DANSES MACABRES

SHORT MOVIE & PHOTOGRAPHIES

The mistery of love is greater than the mistery of death.

Set in a theatre in Paris, DANSES MACABRES, directed by Piero Gioacchino Joremia, unfolds as a ritual in nine tableaux where women embody archetypes suspended between desire, sacrifice, power and transcendence.

A platoon of soldiers crosses a blade of light like a fatal procession; noble women whisper in a garden heavy with secrets; Salomé weeps beside a stone fountain, her seven veils scattered like abandoned skins; a soldier breaks ranks toward a solitary bathtub at center stage; a violet butterfly lands as an omen; the Dame à la Licorne appears in a lush allegorical garden; a holy woman faces the stake within her own home; a witch sits upon the moon; a matron presides over her velvet throne holding the keys to her empire. Each scene stands alone yet echoes the others — love confronting death, sensuality confronting faith, flesh confronting myth. The film proposes that the true enigma is not mortality, but the force that binds bodies and destinies beyond it.

Every character deeply inspired by European Mythology.

VISUAL LANGUAGE 

The entire film is conceived as a staged hallucination inside a Parisian theatre.

Theo Malet designs a scenography that feels both medieval and radically contemporary minimal yet symbolically dense. Light cuts the darkness in architectural strips, recalling sacred paintings and runway aesthetics simultaneously.

The palette revolves around deep pomegranate reds, velvets, inky blacks and mineral greens. Couture pieces created exclusively for the film by Les Fleurs Studio (Maria Bernad) elevate each character into an icon sculptural silhouettes, noble fabrics, and tactile layers that interact with movement.

Eugénie Drion choreographs four dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet, whose presence oscillates between military precision and ritual trance. Illustration, costume, choreography and cinema merge into a living fresco.

The film draws inspiration from the sacred sensuality and political corporeality of Pier Paolo Pasolini — particularly the chromatic density and sacred eroticism of Il fiore delle Mille e una Notte — combined with Caravaggesque chiaroscuro and medieval allegory. The spirit of La Dame à la Licorne, baroque martyrdoms, and pagan cosmologies inform the imagery. The pomegranate — symbol of fertility, blood and resurrection — becomes the emotional undertone of the color script. The result is a contemporary danse macabre where death is never grotesque, but tender, intimate, and luminous.

TALENTS

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The cast will be composed of four outstanding profiles among the most compelling artists, creatives and celebrities of the new generation in France and internationally, alongside four dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet. By bringing together the strongest emerging voices across disciplines, the project ensures significant cultural resonance and media attention for the gallery. DANSES MACABRES is conceived not only as an exhibition film but as a cinematic work destined for international film festivals and art platforms worldwide, amplifying its visibility and positioning it within both contemporary art and auteur cinema circuits.