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Nicolas Plommee
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June 25, 2024 at 5:37 p.m.
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One year after filming in June 2023, #Exo61, 360° immersive film lasting 90 minutes, divided into quarter-hour episodesis projected continuously on Wednesday June 26, all afternoon, Place de la Paix in the district of Perseigne in Alençon (Orne), under a inflatable dome 9 meters in diameter for a capacity limited to 50 spectators.
Fantastic encounters
One of the directors, Frédéric Deslias, head of the Caen company Le Clair Obscur, a “dystopian laboratory at the crossroads of arts, sciences and technologies”, nevertheless seems to have his feet firmly on the ground. Artist associated with Scène nationale 61 (Snat61) in 2018 for the theatrical show The Furtiveshe, in 2019, achieved a docu-fiction of the same type in Bellou-en-Houlme, near Briouze, as part of the Rural Territory system.
But it was then a commune in the department of just over a thousand inhabitants. Not much to do a priori with “the so-called worst district of Alençon, where I met fantastic people and some of whom became friends”, specifies Frédéric Deslias. To film on location, he and his accomplices, the former journalist Cathy Blisson, Mathilde Gentil, Leo Kekemenis, Paul-Émile Skler, the documentary filmmaker Wahel Sghaier and the actor Pierre Mignard in the role of the astronaut in distress, had to Firstly, he was able to gain acceptance from the locals. A wanted notice about a astronaut lost in the neighborhood made it possible to identify people sensitive to such imagination.
The false of the true
The original project, carried out by the City, the Regional Directorate for Cultural Affairs (Drac), Snat61 and the Paul-Gauguin cultural center in Perseigne, first anchored on the Pascal Tower, has been extended to the entire district , from its allotments to its surrounding undergrowth without forgetting the abandoned velodrome. So many places (re)discovered by our astronaut when meeting some of the inhabitants of Perseigne. If the film never forgets to give voice to those who do not usually have it, it remains for the viewer to determine the border between reality and fiction.
Wednesday June 26, 2024 Place de la Paix in Perseigne: from 2 p.m., free entry subject to availability. A barbecue is planned on the square.
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