Projection and discussion
J'ai aimé vivre là
13 Feb 2022
The event is over
Many people arrive in the New City from outside, blend together, find a place. Their histories intermingle and are embodied here in Cergy, where Annie Ernaux wrote the greater part of her work built on the observation of others and on her personal history.
"I have long had an intellectual and cinematographic fellow feeling for Régis Sauder. The political challenge of J'ai aimé vivre là (I Liked Living There) was to recount this place with a disarming gentleness. Sauder has the audacity to evoke a place that people are happy to live in. It can be disturbing, precisely because it contradicts everything we are used to seeing and hearing. Until Annie Ernaux's voice came along, with her very beautiful texts recounting the pleasure of strolling in the city, lending poetry to ordinary actions. Drifting through a shopping mall, taking the sun on the banks of a lake, being 15 years old and thrilling with first love." Alice Diop
Régis Sauder, J’ai aimé vivre là (I Liked Living There, France, 2021, 90 min)
Session followed by an encounter between Alice Diop and Régis Sauder
When
5:30pm - 7pm
Where
Régis Sauder, J’ai aimé vivre là, 2021
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