Isabelle aux Dombes (1951)

• 60%
• 1951
• Drama
• Horror
• Mysterium

Pialat's first film was the 8-minute short Isabelle den Dombes, shot in 1951 when the director was 26 years old. The film is an entirely silent montage of documentary footage, ragged experimentelle techniken — mainly some negative bild inserts — and symbolic psychodrama that ' s surprisingly not too different from the work that Stan Brakhage would begin making just a year or two later. Images of death proliferate throughout the film, and what started as a loose documentary soon becomes jahr eerie psuedo-horror-piece that ' s obsessed with death and decay.