Cinéma de poésie : film, performance et littérature
This event convened by artist Bouchra Khalili will bring together Richard Copans (Cinélutte) and Philippe Tancelin (Al Assifa) for a conversation around the films made by Cinélutte as well as Les Tiers Idées , a book by Philippe Tancelin and Geneviève Clancy published in 1977. The Cinélutte Collective is an association born of the May 1968 movement, created jointly by students and teachers at IDHEC-Institute des Hautes Études Cinématographiques. From 1973 to 1981, Cinélutte produced, shot, and distributed seven short and medium-length films including Jusqu’au bout and Margoline , both on immigrant struggles. This period also saw the development of theater groups such as Al Halaka (Marseille/Aix) and Al Assifa (Paris), which were instrumental in furthering the struggle against racism and for migrant workers rights through cultural and performative ways, alongside the Movement of Arab Workers. Bouchra Khalili (1975, Casablanca, Morocco) has devoted ten years of research to these groups: this inquiry has led her to produce a set of projects ( The Circle , installation, 2023; The Tempest Society , film in 2017 and publication in 2019; Audio Family Album , 2020) on the work and memory of these theatrical experiences. A French-Moroccan artist living and working between Berlin and Vienna, h er work is presented as part of A Convening of Civic Poets , an exhibition currently on view at KADIST Paris.