Since his bicycle accident, Frank sees no moving images. The crash caused an anomaly in his synapses, so that he sees only still images every five seconds.

5 SECONDS
5 Segundos. E 2008. R,B: Jean François Rouzé. B: Daniel Méndez Kunschke. K: Pedro Martín-Calero, Paloma Léon. S: Marcos Flórez, Pilar Pantoja. M: Felipe Milano. P: ECAM. D: David Durán, Inés Blanco, Elena Maurandi. 13'

Jean-François Rouzé

Jean-François Rouzé was born in France and moved to Madrid with his parents when he was nine. He started attending the ECAM at 23, has directed twenty short-movies (5 SECONDS is his latest work) and recently set up his own production company, Wake Up Pictures.

• SOPHIE
• 5 SECONDS (2008, 13')

Links

• A Fraction of a Second of Happiness – Marieke Steinhoff about 5 SECONDS
• Editing Puzzle – An interview with Jean François Rouzé
• A Steady Rise – Marieke Steinhoff about the Spanish film market