Ultraviolette and the Blood-spitters Gang

After the death of his grandmother Emma, Robin Hunzinger and his mother Claudie found a carefully preserved collection of letters that Emma received from a girl called Marcelle. Marcelle and Emma met in the mid-1920s. Secretly, love blossomed between the two teenage girls, but after two years they parted ways. Marcelle developed tuberculosis and was admitted to a sanatorium, where she wrote many letters to Emma, letters that still burn with great evocative power. At the sanatorium, rebellious Marcelle, nicknamed “Ultraviolette,” led a group of three young women who were also sick. The film, told through Marcelle’s eloquent letters, combines archive footage, avant-garde films, and music to create a sensuous, poetic atmosphere of absolute love, presenting a daring young woman ahead of her time and a group of kindred spirits that break the barrier of time.

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Direction: Robin Hunzinger

Cinematography: Gautier Gumpper

Editing: Benoit Quinon

Sound: Marc Namblard

Music: Siegfrid Canto

Production: Ana Films

Producers: Milana Christitch

Format: DCP

Color: Color, B/W

Production Country: France

Production Year: 2021

Duration: 74΄

Contact: Lightdox

Awards/Distinctions: The Beeld en Geluid IDFA ReFRameAward for Best Creative Use of Archive – IDFA 2021

Robin Hunzinger

Filmography

2003 Eloge de la cabane
2006 Closing your Eyes
2007 Où sont nos amoureuses
2015 Vers la forêt de Nuages
2016 Inventaire avant disparition
2021 Ultraviolette and the Blood-spitters Gang