Films programme by SACRe

Territoires cinématographiques is a space for dialogue between live performance and cinema, devised in conjunction with Avignon's Utopia cinemas. It's a daily programme of film screenings after which the public can meet and talk with directors, choreographers, filmmakers, researchers and critics invited to the Festival d'Avignon. It's a space designed to explore the intimate relationships that these speakers maintain between disciplines and the world. It's a space where we can take a closer look, from the small to the large, at the themes that are brought to life on stage, on screen and under the plane trees of the Café des idées.

SACRe is the leading doctoral research-creation programme in France. For the past 10 years, it has enabled young doctoral students to work for the duration of their thesis between creative practice and theoretical or historical research in the arts, at PSL University. It is aimed at artists who want to work in a research context and researchers who want to combine their research with artistic practice. SACRe brings together the Ecole normale supérieure and the five major Parisian art schools (Conservatoire d'art dramatique, Conservatoire de musique, Arts décoratifs, Beaux-Arts, La Fémis). Some fifty theses are currently in progress, and around fifty have been defended.

Films programme by SACRe

Screening followed by a discussion with François Robic, the director, and moderated by the SACRe programme directors: Antoine de Baecque, Professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and Barbara Turquier, Director of Research at La Fémis.

Rien d'important

By François Robic // France // 2022 // 20 minutes

Gaëlle and Flora, Sunday sweepers, leave the bin lorry behind to spend a day that's just like them.

Où que je sois

By François Robic // France // 2021 // 51 minutes

A portrait of my sister, her friends and our village in the Pyrenees. The story of those who leave and those who stay.