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The Via Crucis of Camille - Crux 1 - The Princess

The story of Camille's training to the cross.

The first session of The Via Crucis of Camille took place soon after they returned from New York.

The set was going to be their bedroom and to do this they had Edmundo, the jack of all trades who was working for JJ and his family for many years, to set up a wooden post in the middle of the room.

That would be their cross, from which Camille would hang over, and over again for the next two years.

The work would consist of two basic elements, the scourging and the crucifixion.

That's all that was necessary. The idea was to find the best way to represent this.

Camille had the mission of becoming the expression of the body in pain in a crucifixion.

Camille's version of the events

For our first seesion I had to become one of two characters at some point and for this JJ told me their background story. But that was not the only intention of this exercise. The other intention was more graphic.

While I had to have everything well thought out in my head, I also had to have the movements worked out. We were going to explore the graphic possibilities of a crucifixion and in great detail, so as to capture it in images.

There are so many possibilities, JJ warned me, that it wasn't going to be simple, in fact, he expected it to be hard, a lot harder than what we did before.

The idea was to achieve excelent takes, we were going to try to be as proffessional as the conditions in which we were going to work would allow. No excuses this time.

In film an action is divided into its small parts which are called takes. A scene is made of many of these takes. How many takes build a scene will depend on the intention of the director.

We were going to concentrate on four or so for each scene. We were going to make a lineal sequence of the painful process of scourging, nailing and hanging on the cross.

After our first session we did it again and again, we ended up doing ten session.

We never expected to do as many sessions as we did. We wanted to make one, study it, erase it and forget all about it. But as our experience grew in intensity, the tapes grew in quality, my performance became more realistic.

There was no way we were going to erase these tapes.

This passion translated not only in our physical love, but in a bond that goes beyond sex. One that lives today in its full dimension. So this is also a love story. We were already in love, we had already been together for a couple of years, we made a film and a mini-series, we travelled together to Europe, we made love in the beaches of Alicante and on the train... on the route from Kholn to Zurich or from Rome to Firenze .. or from Paris to Madrid.... and everywhere in between. The Railways of Europe were our moving bed.

He left me in France for a few months so I could take my bac exams. When I left France later that year I had changed. We were no longer the same couple. This was painful for both. We put that pain into our lives and into our work. We were loving each other, we were bonding, and we were breaking up.

The conflict of the young woman against her father, became the conflict of Camille against her lover and father figure. All of a sudden I was growing up again. I had jumped from a silly teenager to a woman leaving something not explored in the process.

This need to go back to a process I jumped over came to haunt me.

One day I was living with my mother, the next I was living with my lover.... one day I was a dependant in the houshold, the next I was the woman of the house, with servants, a man in my bed every night and a budget to administer. My mother was coming to me for advise, and I became her mother figure... she became my daughter.

And that was not all. From being a student I jumped to be a proffessional who appeared in TV guides and newspapers and television.

I lived like that for more than two years... and then Bang! .... I wanted to be a teenager all over again.. I wanted to party, act irresponsibly, go to raves and meet guys and more guys.... It was with this desire for freedom that I began to build the character that would end on the cross over and over again.

I conquered my independence, I reached the freedom I was looking for, but that happened much later.

During those days I was living my via crucis Both inside and out..

There's a chapter to this story that comes before this session, my last crucifixion in the tropics. The last time where we were still trying out scenarios innocently. Where I had still not told JJ that I wanted out. That I had found another me who wanted more of life, that wanted to learn and live her age.

The day after we made that last session in the tropics, we were walking on the dirt road under the terribly hot sun. I was wearing this very sexy jeans with holes around my ass... and JJ was very happy because we made love like mad beasts... When we were on that dirt road I told him what I had wanted to tell him for a couple of months now, that I wanted out of our relationship..

He thought he was going to die. That day my via crucis began.

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