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In Ah Jeanne!, five film clips emerge as more or less clarifying ideas, as a free and personal reflection on Joan of Arc., a character who has visions and hears voices that only she can perceive. Pauline Curnier Jardin, who this time plays a possible double of Joan in the present, seems to envy her subject's slightly more alterable consciousness. These sequences, in which the artist's own ancestors and friends play themselves, all refer to history and sexuality, borrowing different cinematic languages and mixing documentary style with fantasy, burlesque and pure portraiture, each of these genres showing the multiple intellectual, historical or fantastical interpretations linked to the polysemy of the character of Joan of Arc. (text: vimeo Pauline Curnier Jardin).

Credits:
Editing, text, vocals: Pauline Curnier Jardin
Images: Pauline Curnier Jardin - Nicolas de St-Quentin
Featuring: André Jardin, Jeanne Curnier, Pauline Curnier-Jardin, Bob Beaumont and David Béguinot
Co-production: Abbaye de Maubuisson - ENSAD - ENSAPC - Val d'Oise General Council - Meuse Departmental Museum Conservation
Language: French
Courtesy of the artist and ChertLüdde, Berlin and Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam