International Conference: Mémoire des lieux et écriture cinématographique de l'histoire

International conference: Memory of places and cinematographic writing of history

Cinema and history / History of cinema

Montpellier, Perpignan, Rivesaltes and La Jonquera

Days 8, 9 and 10 November 2018

The MUME will take place in one of the sessions, on November 9, from 3.30 p.m. to 6 p.m.

The conference "Memory of places and cinematographic writing of history" attempts to analyze the way in which the spaces marked by past events, filmed in their state of realization, allow a renewal of the writing of history. The relationship between the present and the past is therefore at the heart of the historical operation. The heart of the proposal will be the documentary and the film essay when the question of integrating history into places and landscapes arises. These conferences and presentations of documentaries and short films situated between history and memory, will bring together university students and the general public to show little-known films in order to stimulate reflection and debate. The conference is open to everyone. The films screened will not be presented so much as a theoretical object but as a starting point from which the participating specialists, filmmakers, contemporary historians and film historians will take as a reference in their exhibitions.

Guests:

Directors Claire Angelini, Dominique Cabrera, Sandra Ruesga, producer KeesBakker and film historians François de la Bretèque, Michel Cadé, Jocelyn Dupont, Albert Montagne (Institut Jean Vigo); Julie Savelli, Pietsie Feenstra, Guillaume Boulangé, Jean-Philippe Trias (RIRRA21 Montpellier 3); Virginie Soulier, Isabelle Cases (CRESEM Perpignan), Caroline Renard (TELEMME Aix en Provence) and Josep Sànchez Cervelló (URV Tarragona).

Programa:

Thursday, November 8

Montpellier - Paul Valéry University Campus route de Mende, Bât. D Room D09

2:15 p.m. The War is Close (2011, 80 ’) to Claire Angelini: Film essay on the Rivesaltes camp before the construction of the Memorial. The camera scans the place and captures the thin traces of the presence of various generations of detainees: Spanish Republicans, Jews and political deportees under Vichy, Harkis ... Does the place bear the memory of those who went there and suffered there? Round table discussion on the approach of director Claire Angelini in her presence, with François Amy de la Bretèque and Guillaume Boulangé.

Rivesaltes - Memorial of the Rivesaltes campAvenue Christian Bourquin, Salses

8:30 pm Reading of the scenario "Return to Rivesaltes" by Dominique Cabrera. The director is in writing residency at the Memorial for her film project on the passage of the Harkis at the Rivesaltes camp.

Friday November 9

Rivesaltes - Memorial of the Rivesaltes campAvenue Christian Bourquin, Salses

9:30 am This gigantic reversal of the earth by Claire Angelini (2015, 70 '): Aroused by the documentary by Jean Grémillon, June Six at dawn (1945) this film in turn explores a territory that was martyred 70 years ago - that of Manche and Calvados. In doing so, he finds himself confronted during his quest through the towns and villages of Normandy, with lack, suspension, absence. What has become of the places? What do they tell us about where we live?

11.15 am-12.30 pm Round table: "Filming the Camp de Rivesaltes from the wasteland to the memorial" with the directors Claire Angélini and Dominique Cabrera who will talk about her residency and her project at the Memorial, discussion with Agnès Sajaloli and Françoise Roux du Mémorial, Kees Bakker and Michel Cadé.

MUME, Museu Memorial de Exili Carrer Major, 43-45, La Jonquera

2:30 p.m. Visit to the Memorial

3.30 p.m. In Los Caidos (3 ') and Haciendo memoria by Sandra Ruesga (9'30), La Batalla de la memòria by Mario Pons Múria (63'): two films dealing with memorial traces of the Spanish Civil War in two different places , the Valle de los Caidos and the site of the Battle of the Ebro.

5:00 pm Round table with Sandra Ruesga, Josep Sànchez Cervelló, Pietsie Feenstra, Jordi Fontdirector of MUME and Jean-Philippe Trias.

Perpignan - Jean Vigo Arsenal Institute - 1, rue Jean Vielledent in Perpignan

7:30 p.m. Traces of Wang Bing (2015, 28 ’) presented by Caroline Renard, followed by a tableronde with Julie Savelli, François Amy de la Bretèque, Michel Cadé and Caroline Renard. In the Gobi Desert, the camera insistently searches the desert floor, looking for the traces of the deportees of the great "recovery" campaign that official Chinese history modestly calls "the Jiabiangou incident" and which caused several thousand died between 1959 and 1960.

Saturday November 10

Perpignan - Jean Vigo Institute, Arsenal - 1, rue Jean Vielledent in Perpignan

9:30 am Le Journal de Rivesaltes by Jacqueline Veuve (1997, 1h20) presented by MichelCadé. The film director, Jacqueline Veuve, used to spend her summers in the Pyrénées-Orientales. The ruins of the Rivesaltes camp were not far from his vacation spot. "I have a barrack, but no one could tell me what really happened there." Intrigued, she began to research - without result, until the day she came across the diary of Friedel Bohny-Reiter written in German.

11h The Vanishing Street by Robert Vas (1962, 20 ‘), presented by members of CRESEM (UPVD) followed by a round table with Isabelle Cases, Virginie Soulier, Jocelyn Dupont and Michel Cadé. A Jewish quarter in London on the verge of being razed due to an urban regeneration program, and the traditions associated with it.

Conclusion and final discussion

More information on the Cinémathèque Eurorégionale - Institut Jean Vigo de Perpinyà website.

Organized by:

Euro-Regional Cinematheque Institut Jean Vigo (Perpignan)

With the collaboration of:

RIRRA 21 Research Center (Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier 3, UPV)

Camp de Rivesaltes Memorial

Exile Memorial Museum

CRESEM-University of Perpignan Research Center