Jerome Clement-Wilz’s “Ceci est mon corps”: A Journal of Reconstruction
Abused by a priest during his childhood, Jérôme Clément-Wilz decides, after years, to file a complaint against him. Constructed as an intimate journal, “this is My Body” recounts the directorS journey through the justice system and with his family. A brave and necessary documentary.
Talented and unique director, Jérôme Clément-Wilz has been interested in numerous themes throughout his professional career: nightlife, desires for elsewhere, alcoholism, the Arab Spring, love encounters, or even sexual practices around the world. Always with this desire to film reality, while adding a touch of magic to it.
Today, the former resident of the Villa Médicis in Rome returns with a powerful film. “This is My Body” is a first-person documentary in which the French forty-year-old recounts how he was abused by Olivier de Scitivaux de Greische, a priest from the diocese of Orléans, when he was a child. Once the complaint was filed, Jérôme Clément-Wilz picked up his camera in 2018 and filmed for six years his meetings with lawyers, his research in family archives, the place where he suffered repeated assaults by the priest, but also the denial of his parents and the culture of silence shared by an entire community.
A cathartic approach
From the beginning there is this desire to reconstruct the puzzle of memories of a childhood shattered by the trauma of sexual violence.”I had already forgotten so much of my childhood, and especially the violence I had suffered, that I…
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