C'est pas moi & Allégorie citadine

Programme

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  C'est pas moi (Leos Carax, 2024, 41')

  The Centre Pompidou asked filmmaker Leos Carax to reply using images to the question: "Where are you, Leos Carax?" So the director of Pola X (1999), Holy Motors (2012) and Annette (2021) made a freestyle self-portrait, full of nods and winks and references to his delirious work. At the same time, this is a loving homage to Jean-Luc Godard and David Bowie, as well as an investigation of the power and politics of creating images.
  
  Carax’s deeply personal film criss-crosses his 40-year career, with recurring roles for Carax characters such as Monsieur Merde (Denis Lavant) and Annette, the mysterious doll from Carax’s film of that title. This explosive collage of text and film clips is Carax at his best: provocative, poetic and philosophical.

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  Allégorie citadine (Alice Rohrwacher & JR, 2024, 21')

  In the Allegory of the Cave, ​​Plato wonders: what would happen if one of the prisoners managed to free himself from his chains and escape from the cave? What if this prisoner was Jay, a seven-year-old boy?
  
  A dancer takes her seven-year-old son to a casting session for a play based on the Allegory of the Cave. But when the audition begins the boy runs away, onto the streets of Paris, and towards adventure.
  
  Following on from their short film Omelia Contadina, Alice Rohrwacher (La Chimera) and photographer JR collaborated again, on this highly imaginative amalgam of film and philosophy with a striking role for Leos Carax. Allégorie citadine illustrates how images – whether shadows or tangible objects – can distort or reveal the truth.
  
  This urban fairytale continues JR’s project Retour à la Caverne and Chiroptera, by recording images of these huge public art installations in Paris. In Retour à la Caverne, JR transformed the façade of the Palais Garnier into a monumental back-and-white trompe-l'oeil depiction of a cave. For the second part, Chiroptera, a group of people embroidered hundreds of handprints on the walls of the cave.