Workshops and residencies

Workshop – Camera Obscura by Jooj

Experience what it’s like inside a life-size camera! Enter and learn how images are focused, and how an image can change with filters, distortions, different projections…

*All week at the Village Off

Workshop – Express Voyage by Xavier Grizon

Voyage Express is a new travel agency concept that’s simple, economical and fast (but entirely fictional): in just a few minutes, you can be on your way to extraordinary destinations! Thanks to a green background, live editing software (and a state-of-the-art teleporter!), anything is possible: in space or in time, on a flying broom or a dragon, from the infinitely large to the infinitely small… Participants take it in turns to appear before the camera as they attempt to mimic these cinematic journeys.

Workshop – Mashup Table by Camille Tardieu

Come and discover the Mash up table, an (almost) magical tool to learn about editing and create short films live, without ever touching a mouse or keyboard! With the Mash up table, making a short video becomes child’s play! And as this year is special, by participating in the workshop you will also have the pleasure of immersing yourself in hundreds of films created within the Off-courts adventure and diverting them to take part in a secret and special “25 years of Off-courts” project, to discover at the end of the festival!

Workshop – FX Makeup by Omaya Salman and Judi Hennequin

Our makeup artists are dedicated to the labs throughout the week, they also offer workshops to show how to make a “natural” skin or live special effects that transform or embellish faces. Learn how to make small wounds, zombie makeup, scars, scratches… nothing’s impossible when talking about make-up!

Workshop – The world of animation with Lanimea

Lanimea is an animation film school based in Elbeuf, Normandy. They are presenting a workshop to discover film animation in a big studio built for the event. No matter your age, you are invited to initiate yourself to different methods: cartoon, 2D animation on computer, mass animation, film scratching … Our animators share their expertise and allow inquisitive minds to discover what’s behind the scene.

Workshop – DJ, yourself by Xavier Grizon

In two hours, participants attempt to create a rough draft of a music video by manipulating and assembling pre-existing sounds, videos and effects, to which they can add recordings of their voices or body movements, as they wish. The result is played, recorded and played back live during the session.

*Only during the week at participating schools

Exhibit – Guillaume Lebelle

To mark the 25th edition of Off-Courts, BlaiseFactory gallery presents an exhibition of works by painter Guillaume Lebelle, entitled “Trouv'”.

Exhibit – Alban Van Wassenhove

Mindfullness is a series of photographs taken at the Eugène Maës nautical stadium in Caen. This swimming pool, restored and modernized in 2014, is a clever blend of two architectural styles: the modern one, with its large, light-filled windows, and the colder, sharper tone of the original 50s reconstruction.
In this way, the site offers an original interplay of shapes, low-angled light and reflections, inviting us to enter a kind of meditative state of presence in the moment, a state I noticed not only in myself, but also in the people who use the site. I asked swimmers to take part in this photographic project, posing in settings that emphasized this Zen and meditative side, while exploring the aesthetic possibilities of the site itself.

Résidency – Off Cast’ Radio by Jack and Jane

Jack Souvant and Jeanne Paravert invent new ways of speaking, between performances and sound creations. These include P/REC, 100 voix 24h au micro, inspired by Georges Perec, and Parrêsia, a democratic improvisation zone that opens up the floor to public squares.
For two days, they invite you to confide a personal story to their microphones or by voice message on 07 74 88 38 91.
Tell us about a moment in your life that could have resembled a scene from a film, or tell us about a particular story (moving, funny, surprising…) that happened to you. The most memorable true stories will then be shown between two screenings of short films during the OFF-courts festival and/or will be available on the festival website.

Phot’Off Gallery – Pierre Crépô

A self-taught, socially committed photographer, Pierre Crépô was a photojournalist with Mainmise magazine and illustrated the counterculture movement in Quebec. He co-founded the photographic magazine Ciel variable and the Montreal gallery Dazibao. For over forty-five years, his work has been exhibited extensively in Quebec and abroad, and illustrated numerous books, magazines, record sleeves and posters. Still photography and image manipulation are the plastic approaches that punctuate and nourish his artistic production. He will be there all week to capture festival moments in photos that will be displayed in the Village.

Phot’Off Gallery – Alban Van Wassenhove

Alban Van Wassenhove, born in 1976, is a photographer and video artist specializing in the performing arts.
His favorite theme is situational portraiture: a vision of portraiture in which the environment comes to characterize the person or “character” photographed, through postures akin to contemporary dance, and staged in a derealized universe, whether through décor, composition or lighting.

Phot’Off Gallery – Silohé Denis Malingre

A 20-year-old student at EESI in Angoulême, soon to be in her 3rdᵉ year, she is devoting herself to photography and video, with a view to entering ENSP in Arles for her Master’s degree. Very attracted to documentary, portrait and shooting photography, she turns with growing interest to cinema and photographic direction. She will be there all week to capture festival moments in photos that will be displayed in the Village.