IMVT • Ciné-Débat • A screening from the stands • Thursday January 16, 2025 • 6:00 p.m. • Amphi 250

Echoing the exhibition Performancethe Marseille Photographic Center, in partnership with ensa•m, is offering a screening evening on Thursday January 16, 2025 from 6 p.m. amphi 250

Registration required: https://form.jotform.com/243453854956368

The program will begin with a film of Yassine Boussaadoun and a time to exchange with the artist; followed by 4 films from the order “From the stands” and a discussion with the teacher and programmer Nicolas Feodoroff.

Launched in 2022 by the National Center for Visual Arts (Cnap), in partnership with the national image education association The archipelago of firefliesthe order “From the stands” invited artist authors working in the field of animated images to tackle the theme of sport, with particular attention paid to its societal dimensions. The winners Cecilia De Arce, Ludivine Large-Bessette, Marion Lasserre et Esther Megard each proposed and produced a project linked to a territory and sports equipment, its specific setting, its ecosystem and its off-field environment.

PROGRAMMING

Yassine Boussaadoun (La Seyne sur mer, 1989)
Departmental sneezing championship2024
From the series The Cinemate(c), 2021/2024
Video performance 16:9 – 23’04”
Collection of the National Center for Visual Arts

What if all my subjects were just background simulations? Asks the artist and high-level athlete, Yassine Boussaadoun. During the Covid 19 epidemic, unable to perform in public spaces, he designed and produced “imaginary sports”. These short films take up the familiar and entertaining aesthetic of television spectator sports. Credits, graphic and sound design, banners, federation logos and color codes, voice-over comments, everything is there, but the crazy actions that take place within this system shake up established forms. Their names announce the nature of the performances: Cuckoo Marathon, Unusual Object Relay, Poets’ Tour, Departmental Sneezing Championship.

Cecilia de Arce (Toulouse, 1993)
Level zero – History of losers in sport, 2023
Video, color, sound – 24’33”
Collection of the National Center for Visual Arts

How do we train our eyes to judge a body, to find it attractive, or at least admirable, when it is in motion? How can we detach sporting practice from sexualization and the injunction to performance? More in general: how can we make sport a “neutral” practice, the equivalent of an action like “eating” or “drinking”? To try to answer these questions, Cecilia de Arce took over a locker room at the Cadets de Bretagne in Rennes, transforming it into a “museum of sports trauma”. She uses this space to welcome and meet people who, like her, have experienced a feeling of exclusion and marginality during their lives, in relation to their relationship to physical and sporting activity, and thus constitute a kind of community, giving everyone the opportunity to reveal themselves and build a story about them and with them.
“For the weak, the slow, the flexible, the fragile, the cozy and the overly cautious. for those accustomed to side stitches, subscribers to thighs that rub, sweat that blurs the vision, red skin or pale complexion, shortness of breath and retching” specifies the artist.

Ludivine Large-Bessette (Fontainebleau, 1987)
Hold the line2024
Video, color, sound – 18′
Carried out at the André Pétrieux velodrome, Roubaix (North, Hauts-de-France)

“This film deals with the injunction to performance through sport. By mixing running, dancing, as well as a monologue written in collaboration with young people from Roubaix about their own experiences with the injunctions that surround them, this project digs into all the ambivalence and difficulty of our obsession with efficiency. » Thus, the artist describes the writing protocol which prevailed at the origin of the project.
Holding the Line is a long sequence shot of a young woman running in a choreographed manner and delivering a monologue with multiple voices, constructed from testimonies from young men about the difficulty of the expectations and stereotypes expected of them.
Unachievable performance gives way to sensitivity, humility, individual difficulties and specificities which are agitated in this impossible-to-satisfy mold. The first injunction to complete a performance transforms into something else: a pleasure in taking one’s place, the discovery of being able to construct one’s own singular course and assert one’s complexity.

Marion Laserre (Suresnes, 1993)
Body2023-2024
Video, color, sound (loop) – 4’5”
Collection of the National Center for Visual Arts

Body is an experimental 3D short film that evolves according to the athletes’ daily training. The work takes the form of a visually and aurally immersive 3D film, using images, colors, sounds and sequences derived from biometric sensors and training data from athletes at the Thiêu Lâm martial arts center, in Blagnac. Décorps explores the relationship between physical activity, mathematical practice and the transformation of data into a sensory cinematic experience. To do this, the project proposes to extract data from the daily training of athletes using biometric sensors and transform them into material that can be used for the creation of a film: through movement sensors: movements athletes transcribed in 3D animation, respiratory rate sensors for sound. EEG (electrical brain activity) headsets for editing, and a thermal camera for calibration.

Esther Megard (Paris, 1986)
On the wire2023-2024
Video, color, sound – 14′
Carried out at the “Don’t Panik Team” boxing club, Le Havre (Seine-Maritime, Normandy)
Collection of the National Center for Visual Arts

On the wire tells the intimate life of an English boxing club in Le Havre, through images created with embroidery then animated by stop motion editing, to which are added the sounds, noises and voices of the athletes. who frequent the place daily and provide their testimony. The artist thus uses the meticulous and soft aspect of the fabric and the gesture of embroidering images by hand to activate

The Marseille Photographic Center

The Marseille Photographic Center (CPM), supported by the association Les Ateliers de l’Image, is a place entirely dedicated to contemporary photography. Its purpose is display, experimentation, sharing, discovery, education, entertainment, as well as supporting the public in their discovery of photography and helping to develop initiatives around this field.

The Ateliers de l’Image have been offering artistic and educational activities in Marseille and its surrounding areas for many years. Established in the heart of the Panier district for 22 years, the association has relied on regular work with local and international artists to develop artistic actions accessible to the general public around contemporary photography.

The CPM draws on the numerous actions already undertaken by the association and responds to a growing need in a city which is experiencing a renewed interest in photography by offering a multitude of initiatives which aim to support creation in all its forms. forms: Night of the moment, Polyptych, Common Heritage, Pytheas. Through the multiplicity and consistency of its actions, the CPM contributes to the influence of the work of photographer artists in the region and to their professionalization.

Supported and financed by the city of Marseille, the Bouches-du-Rhône Department, the South Alpes-Provence-Côte d’Azur region, the Ministry of Culture and occasionally by private sponsorship and its own actions, the CPM places support for artists and creation as well as image education as its priority. By paying particular attention to the artist’s approach, the Center also tends to present multiple points of view, practices and original works of art.