Le Voyage de documentation de Madame Anita Conti
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Le Voyage de documentation de Madame Anita Conti

Louise Hémon

In 1952, Anita Conti, France’s first female oceanographer, embarked on a trawler to share the hard life of Atlantic cod fishermen, alone with her camera and sixty men for six months. Using her 16mm film rushes and photographs, the film reveals her scientific and yet tender gaze on the workers of the sea. This pioneering woman foresaw the need to protect the oceans. This film explores the modernity of her struggle, as well as the hazy, rhythmic beauty of her writing and photography. 

 

 

«Anita Conti, the first French woman oceanographer to enter the closed world of sailors, embarked on a trawler in 1952 to share the hard life of Atlantic cod fishermen. Her 16mm film rushes and photographs are rough and poetic. Her gaze, initially scientific, reveals an infinite tenderness for the workers of the sea. Using her images as a starting point, I create a portrait of this iconoclastic adventurer who foresaw the need to protect the oceans.»

– Louise Hémon

Information

Country

France

Year

2023

Length

38'

Category

Documentary

Origin of archival materials

Film, photographic, sound and textual archives from various institution including Archives Cinémathèque de Bretagne and Archives de Lorient © Agence Vu (Fonds Anita Conti), Fonds Mémoire Normande, Normandie Images, Collection France Culture.

Screenplay

Louise Hémon, Aurélie Brousse

Editing

Marie Bottois

Music

Julie Normal

Sound

Pablo Salaün

Production

Hutong Productions - Pauline Tran Van Lieu & Lucie Rego

Distribution

Hutong Productions

Director’s biography

Louise Hémon dirige film e spettacoli teatrali. Formatasi presso l’Atelier documentaire de la Fémis, i suoi documentari creativi (L’homme le plus fort, Une vie de château, Salomé) sono stati proiettati in vari festival internazionali e in musei come Centre Pompidou, Fondation Lafayette, Mucem.