The long dossier of the Triangle de Gonesse is this time on the big screen. This Saturday at 4 p.m., the Jacques Prévert cinema in Gonesse is offering the public the opportunity to discover, for the first time in the city, “Paris countryside, triangular landscapes”, a feature film devoted to the subject directed by Catherine Radosa. It’s been seven years, her daughter’s age, that this Franco-Czech artist has been filming the Triangle and its agricultural land on which a station for line 17 of the Paris Express or even an International School City is to be built.
“In my work, I talk about landscapes, public space and its use, so as soon as I discovered the history of the Triangle through the press in 2017, I became interested in it,” says Catherine Radosa who has been there, over the years, “at least a hundred times”. The latter, who does not hide that for her this land urbanization project “is a bad idea”, has thus followed many stages of this saga which began in the 2000s.
From the announcement of the State’s abandonment of the EuropaCity shopping and leisure megacomplex in 2019, to the ephemeral ZAD set up in 2021 by opponents of land artificialization as part of their long struggle, including the visit to the site the same year by Jean Castex, Prime Minister at the time, for the announcement of the “Val-d’Oise Plan”. A moment that the director, “blocked very far away by the police” at the time, was unable to capture.
The film followed by a debate with Mayor Jean-Pierre Blazy
With a concept: the film continues to evolve over the news from the Triangle and new images captured by the artist. The version this Saturday in Gonesse, around 1h15 out of hundreds of hours of rush, is therefore different from those previously presented in other cities. “I am joining the mobilization of September 29,” underlines Catherine Radosa, still editing this Wednesday, in reference to the latest demonstration by opponents of the Collective for the Triangle de Gonesse (CPTG).
How long will she continue filming? “For now, I don’t know. I will see how I feel about things but this long time is consistent with the subject and in view of the ecological necessity. My artistic investment also echoes the investment of activists,” replies the artist specializing in “immersions in time”.
A screening followed by a debate with Jean-Pierre Blazy, mayor of Gonesse and fervent defender of the Triangle development project. » The forty-year-old hopes that her film “will be able to produce a different, more peaceful dialogue, shifting the gaze a little through cinema and aesthetics”.
This Saturday at 4 p.m., Place Aimé Césaire in Gonesse. Prices from 2.5 to 3€.
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