Nina Gazaniol Vérité
How Pamela Anderson and my camera made me look at women who have plastic surgery
2024
February 4 at 19:30
February 5 at 19:30
February 6 at 14:00
SOMA
Film
Duration: 1h13
Coproduced with SOMA
Not recommended for children under 16, presence of images of surgery, blood and needles.
It is under the aegis of Pamela Anderson that Nina Gazaniol Vérité embarks on a documentary adventure, in Marseille, alongside several women who have undergone cosmetic surgery. Who are they? What do the procedures they undergo look like? How do they live after these operations? Why do they have recourse to cosmetic surgery? Is it a submission? Is it a form of freedom? Do they have to provide an explanation for this choice? Are they “fake women” or “real women”? This film is the sharing of a deconstruction, of the time spent in the lives of several women, of incursions into the operating room of a young cosmetic surgeon, of viewings of the film Camping Cosmos and of Kathy Acker’s training videos and, finally, of a visit to the grave of Lolo Ferrari. It is perhaps also a story of lies and violence, of blood and beauty, of power and self-affirmation.
Since 2023, Nina Gazaniol Vérité has been accompanied and supported by Parallèle in production and distribution.
A discussion with the artist will take place after the screenings of 4.02 and 5.02.
Biography
Based in Marseille, Nina Gazaniol Vérité is a graduate in Performing Arts and Journalism. She studied the diversion of television through artistic performance in the thesis “Don’t hate the Media, Be the media”, interned at ARTE and approached experimental cinema while getting involved in multiple transdisciplinary projects. In 2013, she joined the Higher Education for Creation in Public Space (FAI AR / Marseille) where she developed her interest in architecture, territories, notions of spaces and inhabitants. Since 2015, she has imagined different projects while cultivating a valuable relationship with research and writing. She regularly collaborates with different groups and artists while continuing her own work, at the crossroads of video arts and those of space, performance and documentary, questioning a plastic writing anchored in reality. And vice versa.
Credits
With
Julie Minaire, Mélissa Deville, Evelyne Gatt, Dr. Claire Bergel, Marina Bahloul, Dr. Christophe Desouches, Loïc Ripert, Ornella Chenot de Nitto, Magali Colé, Marion Rey, Laurie Tchordoukian, Myriam Chidekh, les équipes de la clinique Phenicia, les équipes de la clinique de Martigues.
Team
Conception, video: Nina Gazaniol Vérité
Dramaturgy: Marion Vincent
Sound recording: Élie Peyssard
Sound design and mixing: Matthieu Fuentes
Administration: Ingrid Rivet
Production and distribution support: Parallèle
Production: association tropacool
Coproductions
3 bis F - centre d’arts contemporains d’intérêt national, Chroniques - biennale des imaginaires numériques, Parallèle - pratiques artistiques émergentes internationales, dans le cadre de Chroniques Créations, avec le soutien de la DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côtes d’Azur, la région Sud et la ville de Marseille.
Partners and support
GMEM - centre de création musicale de Marseille, les laboratoires deletere, le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Marseille.
Photos
© Nina Gazaniol Vérité
