Tue, 20 June, 6.30 pm

UN FILM DRAMATIQUE

Éric Baudelaire took his time: He spent four years working on this project with twenty pupils in Saint Denis, a suburb in the north of Paris. The pupils were not to be the subject of the film, but subjects themselves. With the still slightly inhibited enthusiasm of the beginning, they set off in search of the specificity of their film. What do we do together if it is neither a documentary nor fiction? The group sets out to find a cinematic form that does justice to the uniqueness of each person, but also of their group. Four years: enough time to see the young people grow, to perceive how their voices change, how the school material flows into their conversations and how events like the Bataclan terrorist attacks shake their lives. The young people grow with the film, and the film grows with them. Éric Baudelaire follows the idea of "Fukei-ron", the landscape theory of the Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi: What can a camera filming a landscape tell us about the social and political structures of a certain place at a certain time? And can we understand someone better if we take in their view? We show the film in the context of our community project "Beau comme un Buren mais plus loin".