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Residency of Camille Goujon

hosted by Rencontres Internationales Sciences & Cinémas (RISC)
Participating countries:
  • France
  • Turkey
  • Film
  • Storytelling
  • Visual Arts
© Camille Goujon

Period

  • From 02-10-2024 to 15-11-2024
Generation #3

Address

Marseille

Project summary

What's the link between seal, archaeology, mermaid, migration, petrochemistry, invasive species, Marseille, jellyfish, microplastic and the city of Phocée in Turkey? This is what Camille Goujon, visual artist and film-maker, will discover during her residency by meeting a variety of people: archaeologist to fisherman, ecologist and migrant association. These interviews will be cross-referenced with other encounters on the other side of the Mediterranean: in Marseille, founded by the Phocaeans in the 6th century BC. Phocée owes its name to the seal, that gave rise to the Greek myth of the mermaids, whose songs have been sinking migrants in the Mediterranean for centuries. These stories will become an animated film that seeks to understand the ecology of human and animal migrations.
© Camille Goujon

Artist

Camille Goujon

Biography: Camille Goujon (born in 1977) is a visual artist living and working in Marseille since 2018. She studied at the Faculty of Visual Arts and the National School of Beaux-Arts of Paris. Camille has been interested in working on environmental issues from a young age. In 2004, she received an exchange scholarship to study in Los Angeles, where her research on the water industry began to influence her artistic work. In 2007, she received a Villa Medicis scholarship. Camille has also been granted artist residencies in France and abroad in Japan, Russia, and the USA. Her artworks are part of public and private collections, and her films have been showcased at international festivals.

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