GAREDUNORD.NET
An opportunity to discuss, in the presence of Claire Simon, the potential that this format holds for filmmaking and film diffusion. The filmmaker has turned this place into a documentary (Géographie humaine), a feature film (Gare du Nord) and the webdoc.
“After a lengthy immersion in the Gare du Nord spent collecting stories and dialogues, I realised that one could imagine a film specifically designed for the Web, a digital scene that is able, through its arborescence, its fragments, it pages, like waves always different, to draw the portrait of a global France that crosses daily through the station, a human universe that is suspended for a moment, before or after a train, metro, RER. For me, this station is the largest public square in France and probably Europe, and this is what makes it a concrete incarnation of the Web.”
Claire Simon
Claire Simon is a French filmmaker. She discovered the art of direct cinema in the Ateliers Varan and made her first documentaries including c (1995) and Récréations (1998). She has also written and directed three feature-length dramas: Sinon oui (1997), Ça brûle (2005) and Les Bureaux de Dieu (2008). She also made the documentaries Gare du Nord (2013), Le Bois dont les rêves sont faits (2016) and Le Concours (2017). After her 2020 documentary series, Le Village, (20 x 26-min episodes), in 2021 Claire Simon made the documentary Le Fils de l’épicière, le Maire, le Village et le Monde, due for release this year.
Films d'Ici
Thierry Morlaas
Claire Simon; Richard Copans; Laurent Bourgeat
Films d'Ici
