Year of the documentary 2023
On the occasion of the Year of Documentary 2023, the Ministry of Culture offers ambitious programming and encourages amateur practice.
Launched last January at the Fipadoc (international documentary festival), in the presence of Rima Abdul Malak, Minister of Culture, the Year of the Documentary is an initiative of the Cinémathèque du Documentaire to which the Scam is associated and is led by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC).
Throughout the year, through major documentary events in festivals and cinemas and on television channels with special programming, on video-on-demand platforms, through round tables, masterclasses of internationally recognized directors and the talents of the new generation, the Year of Documentary 2023 aims to promote the genre to the public.
In addition to the projects carried out by and for the actors of the sector, the Ministry of Culture wishes to broaden the scope of this operation by addressing the general public and in particular by valuing amateur practice. At a time when social networks are regenerating gender, and whatever the modesty of the means, filming one’s surroundings and daily life offers a testimony, looks at oneself and documents it.
This desire of the Ministry of Culture is also an opportunity to federate a number of actors on the margins of the professional network: Culture pass, archives services, libraries and media libraries, cultural actors, social media…
The programming of the Ministry of Culture
Contents
- «À la trace»: a series of podcasts on the restitution of stolen works
- «From Super-8 to YouTube: filming one’s life», analysing the evolution of amateur practices
- «Views on dance»: documenting the practice
- A national competition «Film your life» for the youth of the Culture pass
- Word games and French language at the Montreux Festival
• “The Trail”: A Series of Podcasts on Restitution of Stolen Works
Proposed by the Ministry of Culture’s mission of research and restitution of cultural property stolen between 1933 and 1945, the series of 6 podcasts entitled «À la trace» will allow to discover the world of the search for the provenance of the stolen works, mission work and long-term investigations. The work of art is no longer just an object of contemplation or study, it carries the history of its owners, persecuted Jewish families. The object becomes a witness. And when these witnesses – until then silent – begin to speak, the voice of the disappeared is heard. To retrace the route of a painting or an archive is to restore the memory of those that the Nazi ideology wanted to destroy.
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• “From Super-8 to YouTube: Filming Your Life”, analyzing developments in amateur practices
Organized in partnership with YouTube France and Scam, this meeting will illustrate the evolution of amateur practices used to tell its own story: how an amateur practice transmits a history, an era and is part of the common narrative? What does it reveal about the way we look at ourselves and others?
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- Three reasons why documentary has more than ever its place in our cultural universe
- Documentary Special (2): Nicolas Philibert, listening and looking
- Documentary Special (3): Filming one’s life, the extraordinary vitality of amateur practice
- Documentary Special (4): review of five documentaries that marked our memories
• “Looking at Dance”: Documenting Practice
In connection with the National Dance Centre (CN D), the Dance Delegation of the Ministry of Culture proposes from September to December 2023 a series of meetings, throughout France, which highlights the dance documentary film.
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• “Film Your Life” the Culture Pass youth contest
This national competition organized by the Culture pass in partnership with the Ministry of Culutre and the SCAM is open to all beneficiaries of the Culture pass, aged 15 to 20.
By sharing their testimonies of filmed life, the young people were invited to build stories, to tell their story and to share founding moments, or lighter, through the documentary. So these are close to 2,000 beneficiaries who entered the contest by submitting a short film or documentary series.
Of the 476 eligible productions, ten were finally selected by the professional jury composed of Camille Lorente, Thomas Lafarge, Manuela Dalle and Matthieu Brière, and chaired by the director Manual White. The ten winners were rewarded at a ceremony held at the École de la Fémis on 27 October 2023.
Through this competition, the Culture pass wishes to make the link between amateur practices and professional creation of documentary cinema. Many online resources will be made available to young people, starting with the masterclass organized exclusively for the competition by director Ludoc, as part of FID Marseille. Familiar with filmmaking or even beginners, all young people have the keys to understand the stakes of documentary practice.
• Puns and French at the Montreux Festival
Supported by the General Delegation for the French Language and the Languages of France, the group GF Productions (founder of the Montreux Festival) will offer young francophone comedians to film themselves during the writing and staging of their sketches. Playing with the French language is as essential as it is meticulous to provoke laughter. Filming in an immersive way the act of creating will highlight the art of «stand up» so appreciated by the young generation.
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