Re Wind

For the emblematic location cinema venue L'Arlequin, Photo Days gives carte blanche to Ariane Michel. The artist has chosen to focus on the cinematic heritage of FPA France, which preserves classic films by Griffith, Keaton, Eisenstein, and Flaherty, among others. She reinterprets these films in her own way, creating an immersive space in the bar area of L'Arlequin's basement. Her installation blends crafted sounds, photograms from classic films, and her own images to question our perception of the world. Fascinated by the “non-human”—animals, plants, minerals—Ariane Michel invites the viewer to reconsider our relationship with nature, manipulating the scale and hierarchy of beings. Her work, at the intersection of film and installation, creates new mental geographies where the world is perceived differently.