Gathered on October 6, at the Institut du Monde Arab, in Paris, professionals expressed their determination to preserve the cultural exception, in danger according to them.
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something happened during the call to the States General of Cinema, which took place, Thursday, October 6, throughout the afternoon, at the Institute of the Arab World (IMA), in Paris. A link was sketched between the “environment cinema”, an expression designating the rather well funded author’s films, and the weakened sector of the works produced with less than a million euros. The profession has little choice: the cinema is in platform, between the decline in the plant attendance (- 30 % compared to 2019), and the growing success of home viewing, films and series, on The platforms precisely. As for the various signals sent by the government (in addition to the abolition of the audiovisual fee), aimed at bringing cinema and audiovisual closer, or to invest in favor of “new writings” – testifies “the great factory of the image” of the France plan 2030 – They are not reassuring according to many professionals. We are talking more about “content” than works, despair the authors.
The policy of the “check book”, which Emmanuel Macron drew during the pandemic, (343 million euros paid to the profession, to compensate in particular the closure of the rooms, plus a fund for the shootings of a amount of around 50 million euros) is no longer enough. Certain statements by the President of the Republic, such as his enthusiasm in favor of e -sport – competitions on video games – which could invest indifferently stages or movie theaters worry.
Professionals expect other words. In a platform published in Le Monde, on May 17, more than two hundred personalities called for “general vigilance”, but their cry sounded in the desert. In the line of sight, the president of the National Center for Cinema and the Animated Image (CNC), Dominique Boutonnat, author in 2018 of a report on the private funding of cinema, before being appointed head of the CNC – Then renewed in his functions, in July 2022, when he must soon be tried before the criminal court for acts of “sexual assault” against his godson – an accusation which he contests firmly. Invited to the day of October 6, the Ministry of Culture and the CNC were to absent subscribers.
But the eternal Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, 83, current boss of the IMA, was there, purple scarf on dark costume, with the aura of the one who wrote part of the story of The regulation of culture, as a former host of the rue de Valois (1981-1986, then 1988-1993). In perfect gentleman, in the room of the basement full to crack, “Jack” congratulated the current minister, Rima Abdul-Malak, before begging the profession to “not panic”. It would be too good gift for opponents.
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