2002, North Carolina. Teenagers recall the investigation into the mysterious fainting of high school cheerleaders.
Somewhere in-between an episode of Twin Peaks and the music video for Nada Surf’s one-hit wonder “Popular,” actress Lilith Grasmug’s first short film is an American pastiche that reconstructs, from YouTube found footage and the (of course, fictional) testimonies of her classmates, the life of an uncanny valley girl – popular, smart, the archetypally pretty girl, yet surrounded by an impenetrable aura of mystery, a certain inexplicable darkness. Just as Eva’s character defies any kind of simple categorisation, so is the film dedicated to her idiosyncratic, allowing for both a sarcastic reading of American (narrative) stereotypes and their grip onto global cinematic vernacular, and a bittersweet one, whose nostalgia seems to be directed at those simpler days of high school, when we used to consume simpler narratives, or at least what we used to deem as such. (Flavia Dima)
Lilith Grasmug is an Austrian actress based in Paris. She began her career in 2017 starring in Virgil Vernier’s feature ‘Sophia Antipolis’. She is known for appearing in Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s ‘Bloody Oranges’ (2021), Carmen Jaquier’s ‘Thunder’ (2022) and Claire Burger’s ‘Langue étrangère’ (2024). She is currently doing a master’s degree in contemporary art research at La Sorbonne after a spell at the ECAL art school in Lausanne. ‘Some of You Fucked Eva’ is her first short film as a director.
Director, producer, screenwriter : Lilith Grasmug
DOP : Lucas Minier
Editor : Benjamin Goubet
Sound editor and mix : Coppelia Robert
