Panorama of Young Creation

CHILL is the title suggested by an eighth-grader after viewing the bear sent by artist Anaël Alaoui-Fdili. In English, “to chill” means to relax, to unwind, to take it easy, to do nothing, to party. This anglicism is part of the everyday language of middle-schoolers lulled by the culture of video games and virtual worlds. For them, it means staying quiet in their daily space, letting themselves go for a chat, recreating a quirky immaterial world where it’s possible to “chill out” in the playground.
During a 6-hour workshop with Anaël Alaoui-Fdili, they took part in the creation of a film combining drawings, photographs, sound captures and videos. The montage materializes their perception of their daily living space. They seized the opportunity to express their feelings about their experience of the work and the space. How can we translate into video what we feel about our environment? The artist gave them the privilege of viewing the pre-editing of the video rushes. This allowed them to appreciate the work in progress. Edited end-to-end, without retouching or splicing, the shots taken by the students follow one another in an intimate exploration of their school. Playing with wide and close-up shots, the idea was to capture in detail the sensations and moods of a shared place. The middle school is a place where students, teachers, school life staff, management and technical staff come together every day. These images give rise to an ambivalent feeling. First, the idea of confinement and of time passing slowly under the constraint of collective rules. Then there’s the need to create a reassuring bubble, to bond, laugh and play. The images show this double game, between wide angles revealing the desire to open their eyes to the world, and tight framing on the details of their school.

This collective artistic production questions the dimensions of a living space known to all, through the projection of the sensitive perception of teenagers at a key stage in their lives.

Artist in charge of the project: Anaël Alaoui-Fdili
Teacher:  SOULARD—VERLINDE Maud-Agnès
Participating students: Diana ALVES DE SOUSA – Lilian BIGAY ANGLADE – Lina BOURG – Souleyman CERQUEIRA – Julie CORMERAIS – Lola DE JESUS – Clara DEVISSCHER – Andriantsikina DOZOLME – Theodor DUMITRU – Lucile FALGOUX – Liz FAYE – Maël FERNANDES – Maé FERREIRA – Célia FERREIRA ZANOLINO – Manon HEINTZ – MIRANDE – Julie CHAUVET – Kiara OUERTANI – Caly PALOUYAN – Leny PERRUS FARIA-CONTO – Lucie POYET AMEIL – Maëlys QUINSAT – Valentin RATEAU PLATELLE – Evan REMY – Arsène RIVAL – Camille SALAZAR – Muhammed TEMUR – Clément TOURTOULOU – Alice VALADARES FREITAS – Ethan VOIRET