I Would Like to Rage
Digital video, 11 minutes, French & English language, 2023
A video essay with an ending you can dance to, I Would Like to Rage is smart, tender, and funny. Galibert-Laîné’s thorough and thoughtful practice is fully on display as they take us through various machinations of online and mediatised rage, its performativity, expression, and ownership, and how they experience or rather, attempt to experience rage authentically. A triumph of intelligent vulnerability.
Dayna McLeod, in Sight and Sound Magazine
The virality of images, which Lého Galibert-Laîné's films strive to portray critically and constructively, becomes here the terrain for the realization of queer and feminist fictions. [The film explores] a form of neural spontaneity, of self-nudity, whose triviality (too often looked down upon) remains the site of a rather brilliant pertinence. The film [...] is something of a detonation.
Camille Simon Baudry, in Débordements
Synopsis:
From role playing games to animated GIFs, from reenacted performances to poetic writing, this video essay asks: what is an authentic expression of anger?
Selected screenings:
International Documentary Film festival Amsterdam 2023 (Signed selection)
Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris 2023 (International Competition)
Light Matter 2023
Beijing International Short Film Festival 2023 (International Competition)
Berlin Critic’s Week 2024 (Germany)
Cosmic Rays 2024 (USA)
First Look 2024 (USA)
Filmforum Cologne 2024 (Germany)
Court’Echelle festival 2024 (France)
Marienbad Film Festival 2024 (Czechia)
Alcine Festival 2024 (Spain)
transmediale 2025 (Germany)
Cinemateca de Bogotá 2025 (Mexico)
Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen 2026 (Netherlands)
Jean Rouch Festival 2026 (France)
For research purposes only. This video essay was produced at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts - https://videoessayresearch.org.