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Extra Life (and Decay)

Forum Expanded 2025
© Stéphanie Lagarde / Constantin Jopeck
A polyphonic narrator – filmmaker, parent, forest, insects, fungi, childcare worker – declares their absolute refusal of labor exploitation, and their necessity to join collective bodies in resistance. Who ordered legibility? In an incantation to conjure authority, the film unfolds the connections between the inventions of nuclear families and managed forest plots as controllable, normalized units of profitability.
Extra Life (and Decay) celebrates hospitality as a survival tool to fight morbid politics of isolation. An ode to the multitude, the illegible, the unmeasurable.

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by Stéphanie Lagarde (Director, Screenplay)
with Isabelle Lagarde, Stéphanie Lagarde, Suzanne van der Schaaf, Rachele Borghi, Teresa Castro, Enrico Floriddia, Sophie Lapalu, Sarah Netter, Janna Zhiri Netherlands / France 2025 French 21' Colour World premiere

With

  • Isabelle Lagarde
  • Stéphanie Lagarde
  • Suzanne van der Schaaf
  • Rachele Borghi
  • Teresa Castro
  • Enrico Floriddia
  • Sophie Lapalu
  • Sarah Netter
  • Janna Zhiri

Crew

Director Stéphanie Lagarde
Screenplay Stéphanie Lagarde
Cinematography Enrico Floriddia, Constantin Jopeck, Stéphanie Lagarde, Théo Levillain, Pieter van der Schaaf, Rune Ségaut, Clémence Warnier
Editing Stéphanie Lagarde
Music Jaike Stambach
Sound Design Arno Ledoux
Producer Stéphanie Lagarde
Executive Producer Stéphanie Lagarde
Co-Producers Daan Milius, Tim Rutten, Hans van Hezik

Produced by

Stéphanie Lagarde

Paris, France

Co-produced by

Video Power

Maastricht, Netherlands

Photos

Stéphanie Lagarde

© Gaerald Kurdian

Stéphanie Lagarde is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her works explore human strategies of occupation and the control of space throughout systems of objects, signs, and political/social structures. She creates conflicting scenarios from assemblages of sounds, images, and texts drawn from multiple sources. Her films have been presented at festivals such as International Film Festival Rotterdam, Transmediale, Berlin Atonal, DocsMX, and Arkipel Jakarta.

Filmography

2018 Déploiements (Deployments); 16 min. 2019 Rocky Tales Of Occupation; 15 min. 2021 Minimal Sway While Starting My Way Up; 16 min. 2025 Extra Life (and Decay)

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025