FRA - NUIT AMERICAINE HOMMAGE AUX CINEMAS PARISIENS
Ecran noir pour les cinemas francais le 14 mars 2020?
Exactement 100 jours plus tard, le 22 juin 2020, les epopees de princes magyars, le parcours chaotique de Dounia ou encore les aventures d agents secrets un brin seducteurs peuvent a nouveau nous faire trembler, vibrer, rire ou pleurer dans les salles obscures.
Le cinema nous a accompagne pendant ce confinement, il nous a meme aide en nous permettant de nous echapper de notre quotidien anxiogene. Il a ete salutaire pour occuper les enfants. Merci France 2 pour ces apres-midis passes devant des classiques du cinema francais, merci Arte d avoir rediffuse l ovni « Down by Law » de Jim Jarmusch, merci aux festivals de cinema qui ont diffuses leur selection en streaming.
Mais l experience du cinema ne se fait pas que sur un ecran de 55 pouces tout aussi retroeclaire soit-il ! Cine rime avec « sortez » ! On sort au cinema, c est a la fois un art et un lieu.
A travers cette serie realisee a la veille de la reouverture des cinemas, j ai voulu mettre en avant les salles parisiennes. Il y a celle devant laquelle on est souvent passe sans jamais y entrer, celle devant laquelle on a attendu nerveusement lors des premiers rendez-vous, celle ou on a vu le dernier Star Wars?
La serie s intitule «
Nuit Americaine », comme la technique cinematographique qui permet de tourner en plein jour des scenes en exterieur censees se derouler la nuit. Le cinema est une fiction, tout comme ces photos ou il ne faut pas chercher a reconstruire une realite. Il faut se laisser happer devant ces beaux lieux que sont les cinemas et s imaginer les scenes en train de s y jouer.
FRA - NUIT AMERICAINE HOMMAGE AUX CINEMAS PARISIENS
Black screen for French cinemas on March 14, 2020...
Exactly 100 days later, on June 22, 2020, the epics of Magyar princes, the chaotic journey of Dounia or the adventures of secret agents a little seductive can once again make us tremble, vibrate, laugh or cry in the dark rooms.
Cinema has accompanied us during this confinement, it has even helped us by allowing us to escape from our anxiety-provoking daily life. It has been salutary in keeping the children occupied. Thank you France 2 for these afternoons spent in front of classics of French cinema, thank you Arte for having rebroadcast Jim Jarmusch's UFO "Down by Law", thank you to the film festivals that broadcast their selection in streaming.
But the cinema experience is not only on a 55-inch screen, however backlit it may be! Cinema rhymes with "get out"! Going out to the cinema is both an art and a place.
Through this series made on the eve of the reopening of the cinemas, I wanted to highlight the Parisian theatres. There's the one we've often passed by without ever entering, the one we waited in front of nervously during our first dates, the one where we saw the latest Star Wars...
The series is called "
American Night", like the cinematic technique that allows to shoot outdoor scenes in the daytime that are supposed to take place at night. Cinema is a fiction, just like these photos, where you don't have to try to reconstruct a reality. You have to let yourself be caught in front of these beautiful places that are the cinemas and imagine the scenes being played there.
