2023nanterrePetit Nanterrefrance
les visages du petit nanterre
One month in the summer of 2023: microphone and camera in hand, the children of Petit Nanterre question their neighborhood, all the way back to the history of Nanterre’s shantytowns.
- formats
- mediums
- place
- nanterre · Petit Nanterre
- partners
- Zy’Va
- public presentation
- The film, then a banner on the neighborhood’s fences, with a QR code to the film.
with
Ali, Dougénie, Fethi, Frédéric, Kalilou, Karlina, Lola, Maram, Mustafa, Nejma, Nihal, Oumar, Soma, Younès, Zahra
“This film was made by the children of the Petit Nanterre neighborhood,” says the title card that opens it. For one month in the summer of 2023, with Zy'Va and mOst, they took headphones, microphones, and cameras for the “documentary portraits” workshop: walking between the towers, stopping passersby, asking their questions.
The answers sketch the neighborhood: a “human” wealth rather than a money one, the summer of riots that followed Nahel’s death, the volunteers and community work, a rescued magpie, the iguana on the green balcony. Then the inquiry goes back in time with those who lived it: the shantytowns until 1964, the transit housing estates, the workers’ hostel and its social café.
The following winter, a “les visages du petit nanterre” banner was hung on the neighborhood’s fences, around the sports court and the park. Its QR code opened the film.
the exhibition, life-size
from the fence to the film
les visages du petit nanterre
the winter after filming, 2023-2024
Petit Nanterre, Nanterre: the fences of the sports court and the park
A banner on the fences, a QR code, and behind it, the faces of the neighborhood.
enter the exhibition →
the workshops, in pictures
workshop photographs: the mOst team
the film
The full film, with sound, subtitled in French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese, in the mOst cinema.
