SOUM

Alice Brygo
France, 2021
31 min

While occupying a former bank and waiting to be able to legally assert their domicile, three squatters build their own memories in an attempt to reconcile their non-Western heritage with a present of assimilation.

On the outskirts of Paris, Inti, Jai and Pauline are looking for an empty place to squat. A rift through which their generation could slip. They are caught between the laws of the old world and the uncertainty of the one to come. A portrait of our time that oscillates between documentary film, art performance and surrealism, Soum follows the protagonists’ spiritual and identitarian journeys unfold as they search for their place in a fragile present burdened by legacies from the colonial past. (Emil Vasilache)

Date and Location

30th of September, 18:30, Cinema Elvire Popesco

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Alice Brygo

Alice Brygo (b. 1996, Montpellier) graduated from l’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in 2019 and from Le Fresnoy in 2022. Her artist practice dwells at the borders of documentary method, fantastic cinema and art installations. She explores the notion of uncertainty in fragile times, questioning the imaginaries of survival and community building through an encounter between different social groups and symbolic detourning. Her previous film, Peripheral Islands, recounts the cohabitation between two ephemeral communities, ravers and exiles, around a motorway junction in the Paris region.

  • Technical sheet
  • CAST: Inti Franc-Régis, Pauline Cormault, Jai Rebière, Deepa Rebière, Jeannette Preira, Kenavo Franc-Régis
  • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Arnaud Alberola
  • EDITOR: Gabriel Gonzalez
  • SET DECORATOR: Alix Sulmont
  • PERFORMANCE COSTUME DESIGNER: Louise Hallou
  • SOUND: Bernardo Theriaga
  • EDITING: Margarida Lucas
  • PRODUCER: Catarina de Sousa
  • PRODUCTION: Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains

 

 

 

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