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For a week of residency, the camps will be our island, "offering us a documentary playground", a treasure hunt in which we will both be and meet the buccaneers of this territory, in search of links to politicize it "through intimacy, feelings and emotion". Guillaume Brac 

The feedback session with Véronique Goël and Guillaume Brac will take place on Friday, October 10, 2025 from 10am to 5pm in the SONIMAGE room at MaCI.

Guillaume Brac

After studying production at the Fémis, Guillaume Brac directed and produced Un monde sans femmes in 2011, a medium-length film with multiple prints and a theatrical release. In 2013, Tonnerre, presented in competition at Locarno, ventured onto the shores of film noir. Enjoying the freedom to juggle genres and formats, he alternates between short and feature films, fiction and documentary. In 2018, he received the Prix Jean Vigo for Contes de juillet, a film resulting from a workshop with young actors. This was followed by a feature-length documentary L'Île au trésor, and a youth comedy A l'abordage, selected at the Berlin Film Festival. 
In 2023, he directed Un pincement au cœur, the first part of a diptych about high-school friendships, which is followed by Ce n'est qu'un au revoir.  

About Guillaume Brac's work

Guillaume Brac focuses on a place and its inhabitants, especially teenagers. The filmmaker takes very seriously what they experience, with varying degrees of levity: he's very interested in prolonging childhood by entering their space. How do you engage them in the film? How do we create common ground? Her approach raises some fascinating questions: how do you share the same (intimate) space with the camera? How can we experience something together using the means of cinema, particularly those of fiction? How can the adventure of cinema become a pretext for putting into words what people experience in reality? The meeting will be followed by a screening of Treasure Island, which begins with a quotation from Stevenson: "I don't know if there's any treasure here," he declared, "but I'd earn my wig if there were a fever": this approach, which summons the imaginary to better elevate reality, sets out to reveal the relationships that circulate within the Cergy leisure park, and how those who practice, share and love this place. In "this open-air cinema", the camera - in search of treasures - becomes a listener, particularly attentive to revealing what connects and what separates: despite attempts at piracy, social injustice marks a difference in access to the territory.