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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.