Rattlesnake Productions Presents
THE 7 VICES
a film by Gabriel Otero
THE 7 VICES BY GUSTAVO GALUPPO
The 7 vices is a kind of enigmatic fabric, an open weave of paths that intersect and bifurcate to compose and decompose something that always and inevitably runs away. Details, flashes, textures, sounds, layers, music, times, references, quotes, each particle is articulated with the rest within a logic that cannot be determined exactly because it is known to be traversed by mystery and shadow. Although the structure is presented as episodic, there is no strict autonomy in the parts, but each one of them appears as a distant echo of the others, like an anomalous mirror that multiplies its faces in an expansive way. In each detail of the image a trace is drawn, a remnant, a vestige of something ominous that is sensed as greater than each story (each one, a vice). It is about the fall, the disintegration. These are small dreamed anecdotes that step by step make up the fierce nightmare of decadence.
Times and places intertwine in a playful way. If you are in a time and in a place, the next step, suddenly, you can be on the other side of the world and in a distant time. Everything is encrypted, dated, dated, as if such data were the cipher of an enigma to be solved. But the proposed game is cunning in its tenacity. It is not known where the trip takes us or for what. The dates and places typographically indicated on the screen are finally and only a remnant of information from which the dreamlike atmosphere disregards to follow its course of shadows. Although we are spatially and temporally located in each section, the tenacious dream builds another time and another homogeneous and mysterious space, which is nothing but the imminent time of the fall.
The 7 vices is also, in its atmospheric dreamlike fabric, a celebratory game of quotes and references. All cinemas fit into The 7 vices. Also all the books and art forms. There, The 7 vices is a kind of somewhat ethereal monster. A weightless creature. A Frankenstein built with scraps of other dreams. From film noir to mysticism. From the representation of the Orient to the snobbish world of contemporary art. The trip ignores the strict logic of the scales and articulates the distant with a nightmarish fluidity. At times you might think that you are in a Greenaway film, in others in a Lynch film, in others in a Mathew Barney film, in others in a Jodorowski film, in others in the middle of film noir, in others in silence, in others in the sophisticated forms of the contemporary. But none of this works as a simple appointment and tribute, but as a systematic assimilation of the diverse in a new singular form. One is, always and undoubtedly, in the particular universe proposed by The 7 vices.
In this singular articulation of quotes and references, as in the diversity of assimilated cinemas, the constant figure of the cinematographic stereotype of the hypersexualized woman prevails. Fatal women, geishas, dancers, psychopaths: the cliché is evident in its artifice and the disintegration of the world points to the omnipresent masculine gaze that accelerates the fall with its ferocious dream.
If the figure of the narrative structure of The 7 vices is that of the fabric or that of the anomalous map, it is also, as indicated at the end, that of the Borgean labyrinth. And there, so close to the end, in a possible center of this labyrinth, we meet Tomás de Aquino and a girl in front of the sea: "Daughter, I want to tell you a story." The center of the labyrinth is not the exit, and the dream of the fall has no end.
THE MAGIC TEAM
Director & Writer
Gabriel Otero
Producer
Filipe Dos Santos
Executive Producer
Gabriel Otero
Director Of Photography
Francois Xavier
Production Designer
Rattlesnake Productions
Editor
Rattlesnake Productions
Ernesto Figge
Sound engineer foley & mixer
Ernesto figge
Original Sound Design
Michel Moglia & Patrice Lorion
Waterflower
Suzanne Ben Zakoun
Camille Raphael Berard
Filipe Dos Santos
Juan Martin Medrano
Gabriel Otero
Maria De La Fuente
Nicolas Ker
Vera Baxter
Adrian Maglia
Franco Cinelli
Costume designer
Nobuki Hizume
Stephanie Lambert
Katinka
Duo Style Bruno Petit Et Corinne Pion
Clara Ferrer & Anaïs Decoudun Boissy
Lea Rimaux
Lita Couture Oficial
Visual Effects
Rattlesnake Productions
Casting Director
Gabriel Otero
Special Guest Appeareance
Arielle Dombasle
Nicolas Ker
Cast
Chihiro Niuya
Katinka
Mary Dre Motema
Jimena Buttigliengo
Chloé Rigal
Patricia Kan
Marioara Cheptene
Steeve Gaudet
Emilie Lang
Pierre Cheremetieff
Tomoko Furukawa
Takako Ogasawara
Stephanie Lambert
David Fuchs
Keyline
Julie Von Trash
Dominique Dupoux V.
