Les garçons sauvages

Five wild boys played by adult actresses are exiled first to a ship and later to an island far from civilization after carrying out the ritual killing of their teacher. Mandico’s self-declared “incoherent” narrative draws on used material shot on out-of-date analogue film to create a hyper-sexualized fever dream in which genre and gender become fluid and cinema is recognized as the only place for fleeting materialization. (Jan Künemund) – “An infectious logic leaves its mark on the frame, expressionistic light, back projections and double exposures, characters looking into the camera, and subjectivities without a subject. It’s impossible to make head or tail of this cinema, which also continually allows itself to be infected by its own story.” (Sebastian Markt, sissy)