Tourisme International
Marie Voignier – France 2014 – 48 min.
Sc+DOP+E+P: Marie Voignier – S: Thomas Fourel, Florian Fabre, Agathe Courtin
Digital – French
Prix Marseille Espérance, FID Marseille
German Premiere
The film begins in Pyongyang, in the office of an official institution: a man hangs up his phone and then the crackle of a flash when he is photographed. He reacts, he speaks, but from his moving lips no words can be heard, as if they had been deleted. Successive visits ensue: here an art museum, there the house where the President was born. It is a silent voyage in which sounds seem to have been smothered in a country where we learn that the President himself is concerned about every detail, where painting seems to have replaced photography and all cinema is dubbed for fear of oversights.
This is a journey through a country in perpetual representation in which two logics, the wish to see and the desire to show, confront one another: the logic of a government that leaves nothing to chance, and that of tourism in search of images. – Nicolas Féodoroff
Friday 10/10 8.30 p.m. Werkstattkino – Guest: Marie Voignier
Marie Voignier, born in 1974 in Ris-Orangis, France, moves between documentary and visual arts. In 2010 she had a first solo exhibition held in gallery Marcelle Alix.
Films (selection): Les fantômes 2004 – Western DDR 2005 – Le bruit du canon 2006 – Au travail 2008 – Hinterland 2009 (9. UX) – Hearing the Shape of a Drum 2010 – L'hypothèse du Mokélé-Mbembé 2011 (9. UX) – Tourisme International 2014 (9. UX)