200040 minDocumentary
Le Piège de Kerguelen
The Kerguelen Trap
In 1772 the navigator Yves de Kerguelen came upon an archipelago in the far south of the Indian Ocean. “These isles are a fearsome trap,” he wrote in his log; all he left there were the few cats he had on board. Two centuries later the scientists of the Popchat mission land on Kerguelen to trap the cats, which have gone wild, and to see how they have adapted to the freezing climate. But who is observing whom?
Press
- 2022A decoyMarc-Emmanuel Mélon, The Mise en Scène of the Real, Yellow Now, provisional translation · PDF ↗
Photographs
Technical sheet
- Title
- Le Piège de Kerguelen
- Year
- 2000
- Runtime
- 40 min
- Countries
- Belgium, France
- Languages
- French, English
- Production
- Asap, with Dada Studios
- Availability
- DVD Heure Exquise! · on request
- Versions
- Shot during the southern voyage of 1998–99 (Mélon 2022, p. 157) and completed in 2000; registered in 1998 at the Clermont-Ferrand film market. 40′ in the credits published in Mélon 2022; 37′ on the Heure Exquise! DVD.
- Direction
- Rob Rombout
- Assistant director
- Rogier van Eck
- Image
- Samuel Dravet
- Sound
- Griet van Reeth
- Editing
- Adriana Moreira de Oliveira
- Music
- Hughes Maréchal
- Voices
- Pascal Perez, Rob Rombout, Christian Janssens
Prizes
- 2000Special award, Man and Sea festival, Vladivostok








