ROTTING / LOVING U

14 min, Fiction, Canada, 2025
Directed byLou Scamble
Produced byAzimut Films
LanguageFrench
Short descriptionAfter an accident that confines her to her home, Torte II wanders alone through her decaying apartment. Revisiting the pages of her diary, she relives—violently—what she never dared to say. Desire, sorrow, fear, femininity, illness—emotions surge and blur, blending into chaos, swallowed by an absurd algorithm overwhelmed by too much data.
Film subjects Identity , LGBTQIA+ , Portraits , Women

Film details

Synopsis

After an accident that confines her to her home, Torte II wanders alone through her decaying apartment. Revisiting her diary entries and remembering the ghost of her lover, she relives what she never dared to say. Desire, sorrow, fear, femininity, illness – emotions surge and blur, blending into chaos, swallowed by an absurd algorithm overwhelmed by too much data.

 

Rotting / Loving U is an experimental drama that hijacks an AI mobile app originally programmed to create beauty filters for selfies. The film confronts AI with raw femininity and the film presents images that are nowadays impossible to recreate (as AI is advancing at a frantic pace).

 

Crew

Writing : Lou Scamble

Cinematography : Lou Scamble

Sound Recording : Lou Scamble

Production Design : Lou Scamble

Editing : Xi Feng

Sound Design : Sacha Ratcliffe

Sound Mix : Sacha Ratcliffe, André Ouellette

Starring : Lou Scamble, Nima Pourtolami

Direction

Lou Scamble

Lou Scamble is a transdisciplinary artist based in Montreal. She specializes in staging strange and poetic feminine worlds, exploring themes related to obsession and fantasies shaped by anxiety. Her practice combines photography, writing, sound, and moving images as modes of expression.

 

Filmography

ROTTING / LOVING U, 13 min, Fiction, 2025

L’UNIVERS, 6 min, Fiction, 2019

OPHÉLIE ARRIVERA UN PEU PLUS TARD, 8 min, Fiction, 2018

LA COUR DES MIRAGES, 13 min, Fiction, 2017

LE PROPRIÉTAIRE EST UN TÉLESCOPE, 8 min, Fiction, 2017