The Diary of Théodore Kracklite

Running time: 16'7"

Production: FR/IT 2016

This extraordinary film depicts the events of an archeological expedition form the 1920s, on the tracks of the elephas falconeri – a dwarf elephant, a creature that existed but is nonetheless reminiscent of the legendary Cyclops. Théodore Kracklite found the creature’s fossilised skulls in the undersea caverns of Sicily. The film revisits the well-known myth from Homer’s “Iliad,” which grows to the rank of a metaphor of the modern ecological crisis and serves as a reminder of the massive extinction of species.

Authors:

  • Jacques Lœuille

    Jacques Lœuille, born in 1983, studied at l’École des beaux-arts de Nantes and Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains. Since 2011 he has worked on documentary film projects which have been exhibited in galleries, art centers, museums, and film festivals in France and abroad. He has also directed for television, for instance “Marguerite Yourcenar, Alchimie du paysage” (2014). He is currently directing a documentary for European televisions, on military dumping into the North Sea. He is also working on a feature documentary film, “The Birds of America.”

    The Birds of America (in production)
    Les origines du nationalisme – episode 3 (in pre-production)
    Kupka, une autre histoire de la modernité (in production)
    Mer du Nord, cimetières marins (in pre-production)
    J’y suis j’y reste!  – episode 4 (2016)
    Le Journal de Théodore Kracklite (2016)
    Advertising Gruyère AOP Suisse cheese (2014)
    Marguerite Yourcenar, Alchimie du paysage (2014)
    An Optimist in Andalusia (2011)
    Roadside Attractions (2010)
    Balade américaine en Flandres (2009)
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