In the 16th century, in a forest in the Cévennes in France, peasant women from many regions band together to fight the enclosure of common lands. A few centuries later, construction in the forest is under the watchful eye of Annie, a solitary 75-year-old night watchwoman. One night, the landscape is turned upside down.
Filmmaker and artist, she graduated from Le Fresnoy – Studio national d’arts contemporains and from the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture, where she taught architecture and landscape theory. Her films and installations focus on forces of resistance in spaces on the margins, on the edges or under the ground. After three short films revolving around alternative narratives about water-related infrastructure projects (Stella50.4N1.5E – 2016 ; Love Canal – 2017 ; Sweat – 2020), Les Sanglières is her first feature film. It is set in Les Cévennes, the rural French region where she lives. This long-term project has given a number of installations along the way.
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