Ritual 4: le grand debat
ÉMILIE ROUSSET & LOUISE HÉMON (FR)
© Philippe Lebruman
What happens when political debate becomes a television format? When democracy adopts the codes of show business?
Since 2015, theatre director Émilie Rousset and film director Louise Hémon have been creating ‘Rituels’, an ever-evolving collection of films and performances that explore the rituals of our society by drawing on the codes of theatre and documentary cinema. Their performative research projects explore the theatrical potential present in the gap between the original document and its representation, with humour as an essential component.
Le Grand Débat, the fourth collaboration between Émilie Rousset and Louise Hémon, recreates on stage the traditional televised face-off of the French presidential election run-off through a montage of archives from 1974 to 2017.
Seated opposite each other at a table, two actors re-enact these fragments before the eyes of the audience and the cameras. The word circulates between the two candidate-actors with texts from different eras: Giscard d’Estaing, Mitterrand, Chirac, Jospin, Sarkozy, Hollande, Macron, Royal, Le Pen, while the film, edited live, is projected above the actors.
The final debate, full of twists and turns, witty remarks, changes of direction, interruption techniques and directing codes, is a mixture of rhetoric and adrenaline with its own principles of editing, scenography and media history. With its highly codified rules, this event is a true ritual of modern times.
► May 8th h. 18:00 > 20:00 at Institut français Milano ◀︎
Panel with Riccardo Sorrentino, president of OGL, who has followed French political affairs for years for Il Sole 24 Ore; Émilie Rousset and Louise Hémon, authors and directors of Rituel n.4: Le Grand Débat.
Ideation, direction: Émilie Rousset e Louise Hémon with: Emmanuelle Lafon e Laurent Poitrenaux and the voice of Leïla Kaddour Boudadi light design and images: Marine Atlan operators: Alexandra de St Panquat, Pierre Mazoyer scenografia: Émilie Rousset e Louise Hémon editing: Carole Borne music: Emile Sornin make up: Amanda Silaen video and audio direction: Romain Vuillet general technical direction, stage and lighting: Jérémie Sananes light direction: Clarisse Bernez-Cambot Labarta film shoot production: CDNO – Centre Dramatique National d’Orléans creation production: Cie John Corporation in association with: Agathe Berman Studio with the support of: Fondation d’entreprise Hermès nell’ambito del programma: New Settings, DicréAM, Hors-Pistes / Centre Pompidou co-production: Théâtre de la Cité Internationale (Parigi) e Festival d’Automne à Paris this project was funded by: Regione Île-de-France with support of DRAC Île-de-France film shoot co-production: Festival d’Automne à Paris.
Event organized with the patronage of the Institut français Milano.
Info
70 min
French with sub. Ita
Tickets
FULL PRICE 15,00 €
REDUCED OVER 65 13,00 €
REDUCED Students/Under26/ with disability 10,00 €
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Accessibility
Suitable for audiences aged 15 and over.
Event accessible to people with reduced mobility and deaf or hearing-impaired people.
Émilie Rousset is a French director who uses archives and documentary research to create plays, installations and films. She collects words, ideas and currents of thought and invents structures in which actors can embody these voices. Her montage-based writing style plays with the contrast between the documents she collects and their staging, in order to better explore the archives of our contemporary societies.
Combining cinema, video and theatre, Louise Hémon develops a practice in which the “real” constitutes a living material that she explores to bring out the symbols and myths that feed our imagination. Her first feature film, L’Engloutie, supported by the Centre-Val de Loire Region, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival – Quinzaine des cinéastes.
