Deversoirs #5
Les Deversoirs are INTIMISTE artistic events at LE Picardeau, combining performance, film, music and poetry.
March 2025, reading for a still life in black and white, by filmmaker Christin Berg.
Christin Berg was invited to be a resident at the Fondazione to work on her first feature film Where the light falls (working title).
For the Deversoir, she directed a multi-voices reading of fragments of her script. The Fondazione team embodied the different characters at play. Berg designed the table set as a black and white still life, echoing the very atmosphere of her film. A discussion following the reading, revealed the challenges of the writing, a moment of introspection and vulnerability that the artist shared with the public.
The film project explores the theme of light, a quest for illumination in darkness. It tells how light has the power to reveal hidden places and to guide our creative minds. The heroine, played by Emine Ogura, embarks on a journey that connects Japan, France, and Italy. She plays Yoko, a gaffer from Japan, who plunges into the chaotic world of a French film set, where she fights like a samurai warrior against a director and the patriarchal system that seeks to overshadow her vibrant, radical aesthetics. Torn between the constraints of her traditional family and her desire to break the rules, she races through the set in a frenzy, reorganizing her life and battling the shadows of her past that creep into her heart. On a surreal journey far from the film, she loses herself in light and dreams until she realizes that she must create not just a film set, but an entirely new reality—her own wild utopia.
Christin Berg is a film director, producer and screenwriter. Her work focuses on urban spaces and remote natural areas, which she uses to examine the paradoxical human condition. She studied at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hanover and at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. As a Meisterschülerin of Douglas Gordon, she completed her studies at the Städelschule in Frankfurt. Her works have been shown at the Cité internationale des artes Paris (2019 and 2020), the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin at Musée du Louvre, Paris (2020) and the Kunsthalle Hamburg (2017), among others. She lives between Berlin and France.
