CAC Brétigny

As part of her residency* with CAC Brétigny, the artist Marlies Pöschl has been involved in numerous initiatives with a range of the regional institutions of Cœur d’Essone. She is inviting the public to discover, alongside her other activities, her work in moving images as well.

The three videos to be screened illustrate the artist’s interest in developing and challenging scripts that are both filmic and social. Pöschl focuses on the filmmaking process itself. She interacts with protagonists from various backgrounds and contexts to create situations whose outcomes remain indeterminate. Improvisation and role play, as well as the themes of love and chance, are part of this process.

The Machine Stops (2012) features an old abandoned coal mine, which becomes the starting point for numerous stories, be they imagined, lived, or superimposed. Sternheim (2011) draws its inspiration from the TV talent show format and a Bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel) published in 1771. It follows a group of teenagers who are making their way between fiction and reality. L’École de Simili- (The Simili- School, 2014) highlights a new form of learning in which language becomes a creator of both cohesion and imbalance.

• The Machine Stops, 2012, HD, 5 min, French (English subtitles)
• Sternheim, 2011, HD, 35 min, German (French subtitles)
• L’École de Simili-, 2014, HD, 29 min, French and English (English and French subtitles)

4 euros
Ciné 220
3 rue Anatole France
91220 Brétigny-sur-Orge

*This residency-initiative is part of the Local Artistic Education Contract that Cœur d’Essonne Agglomération has implemented with the Regional Direction of Cultural Affairs of Île-de-France and the Academy of Versailles, in partnership with the Department of Essonne.