Stéla is a French artistic organisations based in Saint-Etienne directed by Anna Alexandre, creating, producing, commissioning and curating. Dance & Cinema projects questioning nowadays societal issues since 2010. Each season is committed to propose screenings, workshops, discussions, performances and participative projects mixing artists from France and abroad, professionals and amateurs, ordinary people and people with disabilities. The season closes with the DesArts//DesCinés Festiva; in May.

Traverse

Canada / France / 2018 / 13mins

Directors: Marlene Millar, Sandy Silva

Traverse weaves the stories of five women into a tapestry of collective experience, revealing a process of reflection in motion, an intersection of movement and voices, a unity if experience in a personal journey.

The Magma Chamber

Belgium / France / 2018 / 19mins

Directors: Shantala Pèpe, Antonin de Bemels

The Magma Chamber is a discorse without words, a cry without voice, that tells us the violence and the ambivalence contained in the archetypes structuring female identity.

With the Door of Desire Beating on the Party Boredom

France / 2016 / 26mins

Directors: Raphaëlle Bruyas, Eric Languet

People at a strange party in a beautiful private hotel balance betweeb solitude, social standards and hope for true human connexions.

The Body of the City // Saint-Etienne

France / 2016 / 3mins

This videodance is part of a web series launched by the moviemaker around a simple concept: a city, a dancer/ choreographer to make a 4-minutes dance film. Each performer questions his/her own city through space disruption and unexpected encounters, delivering poetry into people everyday life. The Saint-Etienne episode takes place in the tramway, real spine fi akk city crossing it from north to south and carrying the inhabitants to their workd and homes for more than a century, between past, present and future of nowaday and urban mutations.

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