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of JEAN-DIT-PANNEL Lydie

FRANCE, 2017, 00:35:00

Production : JEAN-DIT-PANNEL Lydie
Genre : Video art, Creative documentary
Keyword : Performance, action, Landscape, Allegory, nuclear

Summary :
Solitary adventuress, wounded lover and surviving warrior, Psyche imposed herserlf as the artistic alter-ego of Lydie Jean-Dit-Pannel. Through this heroine, in the path of the figure of the Monarch Butterfly, which first served as her emblem, the artist and director reveals her desire for love and travel, as well as her disappointment face to a humanity that is heading toward a void, exposed to the deadly nuclear danger.

For the film & a Fade to Gray (2014), she went to the end of the world in search of the places of history marked by the atom. Hiroshima, Fukushima area, Chernobyl, the Nevada Test Site, Los Alamos, the White Sands missile Range ...

But she could never forget that she was living in France.

France and its 58 reactors, France and its storage sites, France and its military nuclear installations, France and its dismantling sites, France and its waste.

France is the most nuclearized country in the world.

She took the road alone one early morning in September 2015.

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6 months, 10,141 kilometers, 37 nuclear sites.

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