Mimesis 2024 spotlights expanded cinema with an opening night of installation, live performance, and conversation. Grappling with grief, power, and transformations of form, these works translate documentary into embodied experience.
Listen to all 3 episodes of How We Stopped It at this link
This sound documentary follows Eva, a Spanish tour guide living in Paris for the past 7 years. Eva conducts the Mysteries and Legends Tour every week in the heart of the city in Île Saint-Louis. The tour traces the dark history of Paris, where she introduces her audience to the violence that consumed the city in the Middle Ages.
Through Eva’s undying passion for discovery, the piece invites the listener to see beyond what is mostly known of Paris today; asking them to patiently observe the city, and listen deeply to the sound of its ghosts.
- Year2023
- Runtime17 minutes
- CountryFrance
- DirectorNeelansh Mittra, Yasmine Mahjoubi
Mimesis 2024 spotlights expanded cinema with an opening night of installation, live performance, and conversation. Grappling with grief, power, and transformations of form, these works translate documentary into embodied experience.
Listen to all 3 episodes of How We Stopped It at this link
This sound documentary follows Eva, a Spanish tour guide living in Paris for the past 7 years. Eva conducts the Mysteries and Legends Tour every week in the heart of the city in Île Saint-Louis. The tour traces the dark history of Paris, where she introduces her audience to the violence that consumed the city in the Middle Ages.
Through Eva’s undying passion for discovery, the piece invites the listener to see beyond what is mostly known of Paris today; asking them to patiently observe the city, and listen deeply to the sound of its ghosts.
- Year2023
- Runtime17 minutes
- CountryFrance
- DirectorNeelansh Mittra, Yasmine Mahjoubi