Insurgent bodies!
Art in action

Maison Pop’ & Cinéma Méliès, Montreuil
Season 2008/2009

The Maison Pop’ and the cinema Méliès, Montreuil invite for the second year Le peuple qui manque which will propose and present a history of the risen bodies, through a film panorama rare, documentary, vidéos artists, cinema of avant-garde and fictions.

“Body, place of all marking, of all wound, of all traces. In your flesh are written the tortures, the prohibited of social classes, the violence of powers, scattered but never abolished. Nowadays, only the excluded create. Because it’s the body who speaks, who enunciate the refusal. The cry NO FUTURE – if this future is the continued present – is cry of hope.” Michel Journiac.

An insurrectionary history declined since the happening of the Sixties, total art and laboratory of the feelings and the political action; while passing by Fluxus, the butô, the right to the madness and the experiment Border it; the Berliner punk cinema; the new black cinema and the co-operative of British black artists Sankofa Film Video and; the movement hip hop, urban dances of reappropriation and the emergence of a new culture of the images; an alternative occupation of the city and social space, manifs’, actions of streets and the gatherings altermondialists…

Aliocha Imhoff & Kantuta Quiros/ le peuple qui manque