Suzanne Ben Zakoun
Camille Raphael Berard
Filipe Dos Santos
Marie Claude Mahiette
Michel Moglia
Meriadec Mallat
India Victoria
Alexa Siwer
Tatiana Lostorto
Lea Rimaux
Alexis Tolmatchev
Lazhar
Clayton Albin Du Gravier
Susan Westre
Francois Xavier
Bertrand Schoeller
Corto Peninou
Fifi
First Assistant Director
Felicite Rizzo
Second Assistant Director
Adam Charpentier
Camera
Francois Xavier
Drone Pilot
Tibo Dhermy
Sound
Filipe Dos Santos
Sound Engineer, Foley & Mixer
Ernesto Figge
Gaffer
Hernan Guzman
Art Director
Gabriel Otero
Storyboard
Ana Maria Sugden
Master Of Calligraphy
Tomoko Furukawa
Make Up Coiffeur
Clara Ferrer
Anaïs Decoudun Boissy
Pamela Ferreira
Special Efects
Clara Ferrer
Anaïs Decoudun Boissy
Crew
Lea Rimaux
Clara Ferrer
Anaïs Decoudun Boissy
Lazhar
Maria Teresa Cuchiara
Rattlesnake Productions
Voice Off
English Katinka
Subtitles
Rattlesnake Productions
Graphic Designer
Alexandre Paris
Property Man
Denis Lourenco
Backstage Photographers
Natalia Zavialova
Amanda Rougier
Catering
Emilie Lang
Shooting Locations
Filipe Dos Santos & Gabriel Otero
Jewelry
Katinka
Marie Betrami
Philippe Ferrandis
Collaboration Russe
Katinka
Collaboration Japon
Murielle Dejaeghuere
Collaboration Danse
Raquel Mendez
Penelope Rigal
Choreography Classic Dance
Laure Colmard
Collaboration Model
Barak Architecture
Ilustration Eleven
Antoine Errasti
Ilustration The 7 Vices
Sacha Rezni
Transport
Albatrosfly
Kevin
Shibari
Machine Inside
Street Art
Konny
Security
Cedric T-Joseph
Post Production
Visual Effects Colorist Title Designer
Rattlesnake Productions
Ernesto Figge
Partenariats & Collaborations
Albatrosfly
Ambasade Argentine
Association Doc
Atelier Oga Paris
Théâtre Japonais
Private Chef
Emilie Lang
Blacktool
Clement Langlais
Olivier Guerbois
Centre De Danse Du Marais
Antoine Carrance
Cinéma Studio 28
Hubert Roulleau
Conservatoire Russe De Paris Serge Rachmaninoff
Huguette Cheremetieff Bultel
Pierre Cheremetieff
Château De Chanceaux Pré Loches - Forest Wood Shed
Delphine De Virel Et Jocelyn
Château De Fontenay Isoré Tauxigny - Saint Bauld
Florent Louet
Duo Style
Bruno Petit Et Corinne Pion
Ecole De Danse Terpsichore Paris
Galerie 55 Bellechasse
Bertrand Scholler
Institut Technique De Maquillage
François Regaudie
Julie Von Trash
Bijoux Et Robes
Katinka
Marie Betrami
Philippe Ferrandis
Transport Exclusive
Kevin
Albatrosfly
La Forêt Des Livres / Les Écrivains Chez Gonzague Saint Bris
Marie Claude Mahiette
Henry Et Estelle Saint Bris
Choregraphy
Laure Colmard
Mairie De Chanceaux-Près-Loches
Jean Louis Dumortier
Mairie De Quend
Marc Volant
Mairie De Quiberville
Monsieur Jean-François Bloc
Mairie De Saint Quentin En Tourmont
Francis Gouesbier
Mairie De Varengeville-Sur-Mer
Patrick Boulier
Orgue De Feu
Michel Moglia
Patrice Lorion
Montserrat Torrents
Patrick Mimouni
Headpices
Nobuki Hizume
Couture
Stephanie Lambert
Peniche Paris Tokio
David Fuchs
Quiberville
Hotel L’hermitage
White Velvet
Anne De Reinach Hirtzbach
Willy Rizzo Édition
Conseils Danse Classique
Raquel Mendez
Graphic Designer
Asociation Doc
Atelier 22
Eric Guglielmi
Sebastian Constantin
Jorge Frances
Robin Reguron
To The Most Sublime Women In My Life Katinka
Thank You To All Of You Who Made This Film Possible
Rattlesnake Productions
www.rattlesnakeproductions.fr
© 2021
AUDIO-VISUAL WORK & AWARDS
SHORTS
No Brand - (2002)
Likuidreams - (2002)
Politicos de Mierda - (2002)
Vinilo War - (2002)
