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Banlieues
With Attitude
Saturday, October
11, 2008, starting at 11:30am
Sunday, October
12, 2008, starting at 1pm
Part of I Kiffe NY: French Urban
Cultures Festival
Produced by the Cultural
Service of the French Embassy
Co-presented by FIAF |
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Banlieues (suburbs), cités (projects), quartier (neighborhood
or hood):
Many words are used to describe the complex reality
of the urban suburbs throughout France. French and
American speakers will present the ambivalence maintained
by the current perception of French urban realities through a day-long
series of documentaries and round-table discussions presented by FIAF.
Discover the world of French banlieues:
from fascination to rejection this culture defies definition
through its constant evolution and shifting boundaries.
Each discussion will feature a screening of a documentary, which emphasize
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The Bad Guys |
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Talk
The Banlieues:
A “Sensitive Urban Area”
Saturday, October 11 at 11:30 am
With Christophe Nick, Daniel Sabbagh, Michel Wievorka
Moderated by Alec G. Hargreaves
Together with a screening of The Bad Guys, scholars address one
of France’s most pressing social issues: the negative connotations surrounding
the banlieues; the possible sources of these attitudes; and the
challenges these perceptions present for France’s republican values.
Documentary
The Bad Guys
Les mauvais garçons
David Carr-Broown, Pierre Bourgeois, Patricia Bodet, 2004.
Color. 90 min. In French with English subtitles.
An intimate portrait of the cité “La Commanderie” in Creil, which presents
a critical look at the city’s immigration and urban planning policies over
the past four decades.
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Talk
Urban Talk: Rap, Slam,
and Verbal Expressions
from the French Banlieues
Saturday, October 11 at 3pm
With John Banzai, Souleymane Diamanka, Joy Sorman, Anthony Pecqueux,
Pascal Tessaud
Moderated by Vinay Swamy
Artists, writers, poets, slammeurs, rappers and experimental artists
are forever using new words to articulate complex cultural
realities, inadequately grasped by more traditional
means of expression. In a conversation between artists
and scholars, this inventive, often subversive urban
vocabulary proves to be a fertile ground for analysis.
Documentary
Words Are Burning Us
Slam, ce qui nous brûle
Pascal Tessaud, 2007. Color. 52 min.
In French with English subtitles.
A documentary on the spoken word movement in France, through the portrait
of various slammeurs.
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Special Screening
U.S. Premiere
9/3 History of a Territory
9/3, histoire d'un territoire
Saturday, October 11 at 5:30pm
Yamina Benguigui, 2008. Color. 90 min.
In French with English subtitles.
A new documentary by Yamina Benguigui, director of the acclaimed films Immigrant
Memories (1997), Inch'Allah Dimanche (2001), and The Glass
Ceiling (2004). This film depicts the evolution of the Department
93, a volatile banlieue located in the Parisian suburbs, from 1850
up to the riots of 2005. It seeks to explain why
this area has become emblematic of the social
problems plaguing France and why it, as a banlieue or “cité-ghetto”,
projects such a frightening image.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director.
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La Commune Film Poster |
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Talk
The Banlieues in the Media:
Fantasy or Reality?
Sunday, October 12 at 1pm
With Abdel Raouf Dafri, Jérôme Polidor, Frederic Valabrègue
Moderated by Mark Dery
The media representation of the banlieues is a pressing issue
as it risks stereotyping a nuanced and complex cultural phenomenon. This
panel seeks to explore how banlieue inhabitants, artists, and scholars
fight against this biased picture of reality through discussions and film
screenings.
Documentary
La Commune
Philippe Triboit, 2007. Color. 52 min.
In French with English subtitles
La Commune, a dark, controversial TV-series, depicts life in
a banlieue where unemployment, drug trafficking, and organized crime
are part of daily life.
Documentary
The Image of the Neighborhood
L’image du quartier
Les Engraineurs, 2001. Color. 12 min.
In French with English subtitles
Les Engraineurs is an association created by the inhabitants of
the cité in Courtillières,
which uses short films to illuminate the rich realities
of their often misunderstood neighborhood.
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Talk
Art and the Banlieues:
Culture Beyond the
Block
Sunday, October 12 at 3:30pm
With Karim Amellal, Kader Attou, Malik Chibane
Moderated by Jonathan Buchsbaum
This panel considers the diverse ways that urban art forms, highly influenced
by American cultures of transgression, take root as important cultural
movements in France, as well as how traditional artistic institutions relate
to them.
Documentary
Under the Concrete Slab, the Sun
Sous la dalle, le soleil
Franck Sanson, 2006. 51 min.
In French with English subtitles
A portrait of the cité of Mantes-la-Jolie, which focuses
on its cultural center.
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Discussions in English
Tinker
Auditorium
55 East 59th Street |
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RSVP by Oct 8
646 388 6683
rsvp@fiaf.org
Free but RSVP required.
Please indicate the specific talk(s) you wish to attend. |
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I Kiffe NY
Festival Sponsors:
Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Florence Gould
Foundation, FACE (French American Cultural Exchange),
Fondation Jean-Luc Lagardère, BNP Paribas,
Playbill
FIAF Season Sponsors:
American
Airlines is
the official airline of FIAF
The Florence Gould Foundation
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