Jessica Forever + After School Knife Fight

Ahead of the release of Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel’s film Eat the Night, Cinéma Public and Ritual Films present a programme of two films by the visionary duo.

Poggi and Vinel’s cinema is one of fractures and fragments, in which violence and gentleness are always intertwined; tender but also tenderly angry. It’s a new kind of cinema, one that appropriates the codes of music videos, video games and all that all-consuming connectivity to create a world both dreamt of and feared. A living cinema, a cinema that in the night howls with rage and love.

AFTER SCHOOL KNIFE FIGHT

2017 / 21 min. Laetitia, Roca, Nico and Naël are in a band. As per usual, they meet late afternoon before rehearsal in a vacant lot. The group will soon no longer exist; they will be forced to disband because Laetitia is moving away to study. This is the story of four young adults who do not want to say good-bye.

JESSICA FOREVER

2018 / 97 min. Jessica is the leader of a group of lost boys with a violent past who now seek peace and harmony. She is the only one to have ever brought them love and understanding. They only wish to create a world where they can live in peace together, and forever.