Absolut Bushit - (2002)
Deadtime - (2002)
Speed - (2002)
Perra Maldita - (2002)
Metrodogma - (2002)
Los Piqueteros - (2002)
Cura del Orto - (2002)
Que viajes Traes Tio - (2002)
Sensorial part II (2003)
9 de Copas - (2003)
Erebo - (2004)
Scream - (2004)
Mc Clean - (2004)
Brain Damaged - (2005)
Tout est Possible ( 2013)
La toute-puissance des rythmes (2014)
235 (92) (2015)
Sin Permiso (2015)
Dancing in the Space (2017)
Cinema Verite (2020)
FEATURE FILMS
The 7 Vices ( 2021)
This film is the first feature film by Argentinian director Gabriel Otero.
Eleven (2023) -
Work in progress
Je t’attends mon amour (2025)
Work in progress
The 7 Vices (2021)
Award Winner Best Feature Film
Award Winner Best Actress Arielle Dombasle
Nominated Anual RED MOVIE AWARDS Ceremony
Red Movie Awards Reims 2022
Award Winner Best Director Feature Film
Paris Cinema Awards 2021
Award Winner Best Cinematography
Argenteuil International Film Festival 2021
Award Winner Best Art Director
Award Winner Best Cinematography
Moscow Russia International Film Festival 2021
Award Winner Best Experimental Film
New York Movie Awards 2021
Award Winner Best Actress
Award Winner Best Scenography
Award Winner Best Costume Design
Honorable Mention Best Sound Design
Honorable Mention Best Actress
Honorable Mention Best Director Debut
Master of Cinema Moscow 2022
Award Winner Best Experimental Film
Award Winner Best Sound Design
Tokyo International Film Festival 2021
Award Winner Best Foreign Feature
London Independent Film Awards 2021
Award Winner Best Sound Design
New York Neorealisme Film Awards
Award Winner Best Cinematography
Honorable Mention Experimental Film
Art Film Awards 2021
Award Winner Silent Film
Award Winner Sound Design
Outstanding Achievement Award Debut Filmaker
Outstanding Achievement Award Best Director
Outstanding Achievement Award Experimental Film
Outstanding Achievement Award Film on Nature - Environment - Wildlife
Outstanding Achievement Award Best Actress Acted by Jimena Buttigliengo
Calcuta International Cult Film Festival 2021
Award Winner Best VFX / Special Effects
Award Winner Best Costume Design & Make Up
Athens International Art Film Festival 2021
Award Winner Best Cinematography
Award Winner Best Editing
Award Winner Best Sound Design
Award Winner Best Actress Acted by Jimena Buttigliengo
Outstanding Achievement Award Best Director
Outstanding Achievement Award Debut Filmaker
Outstanding Achievement Award Experimental Film
Black Swan International Film Festival 2021
Award Winner Best Director
Award Winner Best Actress Jimena Buttigliengo
Award Winner Best Supporting Actress Chihiro Niuya
Award Winner Best VFX Artist
Award Winner Best Sound Design
Outstanding Achievement Award Experimental Film
Outstanding Achievement Award Cinematography
L’Age d’Or International Arthouse Film Festival 2021
Award Winner Best Feature Film
Glasgow The Monthly Film Festival 2021
Finalist Best First Time Director
New York Oniros Film Awards
Finalist Best Feature Film
Rome Independent Prisma Awards
Finalist Best Experimental
European Film Festival (Mainstream & Underground)
Finalist Feature Film
Auber International Film Festival 2021
Finalist Feature Film
Lacorne International Film Festival 2021
Finalist Feature Film
Paris International Film Awards 2021
Official Selection
London Director Awards 2022
Official Selection
Diamond Eye 2021
Official Selection
Actor & Director Award 2021
