École supérieure d’art de Lorraine

The École supérieure d’art de Lorraine, ÉSAL, a public establishment for cultural cooperation, was born from the merging of the École de l’Image d’Épinal and the École supérieure d’art de Metz Métropole in January 2011. In January 2014, the EPCC ÉSAL integrated the Cefedem de Lorraine, a training center for dance and music teachers, which now constitutes the music and dance pole of the ÉSAL.

The ÉSAL site in Metz is structured around workshops, laboratories and research centers on interactivity, spatialization, photography and video. The institution of higher artistic education delivers national diplomas in Design of expression, Art and Communication.

The establishment of higher artistic education delivers national diplomas: the National Diploma of Art, DNA, in three options Design of expression, Art and Communication, three diplomas habilitated to the grade of Licence; the National Superior Diploma of Plastic Expression, DNSEP, in options Art and Communication, two diplomas habilitated to the grade of Master. The music and dance department delivers a DE, State Diploma, one in music and one in dance.

Website : https://esalorraine.fr/

Course presentation:

Art Teacher : Pierre Villemin

The “Film Essai” workshop is aimed at 2nd-year students in the ART option at ÉSAL – Metz.

They worked from archives, stories, and contemporary personal experiences to develop film-based narrative processes that have in common a certain way of approaching “reality”. Their words are distinctive, and they expressed themselves using a filmic vocabulary studied throughout the year, either by doing exercises or by watching films by authors such as: Alain Cavalier, Robert Cahen, Ismaël Joffroy Chantoudis, Henri François Imbert, Chris Marker, Jafar Panahi, Olivier Smolders, Agnès Varda, Huang Pang Chuan…