Official selection
Sitges Film Festival - Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya 2022
Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 2023
Brussels International Short Film Festival 2023
Neufchâtel Fantastic Film Festival 2023
Honors
Silver Méliès for Best Fantastic Short Film - Sitges Film Festival - Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya 2022
Writer
Mael Le Mée
Cast
Lomane De Dietrich, Manon Drugmant
Cinematographer
Arnaud Alberola
Editor
Aurélien Guégan
contact
Capricci Films
Being the only woman in her “automotive biomechanics” class isn’t easy for Alex (Lomane de Dietrich). She regularly isolates herself, devoting her energies to an engine she’s building with artificial flesh, a living machine that pulsates and secretes when handled with the right touch. Subversive, sensorial, and sensuous in transgressively unorthodox ways, LA MACHINE D’ALEX marks the long-awaited Fantasia return of writer/director Mael Le Mée, after 2017’s extraordinary AURORE. While visually as grotesque as can be, with practical effects that will be too much for many, this is a deeply compassionate journey into self-discovery and liberation through singularly unrelatable erotic explorations that by their very nature serve to alienate. A beautiful and breathtaking film, the purest creative vision, with de Dietrich bringing an uncanny honesty through a performance that will stay with you, LA MACHINE D’ALEX stands as further proof that Le Mée is one of the most exciting talents of his generation. – Mitch Davis
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