Official Selection
Milan Gold Awards 2021
Semi Finalist Feature Film
BLOW-UP · International Arthouse Filmfest · Chicago
Semi Finalist
Vancouver Independent Film Festival 2021
Semi Finalist
Calgary Independent Film Festival 2021
Cinema Verite (2020)
Award Winner Best Director Short Film
Lacorne International Film Festival 2021
Award Winner Best Experimental Short
London Independent Film Awards 2021
Official Selection
Festival PLAY Videoarte y Cine Experimental 2021
Finalist Best Cinematography
Tokyo International Monthly Film Festival 2021
Finalist Best Experimental
Paris Play Film Festival 2021
Finalist
Paris International Film Awards 2021
Semi Finalist
London Indie Short Festival 2021
Semi Finalist
Berlin Shorts Awards 2021
Official Selection
Mumbai Entertainment International Short Film Festival
Official Selection
Bucharest Short Cut Cine Fest 2021
Official Selection
Le Festival Napoleon 2021
Deadtime (2002)
Official Selection Finalist
Neurofilms Festival, Argentina.
Speed (2002)
Official Selection Finalist
Neurofilms Festival, Argentina.
Que viaje traes tio (2002)
Official Selection Finalist
The Ten Second Films Competition (2003), New York USA.
9 de Copas (2004)
Jury Mention Best Concept
VI Festival de Cine de terror, Fantastico y bizarro, Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre (2005)
Seleccion Competitiva Oficial Cortometrajes Nacionales, BuenosAires, Argentina.
Brain Damaged (2005)
Official Selection
Festival Images Contre-Nature, (2006)Marseille, France.
Mc Clean (2004)
Jury Honorable Mention
Festival of Cine Digital, Vina del Mar, Chile
Tout est Possible (2013)
Official Selection
Festival Images Contre-Nature, 2014 Marseille, France
Circe: the black cut (2014) THE PLACE * kleisovis 10, Athens.
La toute-puissance des rythmes (2014)
Official Selection
Pixels of Identities International Experimental Video Art Festival , Spain.
MADATAC # 6, Muestra de Arte Digital Audiovisual y Tecnologias Avanzadas Contemporaneas.
Papay Gyro Nights Art Festival 2015
Papay Westray, Orkney, Scotland 2015
Hong Kong 2015
Noida International Film Festival 2015
Rattlesnake Productions Presents
Cinema Vérité
a film by Gabriel Otero
Rattlesnake Productions Presents
Cinema Vérité
a film by Gabriel Otero
Music Ossuary 6 Air Kevin Mac Leod
Paris © 2020
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From November 17, 2018, the protest is organized around illegal blockades of roads and roundabouts and demonstrations every Saturday. These protests mainly mobilize residents of rural and peri-urban areas, but are also organized in metropolitan areas, where several violent episodes occur, especially on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées or nearby.
Quickly, the demands of the movement widened, in particular to the improvement of the standard of living of the popular and middle classes, the resignation of the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, the reinstatement of the wealth tax and the establishment of the citizens' initiative referendum. During rallies, most often undeclared, several thousand people are injured, both on the side of the demonstrators and the police. Institutions such as the UN and the Council of Europe, as well as associations such as Amnesty International, criticize inappropriate conduct of the maintenance of order and question the use of weapons such as LBDs and de-encirclement grenades.
