Conceived as a nocturnal dive combining field recordings, testimonials, sound creation and live readings, Matière (black, white, blue) seeks to shake up our ambiguities by giving flesh to what is invisible to us: our connected lives rely on the labor of men and women who extract the ores of which our digital tools are composed. 

Némo Camus' subject is mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo, known for the wealth of its subsoil in rare metals and earths - copper, tin, cassiterite, cobalt and coltan, to which has now been added lithium, nicknamed white gold. The extraction of this metal, essential for the manufacture of electric batteries, contributes to the devastation of the land and the exploitation of the bodies - particularly in Manono, the capital of Tanganyika province, where one of the world's largest lithium reserves is located. 

Matière (black, white, blue) is also a place for reflexive research into the documentary gesture, and the implications of an approach taken from a white, Western position: who "takes" sounds, "harvests" stories? Is there such a thing as sound extractivism? And if so, how can we thwart it? 

For the Festival actoral, Némo Camus invites artist Maya Mihindou to enter into a dialogue and share this space-time.