Paradis ou Enfer is part of a multidisciplinary film project aimed at young people (5 - 21 years), where during several weeks of workshops in dance and the arts, we work towards shooting a professional video clip for a local musician.

This is an ongoing project in collaboration with the artist Salomé Genès. Cinematographer Teun Brock is involved as visual consultant and DoP. The first videoclip is out since November 2024, titled Paradis ou Enfer.

More information and press material can be found below the video.

How can film create a shared experience? Or, how can we feel more connected, seen, and heard through film? Not only can watching a film have an impact, but making a film can too. In this project, both the process and the end result matter. We make a professional music video for a musician in their local context.

We do this through workshops with young people in their neighborhood. To ensure that everyone can participate, we work with masks, which are also made by the young people themselves. By having it take place largely on the streets, we reach young people who normally do not come into contact with institutions and we can make new connections. We do all this in one summer, so when fall begins the result can be shared.

In the summer of 2024 we did this project in the neighbourhood Hauteville of the French city of Lisieux. It was a great success, where we reached more than 300 people, created new connections between residents and institutions and made the clip with a group of more than 60 children and young people.

We resided in Hauteville for a month. During this time, we were out on the street everyday to propose workshops in photography, mask-making and dance. Everything was purely on a voluntary basis, none of the children or participants had any obligation to attend these workshops.

To the right there is a elaborate project description available for download, both in Dutch and French ⟶

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Part of the project was the proposal to take pictures with a 'camera obscura', an old-fashioned instant camera. Instant being a broad concept, as it takes 15 minutes to take a picture with this camera. In a neighbourhood where it is important to protect your image, it is nice to play around with ways of being seen without showing who you are.

This project was supported by Gemeente Breda, La Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Le Département du Calvados, Partélios Habitat, la Caf Hauteville-Lisieux, Galaad Hemsi - Les Productions du Désert and Cyril Santoro - La Technique Productions