A love letter to celluloid buried beneath Parisian rent hikes — experimental cinema fights capitalism one frame at a time.
Founded in the second half of the 1990s, the experimental film association L'Etna witnessed the transition from film to digital cinema. Its premises, located in the heart of Paris, were unable to withstand gentrification.
Direction
Mahé crafts elegiac portraiture of disappearing spaces.
Production
Intimate access to a quarter-century of archival footage.
Director
Yves-Marie Mahé
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
L'Etna emerged from France's unique post-1968 'coop' tradition, where filmmakers rejected both state funding hierarchies and commercial cinema.
The film's release in 2019 eerily prefigured pandemic-era closures of independent cinemas worldwide, making its prescient melancholy even sharper now.
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