Watching and making: a specific question of cinema which allows the discovery of the different parameters of cinema on every encounter (mise-en-scène, sound, light, acting, editing…), and resources to be explored in an educational context (film clips, film analysis, texts, practical exercises, workshops films). Places and stories under examination: the intimate connection between the characters’ stories and the real places where they take place in cinema, and linked in a more imaginary, symbolic way or to the past of those places.
Michaël Dacheux is a filmmaker and speaker in cinema education workshops. On the basis of film extracts, he analyzes how filmmakers film places where their stories and those of their characters take place: importance of the arrival in a place, transgression, refuges and hiding places, imaginary places...
A place is defined in space by specific borders, whether real or symbolic, which a character or characters cross with emotion, enthusiasm, or even fear and apprehension – various signs and symbols manifest themselves on screen indicating that we are entering into a dangerous or hostile environment.
Intimate memories - some secret, symbolic traces or signs linked to a shared public history, the places selected for filming carry with them the unmistakable presence of a life lived, memories - a past at times shared with both the characters and the audience themselves.
At the heart of public spaces, there are specific places, whether invented or appropriated, where the characters form a community, and establish their own proper rituals.
