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