Four years in a Pâquis class, camera in hand, that’s Séverine Barde’s challenge. The result is an immersive, unfiltered film that shows the reality of the first school years.
“An interesting cocoon to observe the first steps”, this is how the Geneva director Séverine Barde perceives this Pâquis classroom where she set up her camera for four years. The film has been showing since November 6 at the Nord-Sud cinema and at Scala and retraces these moments so dear to every child and which, in one way or another, resonate in every adult.
In this project, Séverine Barde says she tried to detect “those moments when we grow up”. For her, the film was built “on details that belong to us all. It’s the first time as a little human being that we find ourselves without our parents, among ourselves, with all this difficulty of entering this mini-society and learning” describes the director.
A daily life spanning several years, total immersion, but which doesn’t look like reality TV. “We very quickly became part of the class, of the furniture,” explains Séverine Barde. The raw rendering, a little less than two hours, can be watched by everyone according to the director because “we stay with this child’s heart” whatever the situation.
