Alexandre Cornet
Saltation - Film - 24min - 2024
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 26
In 1962, following Algerian independence, my family left the country for the first time since they had settled there at the beginning of the colonial occupation. Sixty years later, after several attempts to talk about it all with my father, I realised that the well-known unspoken aspects of colonisation at state level also existed within my family. To question the erosion of this memory that is not passed on, and to understand its foundations, I am looking elsewhere for its traces.
Alexandre Cornet
After studying physics and political science, Alexandre Cornet completed a doctoral thesis on the geographical economics of natural resources. Alongside his research, he continued to practise documentary photography and trained in cinema at the Sorbonne and the Documentary School of Lussas, before joining Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains.
Production
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Acknowledgments
With the support of the Louis Roederer Foundation
