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The Glass Fortress (film)
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The Glass Fortress is a 2016 French science fiction short film directed by Alain Bourret. The film presents a world of harmony and conformity within a united scientific-progressivist state. The film is based on the 1921 novel We by the Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin and is related to (a classic 1982 German film), La Jetée<ref name"CW-20160429" /> (a classic 1962 French photomontage film), 12 Monkeys (a very popular classic 1995 American film by director Terry Gilliam) and to THX 1138<ref name"CW-20160429" /> (a 1971 American film by director George Lucas). Plot One thousand years after the One State's conquest of the entire world, the spaceship Integral is being built in order to invade and conquer extraterrestrial planets. Meanwhile, the project's chief engineer, D-503, begins a journal that he intends to be carried upon the completed spaceship.<ref name="SF-20160606" /> Cast * Alain Bourret (as Alan B) as Narrator * Pierre-Antoine Piter as D-503/Daniel * Amélie De Swarte as I-330/Iris * Julien Prost as The Well-Doer * Alexandre Bourret as The Spokesman * Axel Bourret as The Assistant Engineer * Axel Bourret as The Doctor * Fanny Storck as The Nurse Reception The Glass Fortress is an experimental film that employs a technique known as freeze frame, and is shot in black-and-white, which help support the grim atmosphere of the story's dystopian society.<ref name"SF-20160606" /> The film is technically similar to La Jetée (1963), directed by Chris Marker, and refers somewhat to THX 1138 (1971), by George Lucas, in the "religious appearance of the Well Doer".<ref name"CW-20160429" /> According to film critic Isabelle Arnaud, The Glass Fortress has a special atmosphere underlining a story of thwarted love that will be long remembered.<ref name="UF-2018" /> According to Alain Bourret, director of the film, "From the beginning, I wanted to put my work more in an academic setting than in the world of cinema. In form, the work was of the traditional type, with only two concessions to the digital one: the shooting and the video editing. Beforehand, I approached and contacted many universities, so that my adaptation is now enrolled in the curriculum of Czech, English and American universities."<ref name"AL-20160627" /> Bourret continues, "What increases the uniqueness of The Glass Fortress is that the actors did not know my adaptation at all, let alone the script. On screen, they all had an expression of lost beings, they roam like ghosts. This is the message I wanted to convey, that of a lost being, D-503, in a newly acquired freedom and the progressive awakening of his conscience."<ref name"AL-20160627" /> 
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