Get ready, on September 26, 2015 Lille 3000 returns. This time, we’re invited to share our vision of the Renaissance, the most fruitful era in the expansion of the arts, bequeathing us names such as Leonardo da Vinci. Since 2004, Lille has been revitalizing cultural life in the north of France, organizing numerous events, building prestigious venues and rehabilitating the remains of its industrial past. In the world of luxury, you have to know how to reinvent yourself. Contrary to its rainy, smoky image, the Nord doesn’t mourn its past, and transforms its industrial vestiges into art.
While the fate of Lille Sud is being orchestrated around a participative construction project using Lego, Michel Gondry’s fantasy will find in the Lille metropolis a perfect setting for his universe, where dimensions no longer respond to any logic. Art is not reserved for a group of tormented artists: it is built collectively. Lille has understood this, and in this gesture the filmmaker installs his amateur film factory at Roubaix’s Condition Publique from October 3 to November 15, 2015.
Since 2008, Michel Gondry has been traveling the world, offering the public a chance to practice the art of 7th art through his amateur workshops. In 3 hours, everyone can create a film from A to Z, which is screened at the end of the process. Organized in groups of 10 to 15 people, the program gives you access to professional sets, costumes and equipment, enabling you to familiarize yourself with the film industry. A total of 16 sets will be set up under the former Roubaix wool factory, which became a cultural factory in 2000.
In a vein of cultural democratization, Michel Gondry not only delivers films with an inimitable burlesque universe, but also shares his cinematographic knowledge. Admission is free and open to the general public, so come one, come all, and if artistic fiber doesn’t appeal to you, this will be an opportunity to discover the sets created in collaboration with students from the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et du Textile.
If you don’t like cinema, if you don’t like the North, if you don’t like innovation and avant-garde spirit, your life must be gloomy: Michel Gondry and the Lille experience are prescribed for you!
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