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House Without a Key is the second short film by Marta Skoczeń. Shot on HDV, it unites images shot in Paris and in the Polish countryside. Coumba-Joanna Wone, theatre actress, embodies a female character locked up in a closed space. The space is voluntarily undefined, leaving the subject a possibility to leave. In the short film the artist creates a portrait of a woman faced with confinement, torn between her desire for freedom and her obligations. By analogy, the film evokes a reflection on femininity, by getting in the intimacy of a young woman in the middle of an internal battle between her obligations, linked to the materiality of the house which imprisons her, and her desire for emancipation.

Milena Chevillard, 2020

Coumba-Joanna Wone (born in 1994 in Paris) is a French actress and show manager of Senegalese-Malian origin. Her passion for theater and cinema goes back to her childhood, through the musical that she started at 8 years old. Her main influences are classic Greek theater and contemporary British theater (Sarah Kane, Dennis Kelly, Martin Crimp). She has worked on creations and covers at the conservatory of the 9th arrondissement, has collaborated with the company of Mal accompagné.e.s, and is currently developing projects related to theater and music. She also aims to open her own theater while continuing to perform on stage and in front of the camera.