The “Prospective Cinema” program explores the cinematic production of contemporary French and international artists, creating a space to engage with current artistic practices and their critical stakes. Emphasizing the presence of artists and public discussion, the program affirms a multidisciplinary approach to cinema and encourages the crossing of artistic genres and formats.

For more than a decade, Ife Day and Vir Andres Hera have developed practices rooted in performance and film, engaging questions of displacement, gesture, and the politics of visibility. Collaborating since 2021, they share an interest in how bodies, languages, and images occupy space, and how cinematic forms can give visual presence to narratives of emancipation. Their work moves between video, installation, performance, and film, treating cinema both as a medium and as a process.

The evening presents previously unseen edits of Misurgia Sisitlallan (2020), Le Daftar (2023), and Amoxtli (2024), three video-installation works by Vir Andres Hera adapted specifically for this screening. These are shown alongside Ife Day’s films presented to the public for the first time. Across these works, migration, non-binarity, and the fluidity of languages and cultures emerge as structuring concerns, while filmic materiality itself becomes a central site of experimentation.

The screening is followed by a conversation between Vir Andres Hera, Ife Day, and Éva Barois De Caevel, curator in charge of contemporary and prospective creation at the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou. The discussion situates the works within broader questions of cinematic form, performativity, and collaborative methodologies, including recent approaches developed jointly by the artists.

Program
Ife Day, moto-moto, 1’45”, 2018
Vir Andres Hera, Misurgia Sisitlallan, 15’, 2020
Vir Andres Hera, Le Daftar, 20’, 2023
Vir Andres Hera, Amoxtli, 13’, 2024
Ife Day, Cuando Estoy / May Cuba / Quand je suis, 3’12”, 2018