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.
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Carte Blanche Dream City
The Festival d'Automne gives Carte Blanche to the multidisciplinary Dream City festival in Tunis, which inaugurates the Commune's first Pavilion. Spanning the Medina of Tunis all the way to the town of Aubervilliers, Selma Ouissi, Sofiane Ouissi and Jan Goossens will be making use of artistic creation in the form of a new urban space.
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.
Lina Majdalanie, 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.