FIFEQ – The Big Everything + Q&A [FREE SCREENING]

Free admission, limited seating available ! We advise you arrive 20 to 30 minutes before the start of the session to ensure your seat.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with the filmmaker 

Synopsis
Documentary filmmaker Aminatou Échard embarks on a journey in the footsteps of her mother, ethnologist Nicole Échard, who conducted research in Niger from 1964 to 1994. She explores the 16mm films shot in the field, as well as the correspondence between her mother and her principal collaborator, Garba Maïgoye. Together with him and art students in Niamey, Aminatou reinterprets these archives and attempts to connect the traces of the past with the challenges of the present, exploring the colonial legacy and the complexity of contemporary Niger in dialogue with its history.

Biography
After training in ethnomusicology and film (Master’s in Documentary Film from Lussas – Ardèche Image), Aminatou Echard has been making documentary and experimental films. She explores the relationship between sound and image. Fieldwork is an essential element of her artistic practice. Since 2006, she has traveled regularly to Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan), where she has collected numerous Super 8 images and sound recordings to explore the unique bonds that form between people and their environment. She directed Esquisses kirghizes, her first experimental short film based on this material, in 2007, followed by Broadway in 2010, a medium-length film produced by G.R.E.C., and Djamilia in 2018, a Super 8 feature film, which was screened at the 2018 Berlinale and Cinéma du Réel, among other venues. (Cinéma du Réel)