Scrap
Noémie Lobry / France / 2025 / World Premiere / 18 min
The corridors of a consciousness invaded by broken cars, where images of the past, present and possible futures coexist.
‘Scrap’ is a stream of thoughts from a sleeping brain, weaving threads of past and present into a dream. Without dialogue, Noémie Lobry’s visionary film circles around motifs from the heyday of automobilism in the 20th century, when the car was the very image of movement, progress and personal freedom. Today, the wrecks of countless cars lie at the bottom of the sea, trapped in rocky caves and collapsed parking lots, like mechanical fossils in the twilight of industrial civilization. In an hallucinatory collage of fragments, new conceptual connections emerge between the subjects as a post-apocalyptic underground guerrilla with headlamps maps the rusty elephant graveyard of car wrecks.