
One more Dance. Before they take the light away
- Publisher
- Filigranes Éditions / Festival Portraits Vichy
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 978-2-35046-580-7
- Specifications
- hardcover
160 x 240 mm
64 pages
50 colour photographs
French
co-produced with Festival Portrait(s) - Vichy
Filmmaker Christophe Acker signs the residency of this tenth edition and proposes a film that approaches the city of Vichy through dance and movement in order to consider it as a body and a living system. The heart of the city, its arteries, its nerve centre, its parks and gardens as its lungs: organicist and even animist metaphors that equate urban space with an organism, in both physical and functional terms, and which Acker uses to create a pulse in the city. Accompanied by the choreographer Johana Malédon, he went from one neighbourhood to another to meet Vichy's inhabitants, pupils of dancing schools and a horsewoman, shifting lines and bringing to light the links between the movement of bodies and architectural lines. His proposal offers a singular view of the city. The photographic residency was entrusted this year to French filmmaker Christophe Acker, who worked with pupils from the town's dancing schools, a horsewoman and an acrobat on an astonishing "danced" tour of the city, through a film screened at the Palais des Congrès and photographs displayed on the station forecourt.