ESCAPADE IN THE SOUTH REGIONFRICHE LA BELLE DE MAI – Instants Vidéo numériques et poétiques

Workshop reserved for schools

A workshop (critical eyes and worlds) in the frame of Festival J’crains dégun #3, a cultural trail organised by CIDFF, Planning familial 13 and Solidarité femmes 13, as part of 25 November, the International Day of Action for the Elimination of Violence against Women and Gender Minorities.
(reserved for schools)

I love you and it’s ruining my life (36′) (T.S.)

We live in a world where no one escapes an unprecedented proliferation of images (television, social networks, urban advertisements, etc.). We can speak of a bombardment of images in the field of our consciousness. To this observation, we must add the fact that these images are part of an incessant flow so that as soon as they appear, they are erased from the screens and from our memory because others take over. If for a very long time humans produced images to remember a space, a person, a given moment, today they create forgetting. For so long they allowed humans to become aware of a reality, today they create ignorance.
This situation has the consequence of making it more and more difficult to think about the images that surround us, to say something about them, to say something about the world and about us in this world. The social consequences are disastrous: the “spectacular”, “sensational” representation that we have of the world, of others, of strangers, of those who do not live like us, generates feelings of fear, a desire to rejection and therefore withdrawal into oneself. This crisis of representation deserves our greatest attention.
The urgency is to create centers of resistance, spaces/times where individuals look at images together and talk about them, taking the time to see, to compare, to bring them before our critical eyes. It is at this place that we can say that this workshop is a space of emancipation, emancipation from the influence of images on us.
A question immediately comes to mind: which images to look at together? We turned to images that think and give food for thought. We will call this territory “art” and have chosen 4 works which address issues such as self-construction, gender stereotypes, patriarchy, human and intimate interactions.