Le théâtre des yeux clos

11am – Voices that command the screen

• Brigitte Fontaine
  Chanteuse rebelle
  She is one of a kind. A punk Hollywood star, a concrete lyricist, a polite sufferer, she “fucks us over with her dragonfly look” (to quote the poet). Brigitte Fontaine is a phenomenon in spite of herself.

• Jeanne Balibar
  « Je suis peut-être un fantôme » 
  As an actress, she stars in Olivier Assayas’s Clean. As a singer, she has released an album written by Rodolphe Burger. As a performer, she acts in German in Solaris, directed by Martin Wuttke at the “Temps d’images” festival. Three approaches, three techniques, two languages: how Jeanne Balibar found her voice.

12 noon – Making a life

• L’avocate du diable
  Fascinated by crime stories, whether for the human element or “what seems inhuman”, Alice, 36, a criminal lawyer, defends “unpleasant” clients: sex offenders, rapists or paedophiles. For the first time, she speaks candidly about her profession, from prison to the courthouse, from winning strategies to fierce courtroom arguments.

• La Bergère
  Audrey is a shepherdess in Le Puy-en-Velay, in Auvergne. She watches over her goats like an overprotective mother and plays the clarinet for them. Nature, gentleness and kindness: it’s soothing.

• Putain de violon
  At 15, Julie Bonnie played the violin in Berlin’s punk squats. Today she presents her original ‘musical autobiography’, full of rage and sincerity

1pm – Life all around us

• Jardins ouvriers
  Just twenty years ago, Anna Salzberg set up her microphone in allotments before they were demolished, on a site that is now home to the National Archives. Workers from Turkey, Portugal, Spain and North Africa grow beans and tomatoes there. These places of community and remembrance are gradually being destroyed.

• Vite, un jardin !
  At a time when forests are going up in smoke and biodiversity is in tatters, Delphine Saltel devotes an episode of her series Let’s Live Happily Before the End of the World to our longing for gardens and invites us to reflect on the poverty of the relationships we maintain with trees, plants, flowers, and everything that grows around us.

2pm – Laura Vazquez 1/3

 La main heureuse 1/3
In this first episode, the author discusses her early writings (prayers to save her grandmother), her turbulent school days, two years in Spain where she earned a living singing in the streets, and the 2014 publication of her first book, La main de la main (The Hand of the Hand), published by Cheyne and awarded the Prix de la Vocation.

3pm – Delicate Elsewheres of Thought

• Nu
  An audio stroll through a Japanese city. A woman is looking for someone. Her son, her lover? Has he got lost in the alleyways or in the folds of memory? A mental wander between private and public space, between modesty and exposure.

• La prochaine fois tu viens
  A letter from Saint-Laurent du Maroni, in French Guiana. In December, the rainy season causes the river to swell and the frogs croak as soon as night falls. The shops have put out their Christmas stock and we’re waiting for Christmas Eve. Beneath stormy skies, you can hear the buzz of the town, the market, the laughter and the festivities.

• IRM
  When you have a medical scan in an MRI machine, you’re subjected to a barrage of strange noises. Charlie Marcelet recorded the sound of the machine, Silvain Gire wrote the inner monologue, and Clémentine Verdier performs it. Welcome to the machine.

4pm – Art and its absences

• Il restera la gravité
  By weaving an intimate investigation, Adrianna Wallis sets in motion a long-silenced story: the spoliation suffered by her family, notably the paintings of her paternal grandmother, Diane Esmond. For Adrianna, herself an artist, this repressed family history resonates strangely with her work; she has never ceased, without quite understanding why, to question absence, the void left by the disappearance of cherished objects.

• Héroïnes
  Where are the women in museums? Laure Chatrefou sets out to find them and traverses a swathe of art history, from the early 20th century to the present day, at the Centre Pompidou, delving into the worlds of Natalia Goncharova, Niki de Saint Phalle, Annette Messager and Sadie Benning.

• Jeune fille endormie
  In a very square frame, the young girl is asleep. She drifted into the labyrinth of sleep whilst listening to a song and began to dream. In this episode of the Museum Fictions series, in partnership with the Centre Georges Pompidou, Sabine Zovighian imagines the nocturnal wanderings of a young girl from Sonia Delaunay’s painting, lost in the labyrinth of the museum.

5pm – Laura Vazquez 2/3

• De plus en plus réelle 2/3
  In this second episode, Richard Gaitet examines how the tarantula who doesn’t overuse commas manages to weave, on her page, a balance between meaning and sensation, the logic of dreams, her use of metre, the lessons of the Argentine poet Alejandra Pizarnik, the magazine Muscle which she has co-edited every two months for the past ten years, and her writing workshops.

5.40 pm – Love in spite of everything

• Amours occupées
  Ahlam, aged 20, talks about love. A student in Hebron, in southern Palestine, she tries to live her life amidst various constraints: the Israeli occupation, but also the veil, family, and above all the gaze of others, the ever-present ‘what will people say?’. Love in Palestine, a rare account told in haunting French and set to a beautiful soundtrack – URTI Discovery Award 2012.