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Jaur?s
Jaures is a non-premeditated film. Vincent Dieutre shot the scenes on digital video almost instinctively, as if to keep a trace of his love story with ?Simon?. In the last year of their relationship, he filmed what he saw from the window of Simon?s apartment, where he spent his nights: the Jaur?s metro station, the tent camp of young Afghan refugees on the banks of the Canal Saint-Martin under the Lafayette Bridge, and so on. Simon, who is an activist who works to help refugees to obtain legal status, never wanted to appear in one of Vincent?s projects. Filming from his window thus allowed Vincent to keep some indirect trace of his presence. He would regularly shoot a few minutes of tape in the morning or evening, paying attention to the pace of life down at the refugee camp, compiling a collection of ?views? of the neighbourhood. As it progresses, the film captures other thematic elements, such as the overhead metro line, people passing by, the ?neon artist? opposite, the magnificent white pigeon, and so forth, as well as variations in this little world according to the seasons and the time of day. It becomes something of a Georges Perec-inspired act, the ?exhaustion? of a particular viewpoint of a given location. Vincent Dieutre meets Eva Truffaut in a mixing theatre, where they will look and discuss these rushes, these pictures. Jaures explores the junction between private and public space. It considers two parallel realities : Vincent emotional life in the apartment and that of the refugees down below. The ?geography? of his personal life and that of modern-day Paris seems to collide head-on with the precarious existence of the refugees under the Lafayette Bridge. Vincent thus became aware that the refugees and he shared daily routines, leaving in the morning and returning in the evening. Everything coexisted in the space. Jaur?s explores these tempos, these secret connections, developing them without attempting to resolve them. What we mainly hear is Vincent dialogue with Eva, at times on-screen, at times off-screen, that takes place in the mixing theatre.
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LocationMetcalf Auditorium
20 N. Main St.
Providence, RI 02903
United States
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| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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