The CAC – la synagogue de Delme invites you to the restitution of the Valentine Franc residency on Sunday 20th September from 11am to 5.30pm at the Gue(ho)st House, 33 rue Poincaré 57590 Delme. 

Meeting with the artist from 3pm to 4.30pm. Reservation required at 03 87 01 43 42 (max. 20 people). 

Valentine Franc’s artistic practice takes shape in the direction of intimist short films centring on slices of the lives of young, mostly female characters searching for a potential absolute, without our knowing exactly which one. Her style – which is often evanescent and very minimal in terms of dialogues,  actors’ bearing and sets design – recalls that of Eugène Green, Manoel de Oliveira or Marguerite Duras, while being just as much marked by the slowness of East Asian cinema. (...)

In the context of her residency at Lindre-Basse, Valentine Franc is planning to write a script revolving around a fictional photograph – inspired by the universe of surrealist artists like Claude Cahun, Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning or Leonor Fini – in search of inspiration in the atmosphere of the Lindre pond. Serving as a backdrop to this story will be the script for the American film A Stolen Life (1946), about twins (both played by the same actress), one somewhat tomboyish, the other more seductive, in all that may be ambiguous and destabilising in this double play. Then she will shoot this film between the Lindre pond, the bird observatory and the Château d’Alteville. Her end-of-residency event will give her the chance to present the progress of her research and screen a new, recently completed film.

The artist residency programme is organised by the CAC - la synagogue de Delme in collaboration with the Lorraine Regional Natural Park and the village of Lindre-Basse.

This event is organised as part of the European Heritage Days 2020.