Project
AU PORT DES 4 ROUTES
A film by Sarah Harper In collaboration with neighbours in Quatre Routes
Filmed in Anières and Gennevilliers in 2009

Filmed as part of the art-walk Witness/N14 - Parcours 02 : Au-delà du périph. Conception and filming took place in a café awaiting démolition at a busy crossroads, Quatre Routes, and at the Port of Gennevilliers. Au Port des 4 Routes was projected over the four day-long art-walk, in a shipping container transformed into a 12-seat cinema, in the middle of the busy market place Quatre Routes.

Witness / N14 offered walks for dreamers in search of decadent spaces and unusual encounters. It was a large-scale neighbourhood project, a series of artistic hikes of over 10 km each, with installations proposed by the authors (Sarah Harper, Juliet Dieudonné and Erwan Quintin) and local inhabitants, inspired by research, collected testimonies and chance meetings made during our exploratory rambles. Subsequently installed into the very sites they were discovered, with the help of residents, these works and accompanying performances became the mediator of the spectator's vision of the road's heterotopia, the neighbours within, and the encounters experienced. The forms were multiple: photos in large or small formats, soundscapes, videos, texts, and performances punctuated both public and private spaces along the route and in homes, courtyards, gardens or shops, with traders or inhabitants becoming accomplices of the work.

Creative Team & Partners
AU PORT DES 4 ROUTES

Directed by : Sarah Harper

Realisation, images and editing : Pierluigi de Palo and Pierre Froment (Groupe LAPS)

Sound design end editing : Erwan Quintin

Photos and graphics : Juliette Dieudonnée and Erwan Quentin

Production Clotilde Fayolle

 

With : Amine Boudehri, Juba Bouziane, Kader Sebaa, Bun yi Chhor (Guy), Juao Neves Ferraz et sa colombe "Blanche", Jane Downs, Samba Dramé (El Hadj), Stéphane Chhor, Jacques Mulot, Zéhira Kara, Rachide Zorgani, Moktar Zouaoui, Monsieur Jean d'Affric 4 Routes, Rodolphe Boussard, Mme David Raymond, Salmi Boualem, Karim, Mustapha Bentamra, Kader Houari, Sélassié Sekyere, Said Boufares, Amine Ddaffer, Kamel Amrane, Redha Djidel, Riad Aitmeziane, Abdel Alaoui.

Music by AUTHENTIK - Alka'sim, KRS & Dynamo

Resources
AU PORT DES 4 ROUTES