"Mon Plus Bel Exploit !"
The initial idea makes fun of the following situation: "You had a heroic attitude!", someone might have said to you one day. So, what if we remembered that and used it to build our hero figure, to tell our greatest feat?
This project meets four residents and four actors. Together, with the complicity of all the artists brought together for this project, the videographer Benoit Serre and the photographer Vasilios Ntontis, we invent figures, between personal and imaginary narrative, by making four short films and a photographic journey telling "My greatest feat!"
Photos©Vasilios NTONTIS
Design and coordination Magali Brument
With the complicity of Antoine Beaujoin, Léa Casadamont, Mathilde Laulier and Mathilde Malleret
And the residents of the Annie Girardot EHPAD (Paris) Elise, Denise, Jean-Robert and Marie-Claude
Video images and editing Benoit Serre
Sound creation and mixing Inès de Bruyn
Photographs Vasilios Ntontis
Scenography (LVN photographic tour) Magali Brument and Patrick Muller
Production Wazo - With the support of the Ministry of Culture, Anis Gras, the place of the Other
This project is labeled " Olympiade Culturelle - Paris 2024 " for which it received funding.
The Wazo company thanks the Annie Girardot EHPAD for hosting the residency.
Photos©Vasilis NTONTIS (www.vasiliosntontis.com)
Story of a residence at the Annie Girardot EHPAD.
It was during the summer of 2023 that the meeting took place between the Annie Girardot EHPAD and the Wazo company. As part of "cultural summer 2023", the company invested the spaces of the Ehpad to transmit dances by Isadora Duncan to young people. On this occasion, the company allowed residents to attend rehearsals and offered them an adapted dance practice. These woven links guided our choice to respond to the "cultural Olympiad" system by proposing, under the writing of Magali Brument, a creative project placing the residents at the heart of the writing process. In residence at the Annie Girardot EHPAD, we dance, tell, take up, exchange, capture in our bodies traces of memories, regrets, desires and wishes despite our old age. We watch and comment on films, documentaries, and works evoking Olympism. The selected project received the “Paris 2024” label and enabled the production of 4 video “capsules”, a photographic exhibition, as well as numerous workshops open to all residents of the Annie Girardot EHPAD.