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Electric bodies

ARTE France - Unité

At 40, Raphaël Stora decides to step back onto the stage, returning to hip-hop dance, which he had abandoned for filmmaking. But his comeback is not without struggles: a body that resists, rhythm to recover, relentless competition.

Very quickly, this quest turns into something else, an attempt to answer a more intimate question: how can Raphaël rebuild a dialogue with his father, Benjamin Stora, a prominent historian specialising in the Algerian War? If dance has always been an escape from his family history, could it now become its mirror? With a camera in hand, he captures his journey filled with doubts and small…

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Technical Info & Short Credits

Format
Standalone
Genre
Documentary
Duration
47:30
Technique
Live action
Director
Raphaël Stora
Editor
Raphaël Hénard
Producer
Thomas Morvan
Screenplay
Raphaël Stora
With the collaboration of
Raphaël Hénard and Victor Rodenbach
Image
Léo Desnoyelles, Raphaël Stora, Malick Cissé and Karim Hapette
Sound editing and mixing
Raphaël Hénard
Calibration
Elie Akoka
Post-production
Romain Gaillard
Co-production
ARTE France, Unité

Unique features

  • Back on stage at last

    After trading hip-hop dance for filmmaking, Raphaël Stora chooses to reconnect with his first passion.

  • Dance: an escape, or a way of telling one’s story?

    It once allowed him to break away from his father’s history, but could it now bring him closer to it?

  • The world of underground dance

    Where stories are told differently.