delicate people (film)
In an allegorical landscape, the film was shot in May 2025 in Puglia, Italy. With Camille Vivier behind the camera, delicate people (film) is a new visual experience of the project initiated by Ruth Childs and Cécile Bouffard in 2021. Here, the photographer’s gaze converges with dance and sculpture. The respective practices dissolve into one another. Cécile Bouffard’s sculptural work invites gesture: a contour calls for a grasp, a touch; a curve invites a caress. Ruth Childs responds with intuition and affect, describing this sensation as a ‘graphic engine.’ This collection of gestures and movements generates narratives inspired by shared impulses. The term ‘delicate’ refers as much to the figures evoked (the hermit, the outsider, the eccentric) as it does to the very process of collaboration in which they found themselves.