Cinematographic Territories

Simon McBurney, the associate artiste of this 66th Festival, a theatre and film director and actor, focuses his work on narration. This naturally leads us to a dialogue with the 7th art that we are rolling out in our Cinematographic Territories in conjunction with the Utopia cinemas of Avignon.

Based on the presence of Simon McBurney, we are showing a film by Jean-Noël Roy and Jean-Gabriel Carasso on the Jacques Lecoq School and a film by Mike Dibb of the show The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol after John Berger's short story. To accompany Berger's presence, we are presenting an adaptation of his book Play Me Something directed by Timothy Neat, several films by Alain Tanner on which he collaborated, La Salamandre, Le Milieu du monde, Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000, and two documentaries by Gilles Perret, De mémoire d'ouvriers and Walter, retour en résistance.

Based on Christophe Honoré's creation on the Nouveau Roman, we are showing a documentary by Blandine Armand on Michel Butor in his presence, Trans-Europ-Express by Alain Robbe-Grillet and an experimental film by Christophe Honoré, Homme au bain.

Once again reflecting the Festival's programming, we are proposing the film Delta by Kornél Mundruczó, a documentary by Victoria Clay Mendoza on Sophie Calle, documentaries by Gilles Dagneau on the Kanak Jean-Marie Tjibaou tied in with Régine Chopinot's show, a documentary film Which Side Are You On? by Ken Loach tied in with Jean-François Matignon's show, as well as a film on the financial crisis, Margin Call by J. C. Chandor, echoing shows by Bruno Meyssat and Nicolas Stemann.

For the centennial of Jean Vilar's birth, we are projecting a new film by Jean Fléchet on the 1967 Festival d'Avignon which bears witness to the modernity and openness of the Festival at this period.

Finally, Claude Régy is presenting for the first time the film directed by Alexandre Barry of his show Brume de dieu, and Élisabeth Perceval and Nicolas Klotz, who are preparing a film on the Festival d'Avignon, are proposing Low Life, their latest feature-length film.