Decazeville - Der Berg, der brennt

In the organizer's words:

In video recordings, interviews and a course of seven screens, French video artist and documentary filmmaker Nina Gazaniol Vérité portrays the community of Decazeville in the department of Aveyron in south-western France, a former mining region. Little remains of the once flourishing iron and steel industry; the last mine was closed in 2001. There is a mountain here that is known as "Lou puech que ard" (the mountain that burns) due to the hot natural gases that escape from it. This hill is symbolic of an area that is being exploited and depleted, but also of the strength to continue living despite all adversity. "Decazeville" is structured like a television series and takes the form of a video installation, located at the interface between documentary film and visual art. Visitors are invited to move around a space that represents the Decazeville area for a certain period of time: between reality and fiction, between Zoom interviews and roller hockey games, between remote-controlled cars and discussions about the apocalypse, between folk dances and empty oyster shells.

Price information:

Advance booking 10 euros, reduced 5 euros Box Office 12 euros, reduced 6 euros