Cultural Policy: Interview with Régis Sauder, cupboard in charge of opening the Villa Méditérrranée course
White, blue, light and Régis Sauder, relaxed and smiling, refines his collaborators temporary path Mediterranean Villa, 2031 in the Mediterranean, our future! , Offered to the public from June 14
Régis Sauder: There are two years, the production team of the Mediterranean Villa asked to support the opening path in the temporary exhibition space around the Mediterranean looking, posing a scientific committee the basis for specifications. I guarantee a free space creation. Surprised by the magnitude of this proposal, I wondered how I situate ... What interested me was to make an artistic response to content that supports complex issues to go to meet people, without making a speech expert, nor encyclopedic. The link was also made with Bruno Ulmer who had worked on mobility in Beyond the horizon. cupboard I worked with him in Morocco.
During the first year, I wrote the script. I did not want CGI pretext that it was in prospecting: I can shoot this, traces of the past but not the future. So I called Benoit. The future can draw it, we are in Utopia.
To talk about the future, we need young people who live in the Mediterranean. So I set up a workshop and chose the Lycée St Exupéry, facing the sea for several months, I showed a second class of films and discussed their lives. They were offered dance, drawing keeping in mind this central idea: we are in a public building, supported by a political discourse place is yours, is ours and this project cupboard we will do it together . After a few months, the validated proposal, it was ready to use tools, cinema and drawing with Benoit as a public artist. Benoit came with a small table and a glass plate on which was fixed a camera layer and a system of shots designed with young people. From outline to mention, it would put in pictures their dreams, utopias and fears. They told Benoit and drawing, and sometimes they drew themselves. We started with something very simple: draw the Mediterranean. This workshop was established in Izmir, Turkey, Tunis and French school in Beirut with Palestinian youth camp Sabra. Young Marseilles, they were gathered in Corsica residence.
Yes. In terms of production, it was a bit heavy, especially in Beirut's cupboard Sabra camp. Executive production was entrusted to Films du Tambour de Soie. In our journey around the Mediterranean it became a map drawn by a young Palestinian or Turkish boy, this has nothing to do! After that, we worked on two posts; myself, filming in the dialogue, and Benoit, from the map, resumed the hand and drew ... A young Tunisian example sees the Mediterranean as a giant box keeps ... All these designs are mental images and representations of non-naturalistic fantasy Mediterranean, often very distressing.
After writing the scenario, I wanted to develop four specific themes and meeting space. The designer Bruno Badiche proposed to immerse the viewer in the pictures. Very quickly, we agreed on four units around four themes with a reception area: identity, cupboard ecology, political commitment cupboard at large, and a box where you made a proposal for the future, a box of meeting all these young people. Throughout the workshop was reflected in a slogan for the future; cupboard Benoit is also a poster and at the end of the residency, we proposed them to make a poster with the blue pigment which is the link in the scenography . Found in box 4 all posters that are somehow obvious.
Completely. Time is quite short, everything went through the line. It arrived quickly to intimacy. I always try to set this in my film, which is not in the speech, it is manufacturer all things emerge. There, it was by design. Older, twenty, were the first proposal a bit naive, but eventually it worked very well because we put images on their performances, and they were amazed of the effect!
They were between 15 and 20 years. What interested me was the lack of social homogeneity. In Turkey, they came from a privileged background, a French lycee in Beirut, Sabra youth were poor, in Tunis, they were older, enrolled in a dynamic commitment and Marseille, the class was socially mixed. Quan
