Un cinéma (très) élargi
During 2011, in Recife, located in the Nordeste (North East of Brazil), Yann Beauvais and Edson Barrus used their experience as artists and museum curators to create B3, a space for exploring images in movement, a space for meeting people and for analysis as much as for exhibitions. Following the closure of this place in 2015, they each developed new projects, both together and separately; these included Projeto Imburana and Derrubada Não! amongst others.
The aim of Projeto Imburana is to preserve a tree: Imburana de cambão, which is becoming more and more rare in the semi-arid territory of Pernambuc. Firmly intent on saving an Imburana, the artist took the initiative of purchasing this land. At a time of intense deforestation, aimed at satisfying the development of land for commercial usage or the illegal production of charcoal, this initiative aimed at preserving the caatinga du sertão pernambucanien is both laudable and educational.
Derrubada Nao! is the project of a film by Yann Beauvais, which combines different trends present in his work.
Situated between the action of the artist Edson Barrus and the collective behavior of the Atikum people, Yann Beauvais’ Derrubada Nao! aims to put into perspective a multiplicity of information which is artistic, ecological, sociological, musically and cinematographically ethnic, all aspects of which overlap in distinct layers that intermingle and feed each other, generating other perceptive perspectives.
To converse with Yann Beauvais, a film activist for forty years, creator of the cooperative Light Cone, we will be joined by the artist Miquel Mont.
