Carte Blanche - Les Scotcheuses

Scotching machines are the small mechanical objects used to cut and tape film for editing. That?s the name we gave ourselves. We're an artisanal cinema collective. We use the Super 8 camera because it's a tool we can easily appropriate and pass on (it helps us understand cinema). We also like the grain of the images from this camera, which was made for amateur and family films. Its images are warm and inviting.

The collective is a porous place: sometimes there are twenty of us, sometimes fewer and sometimes more. Some of us have older film-making experience, while others have a wealth of other knowledge. We learn from each other. Despite the difficulties, we try to make a horizontal, shared cinema, where hierarchies and divisions of labor are always called into question, and where knowledge circulates freely. We reappropriate tools so as not to leave them in the hands of the enemy. Because if we have plenty of tools and we all know how to use them, well, you see, we'll be the strongest. The strongest in the cracks and interstices of a shaky world. The strongest with our weaknesses. Every encounter, every gap, is like a little match to stop us closing the lens. To put our eyes on the places of struggle, of life.

6:00 pm: "Après les nuages" + book presentation

40 min, Super 8

This is a collective film shot on film, made with and by opponents of the Cigéo project in and around Bure, Meuse and Haute-Marne. In our film, several worlds collide, cross paths, look at each other, mingle or avoid each other. There are people underground, others above ground or in the trees. We imagined what would happen in a nuclear-contaminated world, where some people control, others survive, wait, have fun and resist. A futuristic film? Perhaps. But it's also an archive film in which some of the places shown in the image no longer exist. It's a film that was made in parallel with the struggle, alongside it, in contact with it, in the slow process of collective production, over a period of four years. The story was written from scratch, with what we know here. It is shot through with our fears for the future, our anger and our hope that there will always be people to counter these morbid, biocidal schemes and live in the threatened areas.

8:30pm: Short films on the theme of nuclear power