Paris Is a Moveable Feast – A Film in 18 Waves
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MOVIE CATEGORY
Paris as a giant echo chamber of fear and social disgust, a metropolis immersed in a climate of global fear and migration, where immigrants escaping the horrors of war are seen as unwanted bacteria in the already collapsed world circulatory system. Desperate voices claim fraternity, liberty and equality, France’s political manifesto since the Revolution. George precisely uses the camera as a weapon for expressing social dissent, a raw but necessary tool of protest, whose high-contrast black-and-white images exude an unmediated urgency.
Shot almost exclusively at night, in Paris and the nearby banlieue (with a parenthesis in New York), between 2015 and 2016, Paris Is a Moveable Feast recalls the title of Ernest Hemingway’s work of the same name. A film in “eighteen waves”, those that break forecefully against the urban landscape of the French capital.
DIRECTORY
Born in Lyon, France, he holds several degrees from EHESS and Sorbonne: philosophy, law, political science and cinema. Since 2006, he has made documentaries on the themes of immigration and social movements. He has collaborated with artists involved in art and politics, such as Archie Shepp, William Parker, Okkyung Lee, John Edwards, John Butcher, Serge Teyssot-Gay, Sylvain Luc, and Nicolas Crosse. Exhibitions have been dedicated to his work at Cinémathèque française (2008), Filmmaker Festival (2008), Doc’s Kingdom (2009), Subversive Festival (2010), Slovenian Cinematheque (2011), Courtisane Festival (2011), CineMigrante Festival (2011), Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival (2012), Lima Independent Film Festival (2013), MedFilmfestival (Rome, 2013), Milano Film Festival (2013), Festival du Film Français/Cinémathèque nationale de l’Équateur (2013), the French branch of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2014), Cinemigrante Bogota (2015), Festival Internacional do Filme Documentário e Experimental (2015), VII Semana dos Realizadores (2015), FIDOCS (2016), FORUM DOC (2017), Museo Reina Sofía (2018), EDOC (2019) and Pupille – Kino in der Uni (2020). In 2012 he was a guest artist at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. He teaches at the Institut d’études politiques in Paris (IEP) and gives lectures and workshops around the world.
