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film and video art
Duration: 00:10:33
A young high school student discovers that shards of glass are growing on his body. Hoping to get closer to his girlfriend, he will do everything he can to get rid of this strange mutation…
DIRECTOR, WRITER : Pablo Cabel
CONTACTS / LINKS : @pablo_cabel
Director’s statement
For a long time, romantic relationships seemed to me to revolve around a contradiction: wanting to be close to the person I desired while keeping my distance out of fear of being hurt… Schopenhauer described this dilemma by comparing us to hedgehogs who, in order to survive the cold of winter, must huddle together at the risk of injuring each other with their quills.
This image, combined with my own experience, sparked in me a desire to make cinema. That is where my passion for body horror led me to consider the following question: what if a teenager discovered that their body was covered in shards of glass? This question became the starting point for Chair Adolescente.
With this film, I want to portray adolescence as a period of instability in which our bodies, our self-images, and our identities change and slip beyond our control.
I envision Chair Adolescente as a disturbing film. The goal is not to shock gratuitously, but to challenge the audience. This will come through the depiction of the reality of adolescence, both violent and tender at once. The juxtaposition of intense, violent moments with others that are more delicate and sensitive will, I hope, create a striking contrast that resonates with everyone’s personal experience.
Bio
In 2020, after completing a Master’s degree in Film and gaining several theatrical experiences as an actor and assistant director, Pablo Cabel wrote a historical and musical podcast serie titled Once Upon a Time in Czechoslovakia, which later won France Culture’s “Le Podcast des Profs” competition. In 2023, he co-directed the short film The Disposables with his brother Hector Cabel and in 2025, he directed a second short film, Shard, selected for the Nouveaux Rêves Festival. Today, Pablo works as a script reader for the production company Nord-Ouest and is developing new podcast, short film, and feature film projects.
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Pebbles Underground is focused on showcasing and promoting experimental, avant-garde, underground, and no-to-low budget projects by artist-humans from all over the world. Absurd, uncanny, witty, humorous, slow-video – all are welcomed, and loved. Pebbles Underground is an independent project not funded by any government or corporation, and we intend to keep it that way. Main source of funding is personal donations from humans organizing the project, who are artists themselves, and the main drive of the project is formed by the energy and involvement of the organizers, and the public.