Lecture performée: "Nitrate" de Céline Zufferey
Overview
Intro
as part of the European Heritage Days
Based on her novel, Céline Zufferey offers a performance reading that immerses the audience in the experience of the first animated images: on stage, she reads excerpts from Nitrate, while video artist Loïc Mabily edits live images from the Gaumont Pathé Archive on a large screen, accompanied by an original soundtrack. The audience sees both the full-screen images and what's behind the scenes: the editing software interface, its timeline, its control screen. Nitrate tells the story of Constance's quest as an editor to find a lost film by Alice Guy - the first woman director in the history of cinema, now largely forgotten, and the author of between five hundred and seven hundred films. Tracking her down, Constance explores film libraries, private collections and archives, and confronts a question: how can we repair what history has left behind?Céline Zufferey published her first novel, Sauver les meubles (Gallimard Collection Blanche) in 2017. To write her second novel, she received several grants (Pro Helvetia literary creation grant; Valais State Literature Pro research and writing grant; Ledig-Rowholt Foundation residency at Lavigny Castle). Images play an important role in her work: still images in her first novel, moving images in her second. She has written articles on the beginnings of cinema for SOFILM and Sorociné, and produced a documentary for France Culture (Il aurait pu écrire l'histoire du cinéma, Une histoire particulière).After a Master's degree in film studies, Loïc Mabily trained as a camera assistant and moved to Canada. He worked on independent productions alongside directors such as Larry Kent and Abraham Lincoln Lim. Back in France, he turned to the media, collaborating with a number of musical artists on music videos. In 2017, he joined the editorial team at Radio Nova, developing a journalistic approach to reporting in the cultural sector. In 2020, he co-founded the Cheese Naan agency, where he directs the production of webdocumentaries and podcasts.
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- 12 September 2026
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