My Name Is Nathan

This short film created at Supinfocom Valenciennes by French artist Benoit Berthe portrays an internal conflict, using various elements to produce a highly subjective and intimate narrative.

Two characters are presented, one real, the other a transposition of the first one’s internal struggle. Staged in an apartment room, the use of objects is intentionally sparse, with attention focused on the interior world of the child. Camera moves, close-up shots, sound, lighting and facial expressions help transmit the expressiveness and variations in the emotions of the child character, as well as his focus on his own interior reality.

The surreal aesthetic and metaphor the artist conceived for autism turn this short into an unsettling but greatly poetic work, which helps transmit a delicate subject such as autism to an audience that may not have had direct contact with it.

It’s worth noting that the author did not have direct experience on the matter, which shows his level of sensitivity and empathy in being able to understand it an transmit it with such authenticity.