In an allegorical landscape, the film was shot in May 2025 in Puglia, Italy. With Camille Vivier behind the camera, delicate people becomes a new visual crossing within the project initiated by Ruth Childs and Cécile Bouffard in 2021. Here, the photographer’s gaze converges with dance and sculpture. The respective practices dissolve into one another. Cécile Bouffard’s sculptural work invites gesture: a contour calls for a grasp, a touch; a curve invites a caress. Ruth Childs responds with intuition and affect, describing this sensation as a ‘graphic engine.’ This passage through gestures and movements has visibly generated narratives sustained by shared impulses. The term ‘delicate’ refers as much to the figures evoked—the hermit, the outsider, the eccentric, the being who exists ‘beyond the norm’—as it does to the very process of collaboration in which they found themselves

British-American dancer and choreographer Ruth Childs was born in 1984 in London. She grew up in the United States where she studied dance and music. In 2003 she moved to Geneva to finish her dance training with the Ballet Junior de Genève. Following this, she started working with many choreographers and directors including Foofwa d’Imobilité, La Ribot, Gilles Jobin, Massimo Furlan, Marco Berrettini and Yasmine Hugonnet. Since 2015, she is also working on a re-creation and revival project of the early works of her aunt, the American choreographer Lucinda Childs.
In 2014 she founded her company Scarlett’s to develop her own work through dance, performance, and music. Scarlett’s favours intimate and collaborative artistic processes, cultivating intuition and the indefinable. In 2016 the state of Geneva awarded her a scholarship and research residency in Berlin of 6 months to develop her own work.
Her first stage piece in collaboration with Stéphane Vecchione, The Goldfish and the Inner Tube, premiered in April 2018. She then creates fantasia, her first solo at the ADC, Geneva in October 2019. Then in 2021 she receives a scholarship from the Centre culturel suisse. Paris and La Becque (La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland) to collaborate with Cécile Bouffard on a research project called Delicate People. In 2022 she creates her second solo Blast! at the Pavillon ADC during the Bâtie festival in Geneva.
Ruth is currently one of the artists in residence at Arsenic in Lausanne and the associated artist at CCN2-Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble (2023-2024.)

Plastician Cécile Bouffard was born in 1987 and lives and works in Paris.
She has had solo exhibitions at the Centre d’art contemporain Les Capucins in Embrun in 2019: ‘Pourquoi marcher quand on peut danser’, at the galerie guadalajara90210 in Mexico City: ‘babosa babosa’, at Rond-Point Projects in Marseille: ‘High by the phlegme’, at La Salle de bains in Lyon in 2022: ‘Basket case’ and at Treize in 2024: ‘Stinky Jade’. She has taken part in group exhibitions, including ‘La fugitive’ at Crédac in 2022, ‘Molinier rose saumon’ at Frac Aquitaine in 2023, ‘Your friends and neighbours’ at Galerie High Art, ‘Hors de la nuit des normes, hors de l’énorme ennui’ at Palais de Tokyo in 2023, ‘L’hymne aux murènes’ at Triangle in 2024 and a duo with ‘Crazy Toads’ at CAC Brétigny in 2023.