Émilien de Bortoli

Metronome (120 BPM) is a film directed by Konstantin Lucas Mikaberidze, Lola Quivoron & Christian Reifert for the workshop "Musique At Work" supervised by Noëlle Pujol for the first year of Masters students in Film Studies at the University Paris Diderot (Paris 7). Shot in one take, Alexandre Babeanu records three musiciens -- Émilien de Bortoli, Adrien Katz & Min Yin II -- who improvise one after the other for two minutes on a fixed tempo of 120 beats per minutes. From these recordings, he creates a remix that he plays back to his collaborators.

In 2018, they broke into politics. By putting on a yellow vest, they revolted for the first time in their lives. The film tells the story of the aftermath. Through their intersecting itineraries, modified life paths are then embodied: paused, twisted or illuminated by this decisive experience that will somehow politicize their existence. Echoing the stories of other uprisings, their words question the places of citizenship and the transformative power of revolt.