Matthieu Bareyre
Pièce d’actualité n°18 Le Journal d’une femme nwar
© Pièce d’actualité n°18 - Le Journal d’une femme nwar, Matthieu Bareyre © Matthieu Bareyre ©
Text, Matthieu Bareyre, Rose-Marie Ayoko Folly and Marion Siéfert
Directed by Matthieu Bareyre
Filming and recording, Matthieu Bareyre
Editing, Matthieu Bareyre, Isabelle Proust, Rodolphe Molla
Assistant director and editor, Houssem Bokhari
Sound editing, Stéphane Rives
Mixing, Jules Wysocki
Calibration, Amine Berrada
Sound effect, André Fèvre
Produced by Marie-José Malis and Frédéric Sacard from La Commune CDN d’Aubervilliers, co-produced by the Festival d’Automne à Paris; Cécile Lestrade and Élise Hug from Alter Ego Production; with support from Arte France, Karen Michael and Fabrice Puchault
Co-directed by La Commune CDN d’Aubervilliers and Festival d’Automne à Paris for screenings at La Commune – CDN Aubervilliers
Rose, 29 years of age, has one goal : leaving France and “going back to Noirie” [Blackland]. When Matthieu Bareyre, one of her closest friends, proposes to make a film with her inspired by her diary, they see it as the perfect opportunity to deal with some old demons of hers...
In April of 2016, Matthieu Bareyre and Rose-Marie Ayoko Folly met on a Parisian place. Back then, Bareyre was shooting L’Époque, his first full-length documentary, with Ayoko Folly playing the central role. Answering La Commune CDN d’Aubervilliers’ invitation to create a play set in present times, Bareyre painted a picture of the young woman, now his friend. The starting point for the movie is Rose’s diaries, which Bareyre read with her consent. Then, the movie attempts to reconcile opposing artistic media: journals vs. conversation; voiceover vs. silent film; direct cinema vs. musical poetry; Scope vs. iPhone. In this endeavor, the movie takes a critical look at modern-day France through the lens of a friendship between a Black woman and a white man.
In the same place
Carte Blanche Dream City
The multi-disciplinary Tunisian festival Dream City is moving to Aubervilliers at the joint invitation of the Festival d'Automne and La Commune, with the shared desire to make this area rustle, resonate and dream through a dozen creations by international performing and visual artists.
Selma & Sofiane Ouissi BIRD
Starting with ordinary everyday gestures such as feeding, living together and getting around, Sofiane Ouissi explores our relationship with birds. Passionate about encounters and the journeys they generate, this time he delves into the relationship with another species.
Visual arts: exhibitions and conversations
Artists Jumana Manna and Sille Storihle, Manthia Diawara, Michael Rakowitz & Robert Chase Heishmans will be in La Commune from 20 to 28 September to present five works and invite you to take part in two conversations.
The works of Nil Yalter will be on display in the public space of Aubervilliers.
Conference by Sophie Bessis Tunisia in the turmoil of populism
After a decade of chaotic but richly experienced democratic apprenticeship, Tunisia found itself plunged into a new cycle of its post-colonial history from 2021 onwards. From that date onwards, Kaïs Saïed, who was democratically elected in 2019, assumed all the powers, transforming a fledgling democracy into an autocracy.
Sammy Baloji Missa Utica
The first black bishop appointed by the Catholic Church should have settled in Utica, Tunisia, but never did. His story is the starting point for Sammy Baloji's work.
Winter Family H2-Hébron
Winter Family is an experimental music and documentary theatre duo founded by Israeli artist Ruth Rosenthal and French musician Xavier Klaine. They play minimal, obsessive, abrasive and political music. They created H2 Hebron, their 3rd show in 2018, a documentary piece in which the transcription of nearly 500 pages of testimonies, their translation, selection and reappropriation by Winter Family are the central element and the main dramaturgical material of the show.
Lina Majdalanie, Rabih Mroué Biokhraphia
These two one-person shows, Biokhraphia et Riding on a cloud, are an investigation into the self-portrait. In Riding on a Cloud, a man called Yasser speaks into a dictaphone, projects videos and broadcasts recordings, whilst expressing reservations about the extent to which these documents coincide with his true self. In Biokhraphia, it is Lina Majdalanie who becomes the subject of a very unusual interview.
Rabih Mroué Riding on a cloud
These two one-person shows, Biokhraphia and Riding on a cloud, are an investigation into the self-portrait. In Riding on a Cloud, a man called Yasser speaks into a dictaphone, projects videos and broadcasts recordings, whilst expressing reservations about the extent to which these documents coincide with his true self. In Biokhraphia, it is Lina Majdalanie who becomes the subject of a very unusual interview.