It is a cultural resource. Since 2018, in Montaigu, in Vendée, it has been collecting materials from shows, festivals, events and offering them for rental or sale to ensure their reuse. The objective is to make culture eco-responsible. Recently, this resource center even recovered materials arriving from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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That day, Olivier Berne, fiction producer at Main Films, came to Montaigu to do his shopping. Somewhat unusual shopping since it involves obtaining decorations to recreate an apartment from the 70s.
He found what he was looking for in a materials resource store. Sets that had already been used in a Franco-British series.
“It’s already weathered, that’s what makes it real. That’s the whole point of working with second-hand products” he said.
And then, renting recycled elements is cheaper than having new decorations made with new materials. For Olivier, coming to the Ressourcerie Culturelle for supplies has become a reflex.
Created in 2018, this place aims to avoid waste in cultural productions in Pays de la Loire, whether cinema, theater, but also museums… all cultural actors.
“We can create a circular economy by recovering to recreate something behind, explains Damien Forget, the founder and today coordinator of Ressourcerie Culturelle. We try to offer a sheet rental service (elements) decor, Customers rent the decor sheets, they redo the color they want, the shades they want and (after use) They bring us back the decor sheet. We hope to have ten production lives on it!”
It’s a revolution in this profession which, sometimes, sets are made for just one day.
Damien Forget also tries to send messages to set builders so that they are concerned about the materials they use.
“We have expertise in reuse, he wants to clarify. They are told to stop working with the medium (composed of compressed and glued wood fibers). For people who work with the medium, it’s super disgusting, it’s full of glue, it causes cancer everywhere. On the other hand, we can work with plywood, assemblies that will avoid glue.”
Subsidized by Ademe and the Pays de la Loire Region, the cultural resource center which employs five employees, is still in experimental mode and is testing products to find out which ones are the most interesting in recycling.
“We have just collected around 40 tonnes of Olympic materials, wood, PVC”shows Mylène Dufaut, communications and marketing manager at Ressourcerie Culturelle. Materials arriving from the 11 main Games venues.
Mylène Dufaut, from cultural recycling, in front of materials from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
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“The wood will be used to construct sets and spaces, she explains. He has a new possible life. To do this, simply take it to the workshop. We are going to remove the metal parts, the screws, we are going to restandardize the formats. The goal is that in the end, it looks like new materials that can be used to rebuild new sets. It’ll save them from the dumpster.”
The resource center is open to professionals by appointment and with free access every Friday.
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