| 2023 | Pierre-Alain Giraud,Stéphane Foenkinos,Tania de Montaigne |
| CHI,EN,FR,IT |
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“‘What comes after the black woman? No one has come back to say.’ It is a hot topic. Today, when the essentialization of gender and colour is at the centre of debates, it seems more than crucial to us to support the general public in the recognition of Claudette Colvin’s story, a true metonym of the history of Black people in the United States.”
Novaya to Docubase
In Montgomery, Alabama, on the 2.30 p.m. bus on 2 March 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat to a White passenger. Despite threats, she remained seated. After being thrown in jail, she decided to sue the city and plead not guilty. No one had ever dared to do that. And yet, no one would remember her name.
Noire is an immersive AR experience adapted from a biographical essay written by Tania de Montaigne, which premiered at the Centre Pompidou in 2023 and won the Immersive Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024.
The experience takes place in groups of ten people. Visitors prepare themselves with special equipment: Hololens 2 goggles, a bone conduction headset and a small backpack. They enter a 300 square meter set that will soon be haunted by the ghosts of 1950s Alabama…
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