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Inside a Secondary School

Documentary, 2014, 40 min.

"Inside a Secondary School" is a journey inside a French middle school. Based on a 3 months long art residency experience, the filmmaker starts looking for images and memories that he’ll use as landmarks in order to rediscover a world he left behind 25 years ago. However, this little universe doesn’t seem to have change that much since then. What has then really changed? The question is the starting point of a visual search for the intimate relation between all the different actors and the various spaces of that so clearly structured and hierarchic world. Then, slowly, the inhabitants of this microcosm start talking and evoke these relations as well as their view on teaching, apprenticeship, authority and on the role each one plays within this “slow evolving system”, as the school director describes it.

Filmed in a personal way, close to the persons, with a special attention to details and to the spatial organization, this artistic documentary leads the viewer through a journey into the French educational system and questions its structure and its evolution, while also leaving some space for emotions and feelings in the rendering of the filmed persons and places.

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