Dedicated to the gaping opposition between violence and innocence, The Last Lost Shot is a rare commissioned work by this Boston-trained French film maker. The film originated in a true story of some children who shot dead several of their schoolmates in a small provincial town in America. Cécile Fontaine, herself a teacher as well as film maker, was deeply moved by this episode. Taking it as her departure point she used images from a 1950's documentary on the use of firearms when the Louvre asked to use the film as part of their project on the Apocalypse, helping the whole project to evolve. The final version mixes 16mm, 35mm and slide images (children's drawings), on which different layers of emulsion are used.

Stefano Masi

Commissioned for the film event exhibition on the subject of the “Apocalysm” in cinema, this found footage film is essentially constructed around the strongly altered images of ball-trap sequences for a demonstration film on fire-arms, humorously juxtaposed to images of innocence illustrated by children type drawings on seasonal tales and by fragments of two advertisings films : one on a natural reservation in the Seychelles Islands; the other, a “cartoon”, for raincoats, related to the biblical flood.