Jade Jouvin
ROMY quatre jours - Film - 16min - 2024
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 26
In a forest near the motorway, Valérie finds herself in the same situation as forty years ago, when she ran away from her parents’ council flat. In the winter of 2024, at her daughter’s request, Valérie puts on a performance as her icon, Romy Schneider.
For the last 6 years, I have been making films that examine the family unit by having the members of my family play themselves. In ROMY quatre jours, I zoom in on one of the members of the family world: my mother, Valérie Jouvin.
The child as spectacle and spectator is a dominant figure in my work. The camera, like a memory box, is on the shoulder as long as Valérie is alone. It is put on its support when I enter the scene. The film ends as it began, with the difference that Jade is watching Valérie do her thing.
Jade Jouvin
Jade Jouvin is a French visual artist born in 1999. A recent graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon and trained in cartooning at the MOME in Budapest, she is developing a cross-disciplinary practice, blending performance, film and drawing. For her, life is a spectacle in itself: her family, her primary inspiration; the performance she puts on and makes others put on; the traces of collective culture; her drawings, which require physical concentration akin to performance. Jade Jouvin is working on an audiovisual project about time: getting members of her family to play their own roles in order to re-enact the family story. For example, the short film *ROMY quatre jours* made in 2024. This year, it’s a virtual reality animated film based on her use of coloured pencil on paper.
Production
Credits
› Chef opérateur : Guillaume Brault
› Assistant·es caméraman : Emma Delescluse, Nicolas François
› Ingénieur du son : Pierre Dernoncourt
› Maquillage : Lisa Si Salem
› Régie : Sofiane Tali
› Assistant de régie : Enzo Wailliez Petrucci
› Assistant montage image : Noé Grenier
› Étalonnage : Baptiste Évrard
› Montage son : Benjamin Poilane
› Mixage son : Luc Aureille
› Chargé de production : Stéphane Smogor
› Scénario : Christophe Pellet
› Direction d'acteur : Ludovic Lechat
› Accompagnement artistique : Macha Makeïeff
› Stagiaire : Justin Dematte
› Regards : Anne Eppler, Jean-Baptiste Georjon
› Consultante artistique : Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel
› Interprétation, co-écriture : Valérie Jouvin
› Catering : Marie De Cysoing
› Traduction : Ombeline Jouvin
› Graphiste affiche : Anna Chevance
