Mathis Zouma Track Session
5am at the track. No crowd, no commentary — just a sprinter and the sound of spikes on rubber. This portrait follows Mathis Zouma through a full training session in Nice: the warm-up, the work, and the long silence between sets when you can see exactly what it costs.
Mathis is a sprinter who trains like a sprinter — everything in bursts, nothing wasted. There's very little conversation on a track at that hour. You learn to read the body instead: the way the shoulders drop before a good run, the pace of breathing between efforts. The camera has to earn its place.
“The race is ninety metres. The preparation is everything else.”
We were there from the first warm-up lap to the last rep. Long shadows, cold track, the sun coming over the stands too slowly. Some of the best frames came in the recovery moments — the ones that show what the race is built on.
Shot over one morning. No direction, no staging — Mathis ran his session and the camera followed. The film is an edit of what we caught, which turned out to be enough.
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