Looking at the sky or the big screen is the same gesture: “When we go to the cinema, we look up. When we watch television, we turn it down,” said Godard. The creation of the science fiction (SF) festival Les Mycéliades, the first edition of which has space exploration as its theme, is first and foremost a call to leave behind tablets, computers and smartphones to open up horizons.
The event, which will take place from 1is to February 15 in more than fifty cities in mainland France and overseas (Mayotte, New Caledonia, Guadeloupe, Martinique), was promoted in 2021, at the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, by the National Cinema Center and moving images (CNC): the goal is to reconnect the younger generation (15-25 year olds) to the joys of the seventh art, and to visiting media libraries.
Decentralized, the event was designed by a (joint) quartet of cultural professionals: two of them come from the National Association for the Development of Cinema in the Regions (ADRC), an offshoot of the CNC which oversees the circulation of films on the territory, and the other two of the association Images in libraries, which federates a thousand structures around mediation and image education.
Projections, discussions, ateliers…
On the ground, the festival is organized by exhibitors and librarians, from a selection of twenty-seven films, from which they draw freely: the range is wide, from Journey to the Moon (1902), by Georges Méliès, to Gravity (2013), d’Alfonso Cuaron, en passant par 2001, a space odyssey (1968), by Stanley Kubrick, Proxima (2019), by Alice Winocour, or even Gagarin (2021), by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh – a small handful of directors are on the bill…
“We proposed to cinemas and librarians (…) to build a real relationship with web influencers, to be closer to young audiences” – Charlotte Bourgade (Images in libraries)
The Mycéliades will combine screenings, discussions around the films, writing workshops with SF authors (Sylvie Lainé, in Lyon, February 4), video games, etc. In Sainte-Luce, Martinique, a escape game (escape game) has even been installed between the cinema and the media library. “We realized that 15-25 year olds are not really compartmentalized in their practices, says Charlotte Bourgade, project manager at Images in libraries association. It was therefore proposed to operators and librarians to work in synergy, and to build a real relationship with Web influencers, to be closer to young audiences. »
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