Purpose of the residency: listening and research for the film's sound creation.
"It's in Marseille, the city where I live, and under the aegis of Pamela Anderson, the misunderstood and resurrected icon of the 90s who inspired this project, that I'm embarking on a film adventure alongside several women who have undergone cosmetic surgery. Who are these women? What are their lives like? What do the operations they undergo actually look like? How do they live after these operations? Why do they resort to cosmetic surgery? Is it a form of submission? Is it a form of freedom? Do they have to explain their choice? Are they "false women" or "real women"?
By questioning the trivialization of cosmetic surgery and medicine, as well as notions of norm and deviance, I'm questioning my own relationship with the feminine. This film is the sharing of a deconstruction, nourished by philosophical, sociological and political readings, time spent in the lives of other women, incursions into the operating room of a young surgeon, viewings of the film Camping Cosmos and Kathy Acker's training videos, a visit to the grave of Lolo Ferrari, tragic oversize figure of French cosmetic surgery, and an almost impossible quest to contact Pamela Anderson.
Perhaps it's also a story of lies and violence, blood and beauty, power and self-assertion." - Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Production
Association Tropacool
Coproduction
Parallèle, pratiques artistiques émergentes internationales (Marseille) ; le 3 bis f - Centre d'arts contemporains (Aix-en-Provence) ; and Chroniques, Biennale des Imaginaires Numériques (Aix/ Marseille) as part of the Plateforme CHRONIQUES CRÉATIONS supported by the DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, the Région Sud Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur and the city of Marseille.
Support and partners
GMEM - center national de création musicale (Marseille)
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Graduating in Performing Arts and Journalism, she studied the hijacking of television through performance art in the dissertation "Don't hate the Media, Be the media", interned at ARTE and approached experimental cinema while getting involved in multiple transdisciplinary projects. In 2013, she joined the Formation supérieure pour la création en espace public (FAI AR / Marseille), where she developed her interest in architecture, territories, notions of space and inhabitants. Since 2015, she has been imagining various projects while cultivating a valuable relationship with research and writing. She regularly collaborates with different groups and artists while pursuing her own work at the crossroads of video and spatial arts, performance and documentary, questioning a plastic writing rooted in reality. And vice versa. Since 2023, she has been accompanied and supported by Parallèle, Pratiques artistiques émergentes internationales (Marseille).
Nina Gazaniol Vérité
design, writing, video
Marion Vincent
writing, dramaturgy
Élie Peyssard
sound recording
Matthieu Fuentes
sound creation, sound post-production
Mahatsanga Le Dantec
technical direction, set design
Léone Duchemin
set design, objects
Ingrid Rivet - On va vers le beau
administration, social management
Parallèle, International emerging artistic practices
development and distribution support.