There are those who bring cinema to the most isolated villages and areas. Julie and Yan Rimbaud bring a festival with them. The traveling cinema project “Le Pleine de Super” started in France, but has already arrived in the Algarve and Portugal in 2016. Last Friday, the 28th of July, the French couple parked the bus at the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Guadalupe , in Vila do Bispo, for another session of the tour they have been carrying out, in Portugal and France.
The session on the 28th was special, as it joined the Seventh Art the dissemination of the Algarve's heritage. The initiative was signed by Tertúlia – Socio-Cultural Association of Aljezur and was part of the program of DiVaM 2017 – Places of Globalization, the program for promoting and enhancing the monuments of the Regional Directorate of Culture of the Algarve.
It was joined by around fifty people, many of whom arrived a little earlier to participate in the floating dinner of world cuisine, made by Maria das Neves. As the afternoon turned into night, the public joined in and took the opportunity to socialize, in a very relaxed atmosphere.
Inside the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Guadalupe, everything was ready to start showing the nine short films that were part of the program. This time, the wind that blew with some intensity and the humidity that was beginning to fall meant that the canvas was not installed outside, as usual, and that a more cozy solution was chosen.
Julie and Yan Rimbaud arrived early to install the necessary equipment and even joined the diners, taking the opportunity to chat. O Sul informação took advantage of these moments of relaxation to understand the origins of this project and get to know its promoters better.
The story of the “Le Boite Carrée” project, which promotes the “Le Pleine de Super” tour, arises from the desire of the moviegoers couple to make known to a wide audience works that were often only seen by those like them. , went to film festivals.
“We started to ask ourselves why it was necessary to go to short film festivals to see these films. Maybe if we asked the producers to show them in this format, they would accept. And that's what happened, in most cases. We created an online platform and received 1800 films, which is a lot, from which we chose 50», he revealed.
So, they bet on filling their car, a very old school bus, now transformed, with everything needed to show a film, filled it with gasoline and hit the road. This change of life happened in 2009.
«We bet from the beginning on not going to cities, only to small towns and villages. We show author cinema, choosing short films that meet a very wide audience. We have many animation shorts, but also fiction and some documentaries», explained Yan Rimbaud to Sul Informação.
Basically, these are open-air cinema sessions (or, if the weather doesn't help, in unlikely places, as happened in the Ermida de Guadalupe). But, instead of a feature film, the public is treated to short films, of different styles and created by directors of different nationalities, just like what happens at a festival.
The adventure in Portuguese lands began in April 2016, when they held their first sessions on the Costa Vicentina, where the Rimbauds have now returned, shortly to return to their native France. In the two seasons in which our country was part of the “Le Pleine de Super” tour, Julie and Yan toured Portugal from end to end, showing, for those who do not have easy access to the Seventh Art, cinema of the world, one that is hardly shown in large commercial theaters.
“We try to go to places where cinema doesn't come easily. So far, we've promoted more than 20 sessions, mainly in villages, but also in villages», said Julie Rimbaud. All this aboard the “Le Pleine de Super” bus, which has already covered a respectable distance of “a million kilometers” during its long life.
And it was not by chance that the choice fell on an old school transport vehicle. «We used to be teachers at a vocational secondary school, but we were already doing workshops of cinema. We wanted to develop this activity, experience and come to Portugal, also with the objective of getting to know the country», he explained.
Along the way, they made many friends, including Susana de Medeiros and Conceição Gonçalves, from Tertúlia – Associação Sócio-Cultural de Aljezur. And it was this contact that brought them back to Costa Vicentina, for the final stretch of the “Le Pleine de Super 2017” festival in Portugal.
Yan and Julie Rimbaud were in the village of Aljezur, in Carrascalinho and in Vale da Telha, before the session at the Ermida de Guadalupe. In the last two days of July, they spent in Odeceixe. Today and tomorrow, August 1st and 2nd, they will be at Rogil and Maria Vinagre.
“There are people in these places who probably haven't seen cinema, shown on screen, for many years. Aljezur once had a cinema, but it hasn't existed for a long time. There was a time when a projectionist from Vila Nova de Milfontes [António Feliciano] came, but he has already stopped coming», illustrated Conceição Gonçalves.
The return of the “Le Pleine de Super” festival in 2018 is not yet guaranteed, according to Yan Rimbaud, given the costs involved. But the couple does not hide that they would like to return and take, once again, author cinema to the interior of Portugal.
Photos: Hugo Rodrigues|Sul Informação
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