Manifesta 13 Marseille

Since the beginning of their activities in Marseille, the filmmakers of the Film flamme collective have developed creative workshops and consider the cinema as a gesture of sharing between an author, a team and the general public. The knowledge related to this sharing is not transmitted and cannot be learnt but is built. They set up a film workshop with the inhabitants of the Quartier du Panier, the historic centre of Marseille, and did not realise at the time that they had just initiated a unique approach; a long-term project made up of a number of films which currently make up a monumental collective film entitled La subtile mémoire des humains du rivage (The subtle memory of the shoreline humans). The film includes films made by the inhabitants of Marseille over a period of nearly twenty years. The aim here is to renew the gestures initiated by popular education, exchange and freedom invented in the collective creation process. The completed work stems from an almost immediate gesture (a highly personal one too, due to the small size of the 16 mm Bell Howell camera, or an A-Minima in the future) and is filmed in just a few hours in the neighbourhood with no other project (no screenplay) than to be there, to be present at that moment in time and to watch. A collective and anonymous work, La subtile mémoire des humains du rivage is enhanced with each successive production.

FILM FLAMME – THE POLYGONE ÉTOILÉ

Film flamme is an association of filmmakers and artists created in 1996 in Marseille. In 2001, the collective created the Polygone Etoilé, a cinema in the Quartier de la Joliette. The venue offers a technical infrastructure dedicated to film-making with a projection room and a cosy area upstairs for regular meetings and debates. From the start, the collective has been developing creative workshops.

Olivier Derousseau

Olivier Derousseau is a social worker, technician and filmmaker; member of the Encore Heureux… collective. His recent film Northern Range has been presented at the International Film Festival Marseille, which received a special mention at the international competition. Olivier pursues with Stéphanie Béghain and Marc Pérènnes a long process of research and creation on the work of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The result of this research will be presented at the theater in Gennevilliers in May 2021.