Helmet

Synopsis

Helmet, a young queer looking for intimacy is obsessed by a cruising spot located around the parking Rent a car Relax. He's hanging around there days and nights, but intimidated by his desire, he connects clumsiness and provocations towards the place's keeper: calling and hanging up on her, stealing from the lost and found box, spying... One night, a fight between two cruisers occurs in one of the cars and the guard intervenes. Helmet comes to help her.

Director Biography

Valentina Parati (1996 - Italy) has a background in visual arts with a BFA and MFA and is currently enrolled in the MA program in cinema ECAL/HEAD. Her practice explores the soundscape of rave, queer and car culture, in order to investigate fetish and relations between bodies and machine. Antoine Scalese (1989 - France) makes experimental films and writes for screen. His work reflects on the representation of sexuality, bodies, and liberalism on screen.