Tanzgrund César Vayssié

FR-2020, 40 Min. OmeU

Regie, Kamera, Schnitt
César Vayssié

Ton
GROUPEDEROCK

Produktion
terrain

in Koproduction mit
Théâtre du Châtelet

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As part of the 2019 Spektakel theatre festival in Zurich, choreographer Boris Charmatz tested the reality of the idea of terrain, the shifting concept of a neo-institution, without walls or roof, an urban green space held by the idea of a human architecture investing its surface, its ground, in short its terrain, more or less vacant and open, aiming to convey through dance the questions which transform our times: the ecology of behaviors, the horizontality of organizations, the occupation of public space, the status of art and the strength of the collective through the example of dance. At Boris Charmatz’s invitation, César Vayssié recorded this occupation of the edge of Lake Zurich during three weeks and proposed this manifest of a film, which espouses the turmoil of a shifting project, of a thought advancing through a profusion of gestures.

Director's note

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    What could terrain be? What could a movie be? What could a movie about terrain be?

    This primordial equation was for me the matrix of a “hack-and-slash” editing, which allowed me to magnify the shared intensity of individuals dancing, learning, watching, to expose the typographic form of ideas as they emerge, and to translate the random punctuations of a human organization in search of itself. Like the project it depicts, the film experiments with its own form. The point was to be inaccurate but precise in order to show the essence of the desire (the need) for dancing, its patrimonial strength, its political potential, and still, despite it all, the simple pleasure of the bodies in our presence.