L’ESCROQUERIE is a disused factory occupied since 2023
L’ESCROQUERIE is a collective with 14 members
L’ESCROQUERIE creates shows
L’ESCROQUERIE creates in an aesthetic similar to expressionism, performance and Theatre of the Unconscious
L’ESCROQUERIE is a creative space open to all types of artists for residencies, performances, parties, DJ sets, screenings, etc.
protocole hystérique film&performance festival - 28 and 29 March at l’Escroquerie (Montreuil): 5 screenings of experimental / crashed / diy films + 10 performances and/or live shows.
the world is burning.
At a time when violence has become the only way of interacting with reality, we felt an urgent need to find new ways of existing, of creating, of reclaiming blood and tears.
to amplify our cries so as to leave no room for silence. silence that is complicit in the aberrations that this world trivialises, in the fascist system that it imposes.
protocole hystérique was born out of our blackened hearts, out of a need to create a space that breathes and exudes our deviant sensibilities. we bring together artists on the margins, hysterical, queer, non-conforming, cell.eux who go against established protocols to establish new rituals.
to all the crazy ones,
to our mothers,
to those who still believe,
the world is burning, we’ll dance harder
Founded in 2014, What’s Your Flavor? is a collective that grew out of the CJC and focuses on queer and LGBTQIA+ artists and filmmakers.
In the form of an annual call for films, What’s Your Flavor? enriches the CJC’s distribution catalogue with innovative and surprising works by people working from these singular experiences.
The films we are looking for are not confined to the themes of gender and sexuality. This call is aimed at filmmakers who invoke and/or thwart these identities in order to claim an original view of the world and find their own language in formal, narrative and poetic experimentation.
This call for films is currently open until 22 March… Click here to submit your films ;)
The protocole hystérique invited What’s Your Flavor? collective to programme a screening based off their catalogue.
We elaborated the screening from films by filmmakers we discovered this year and the latter, following the call for films for the collective’s 10th anniversary (click here to see the event!). We selected them to be part of the CJC’s catalogue because each in their own way hijacks/criticises/hurts the pre-established codes of a cinema formatted by the petro-sexo-racial norms of a gangrenous society. These films were made by queer filmmakers and touch upon subjects that are close to their hearts.
They range from abstract films in garish colours that capture the evanescence of childhood memories,
to almost too intimate portraits of young queers monologuing in the night,
or trans people at grip with the fluctuating violence and intensity of a fragile psyche using the camera as witness and material to generate the negative of their marginalised experiences,
to the goofy fiction of a video game using the codes of WoW to depict dykes fighting to protect the data of the LGBTQIA+ community,
to the manipulation of i.a to hijack cisheteropatriarchal codes of confinement of other identities to blur the constructed boundaries of gender.
The films you are about to see are the portrait of a contemporary youth in pain of being, looking for the interstices of reinforced concrete through which to infuse grace.
