41st edition COURTS MÉTRAGES 2026
MY LITTLE NOTHING
Lucy KERR
Two voices, one written, the other synthesized, engage in a philosophical dialogue about the amorous abyss separating them: a nineteen-year-old girl has decided to marry the Devil.
A word from the selection committee :
The devil lies in the details; and My Little Nothing is nothing but details. With a pared-down setup, two frames, two voices, Lucy Kerr turns this “little nothing”, which begins as a socratic dialogue, into a genuine descent into horror, insensibly erasing the boundaries between space, time and beings. Inspired by Mary MacLane’s diary, written in 1910 and titled I Await the Devil’s Coming, from which she draws the material for her dialogues verbatim, Lucy Kerr brings another reality to light, one in which the sounds of a teenage girl’s bedroom as we imagine her behind her screen, and the vast expanses of a Latvian forest echo each one another and – just like its protagonists – strike a dialogue. The conceptual and minimalist strength of Kerr’s work imperceptibly reaches Lovecraftian heights, at once cosmic and paradoxically comic.
Victor Bournerias
Traduction : Aurore Kahan
- Scénario
- Lucy Kerr, à partir du livre de Mary MacLane Await the Devil’s Coming
- Photographie
- Lucy Kerr
- Son
- Andrew Siedenburg
- Montage
- Karlis Bergs
- Production
- Lucy Kerr
With a dual MFA in Film/Video and Art from the California Institute of the Arts, Lucy Kerr was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in the 2022 issue of Filmmaker Magazine. Her first feature film Family Portrait was screened at the Locarno Film Festival in 2023 winning many awards, including the Boccalino d’Oro for Best Director.