For some, confinement is a fruitful experience. Dany Boon, Emilie Simon or the producers of the series “Orange Is The New Black” have projects in their heads.
Dany Boon writes a film on a confined building
The director of “Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis” will be inspired by confinement for a future film. "As I am confined with Laurence (Editor's note: Laurence Arné, his partner) , we said to ourselves why we would not write on the subject, explained Dany Boon at the microphone of RTL. We are writing a story that tells the life of a confined building, from the shops on the ground floor, to the maid's rooms. The idea is to shoot it by the end of the year, ”he said.
No title or casting yet but enough to deal with when the 53-year-old actor and director had to postpone, for insurance reasons, the shooting of his next feature film, "The Palm Tree" with Line Renaud , originally planned for this summer.
A series created remotely for Netflix
It is called "Social Distance" and comes from the producers of "Orange Is The New Black". In full development, the series on the background of Covid-19 expected on Netflix will address "this new reality, bizarre and confusing" through "the deeply human stories that show how we live far from each other but together," according to a statement. It will be carried out remotely. The actors, whose names are not yet known, will film themselves at home. A process already used by the judicial series "All Rise" (on CBS across the Atlantic, unpublished in France), including an episode filmed during confinement has already been broadcast. In addition, the producers of the comedy "The Office" (the American version) have announced floor on a series on the theme of telework.
A mini-album signed Emilie Simon
Almost two months ago, Emilie Simon was in Los Angeles to work on a clip for her next album and unable to return to France. "Being confined alone with her studio and her instruments is conducive to writing," she explains on the phone, from California. I was driven by a kind of creative urgency, a need to express the emotions I felt. The songs were created in a few days. ” As a result, four titles that form a mini-album, "Mars on Earth, 2020", already available for streaming and this summer on vinyl. Each tells of a stage of confinement, from amazement to liberation. "The pandemic and its surreal side made me think of an invisible threat, an enemy from outside, and therefore science fiction, says the multi-instrumentalist. The subject is dark but I tried, in music, to seek energy, a life force. "
In French and in English, the songs seduce by their diversity: the dancing "Ce ombre", the soft "En attendant l'aurore", "Mars on Earth" and his guitar as well as the electro pop "Un nouveau monde".
The sounds of our cloistered lives
Capturing the noise of confinement to make it a sound work. This is the idea that Babette Largo, multidisciplinary artist had. Before March 16, she organized workshops in the Yvelines to gather views on the peace treaties of the end of the First World War. The announcement of confinement changed everything. She proposes to the departmental archives to launch a call for sound contributions from confined people. "I wanted to know what we hear when the Earth no longer rotates in exactly the same way," explains La Nantaise. Birdsongs, applause, a child chirping, boiling water or a quiz between neighbors on the balcony: she received around twenty documents. And continues to collect them until the end of May (contributions should be sent to tousenresidence@gmail.com). The montage, of about twenty minutes, will be available via the website of the Departmental Archives of Yvelines.
