Migratory stream flow mutations cultural

"Each city is a novel," launches Michel the breakage, creator of dramatic travellers. For its 22 e Edition, the prestigious festival has chosen to theme the "world city". A way to anchor in the contemporary realities. In 1950, only London and New York had more than 8 million people. Today, there are twenty-two cities in the world. And it provides thirty-five by 2015.

The theme of "sprawling cities" seems current. However, it is more than a century old. Emile Verhaeren was already celebrating these "Babels finally achieved", in 1895, in a famous epic poem which foreshadows the advent of the industrial revolution. At this time, the city ceases to be a static scene to become the "city in flux." Migratory, stream flow mutations cultural. But also reflux of the poor and the excluded, pushed back to a more distant periphery...

In "The widows of glass", Alexis Gloaguen evokes North American cities and their gigantic towers: "Full by rivers of cars, they say as the dense core of the world, they based the financial centre which they are the fortin in glazing of ebony." The breton poet-traveller is part of some 250 authors, photographers, filmmakers from surveying the pad Saint-Malo. Among them, of the great names of Haitian literature such as Lyonel Trouillot, Gary Victor or Dany Laferrière reflect the reality of Port - au-Prince, eighteen months after the earthquake.

The time of the weekend of Pentecost, expected no less than 300 debates and 140 projections. Note, in the Auditorium, the presentation of "Victory terminus", Renaud Barret and Florent in the Tullay documentary, filmed in 2006 in the summer of turmoil that followed the first free elections in Kinshasa. The screening will be followed by a meeting with Edgar Morin and Achille Mbembe (which announced the emergence of a new urban Africa, "afropolitaine") as well as with Benoît Peeters and Suketu Mehta writers-writers. Of the latter, can be read "Bombay, maximum city" (Buchet-Chastel), a formidable fresco on the lobbied flats.

This year, St-Malo starts at the time of urban cultures celebrating rap, slam and "street art". She will not forget to mention rêvées, imaginary or futuristic cities. This effect, the exhibition "in the walls" will pay tribute to the famous cities painter Ernest Pignon-Ernest. Another highlight, outlines it a history of the cities "of the was in the TV series", with Michel the breakage, Vincent Colonna or Anne-Marie Garat. The city is indeed a literary hero, "Mysteries of Paris" of Eugène Sue, roman River that probably played a role in the outbreak of the revolution of 1848, to "The Wire", the cult of David Simon and Ralph Burn series. A true maintient policy on a background of a Baltimore undermined by drugs and corruption. A "night mad" devoted to the integral of an another cult series, "the Corner", inspired by an eponymous book Edward Burns and David Simon, just translated into France. "The TV series invents new modes of storytelling that, tomorrow, perhaps irrigueront the novel of the 21st century", prophesying Michel the breakage. Obviously, the festival remains faithful to its initial vocation: an invitation to the voyage and discovery.