Pauline Bastard

Tuesday, March 24 – 7:00 PM

The FIDMarseille and the Lambert Collection offer film screenings featuring works presented at recent editions of the festival, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers.

Synopsis

A man in a gray tracksuit and blue fleece sorts clothes in front of a warehouse with a half-lifted metal shutter. This is the Emmaüs center in Grenoble. With few customers around, the companions grow bored in front of the displays and casually pose for Pauline Bastard’s camera. Everything changes when one of them, discovering a working camera at the bottom of a bin, starts photographing objects and people. Clothes become costumes, furniture turns into set pieces, and the most ordinary, kitschy, or unusual objects migrate into the aesthetic realm of the readymade. Their second life doesn’t wait for a purchase—it happens right there, in the suddenly joyful purgatory of the warehouse. What began as a game to pass the time transforms into a collective creative endeavor of subversive power, all the more compelling and moving because it unfolds without a single word, following the natural process of long-term companionship. Through the shots, Pauline Bastard playfully explores the interplay and discrepancies between her perspective, her framing, and those of the companions acting as photographers and videographers. Portrait, self-portrait, still life, pop or advertising imagery: effortlessly, the collective traverses and reinterprets an entire history of art and image with a mix of audacity and innocence. The Emmaüs warehouse doubles as an art gallery, and it is unclear whether the catalog the companions create with their images belongs to a store or an exhibition. Following Les Adversaires (FID2022) and Construire les liens familiaux (FID2023), Pauline Bastard continues her collective exploration of the possibilities of recycling and idleness. A defense and celebration of second-hand objects, Bonne Journée is the tender and brilliant prototype of the most ecological and sustainable form of cinema.

Cyril Neyrat

BONNE JOURNÉE
Pauline Bastard
France, 2025, 53’
Grand Prize of the French Competition,
FID 2025

Practical information

• Regular price: €5– Online booking
• Free admission (upon presentation of proof): teachers, under 25s, job seekers or recipients of social benefits, members of the Friends of the Lambert Collection, journalists, and people with disabilities. Please note: free tickets can only be collected on-site. No free tickets are available online. Box office opens at 6:30 PM.