Œuvre audiovisuelle artistique et immersive : PRÉMICES
Since July 9, a second section of the exhibition “Marseille 1900-1943. la mauvaise réputation”: PRÉMICES, an immersive and artistic audiovisual creation.
About this event
As part of the exhibition “Marseille 1900-1943. La mauvaise réputation,” on view since February 9, 2024 at the Mémorial des déportations, a new artistic and immersive audiovisual work enriches the exhibition route: PRÉMICES, an ode to the Phocaean city and a lyrical and dreamlike tribute.
The exhibition “Marseille 1900-1943. La mauvaise réputation” examines the roots of a tragedy: the roundups at the Opera and the Old Port, and the destruction of the old neighborhoods in 1943, carried out by the Nazi army with the complicity of the Vichy regime. A crime against humanity that forever changed the face of Marseille.
If everything was not predetermined, the unthinkable was made possible by a sedimentation of representations and an overwhelming imaginary. Marseille was the symbol of political and moral degeneration, an infamous blemish, a ghetto of the poor and foreigners, the embodiment of international crime that had to be erased from the landscape.
PRÉMICES takes a step back from the events and historical analysis to offer an immersive plunge into images and sounds, in a nomadic journey through cosmopolitan Marseille between the wars and Marseille in the 1990s, seen through the eyes of Jacques Windenberger, Pierre Ciot and Kamar Idir.
Filmmakers and photographers expressed a certain fascination with this “crossroads of peoples,” this sultry and shadowy atmosphere that attracts and unsettles them in equal measure.
PRÉMICES: two slideshows and a film essay projected onto the bunker walls, a montage interweaving excerpts from fiction films (silent and sound), audiovisual archives and contemporary images.
Created by Edouard Mills Affiff, senior lecturer in Film Studies (Université Paris-Cité/Aix-Marseille Université), documentary filmmaker and director.
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