, saviors or guilty. .
In front of and behind the camera, Mireille Loup, assisted by Julie Mazé, leads this young team within the museum for making this film a production of subtle lighting that reveals the photogenic nature of this extraordinary place.

Duration: 5’5’’, loop movie

Production: Ville d’Arles, musée Réattu

Director: Mireille Loup

Distribution:

Angela Napolitano: the woman in the white polka dot top / Naïs Lillamand: the woman murdered by a bullet in the head / Léna Hirsch: the woman wanting to kill by strangulation / Aaron Lapoiriere: the auctioneer / élian Biscaras: the attractive man with the glass of Scotch / Alexandre Rambure: the auctioneer's assistant / Jesse Long: the man saving his wife / Louise Giordano-Reymond: the woman being strangled / Justine Imbert: the killer with the gun.