Cinema Eliseo | at 03pm
Directed by: Hassen Ferhani
Starring: Alan, Boy, Brandon, Johan, Karakass, Le X, Maximom, Yohan
Year: 2025
Country: France
Running Time: 32′
Produced by: Caroline Caccavale – Lieux Fictifs in collaborazione con Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap)
Plot: In the spring of 2025, the National Centre for Visual Arts and Lieux Fictifs invited me to make a film with inmates at the Baumettes Prison (Marseilles). I set out with no preconceptions and with two references: To Sang Fotostudio, a film by Johan Van der Keuken, and the book La Chambre Claire by Roland Barthes » Hassen Ferhani said, in June 2025 . Starting with a simple idea: transforming the enclosed space of the Image and Movement Studio at Baumettes Prison into a photography studio, Hassen Ferhani and a group of seven male inmates experience the power of images and encounters when they evoke the past, personal and shared histories…