An area for research, education and collaborative creation
Film and new media
Art at the border of territories and persons
Lieux Fictifs was founded in 1994 by Caroline Caccavale and José Césarini, independent film-makers, who wished to formalise in one place their thoughts and practices on image. Several film-makers and artists are associated to the different projects. Indeed, since 2006, Clément Dorival has joined Lieux Fictifs.
Lieux Fictifs is a collaborative area of image education and creation, developing artistic practices on this issue of the « border ». We invite artists to tackle the issue of the transformation of borders that are settled between territories and persons, physical border (the prison), social, cultural and generational ones, but also between art forms, image and sound materials.
In this area that links creation and research dimensions, we welcome filmmakers and artists (drama director, choreographer, sound composer, writer…) as well as researchers and academics. The border issue is addressed between the social and cultural professional fields, but also between arts and scientific fields.
We produce independent films, collaborative creations, image education workshops, research, training and European cooperation programs.
For the general public, we develop a dissemination and edition approach, fitting within a dialog between Art and Society.
The education and creation process are conducted mainly with offenders, in prison or in non-custodial context, and with other audiences and territories, such as Universities, elite schools, high schools, social care homes, youth and community centres. These environments are often brought together in joint projects.
In this area, creation is an experiment, a bold step into the social space, in an attempt to re-construct the individual’s and the community’s stories and imagine new representations in places and times that cause them to become fragmented, isolated and erased.
Artistic experimentation is considered a lever for transmission and education that allows each participant to shift his or her perspective and reconsider his or her view of him/herself.
The artist’s place in writing and creating works, and the place of art into society, are at the centre of this research. Art is an experience of the perception, sense, space, time and emotion, an individual experience that can return one to the other to mutually clear up the meaning.
Each year, artistic experiments are carried out in this workspace by sound and image professionals. These projects combine film making and new media with various other art forms (visual arts, writing, theatre, dance and sound creation).
These experiments are made associating persons (adults and young people) in various artistic contexts (movement, sound, drawing, narration and image). These experiments can lead to the creation of collaborative artworks or be part of participative workshops.
For the last ten years, Lieux Fictifs has been involved in various programs in Europe and Mediterranea area (Italy, Spain, Germany, Norway, Slovakia, Croatia, Lebanon), covering several themes including research and training, through exchanges of methods between artists and public institutions, the setting up of seminars, conferences and workshops, the constitution of innovative education, training and assessment tools.
From 2014, Lieux Fictifs has instigated and coordinated the European network “In living memory, Educational and creative network” on European archives. This project, supported by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, investigates the individual and collective appropriation possibilities from archive image through its transforming.
