Les films comme mémoire des lieux, les lieux comme mémoire des films

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Un champ de recherche s’est ouvert depuis plusieurs années qui concerne les lieux de tournage des films des origines à nos jours. Recherches diverses visant les unes à identifier des lieux disparus ou transformés (le film comme mémoire des lieux), à revisiter des lieux de tournage transcrits ou transfigurés par la prise de vue, parfois même reconstitués en studio (les lieux comme mémoire des films), les autres à saisir la charge affective, symbolique que peuvent signifier ces représentations filmiques pour une population donnée qui a vécu en ces lieux depuis lors détruits (catastrophes naturelles, guerres, reconstructions immobilières bruta- les, etc.) (le film comme lieu de mémoire). L’histoire du cinéma – qui tire aussi de ces investigations des données qui l’enrichissent – croise alors l’anthropologie.

A field of research has opened up over the last few years concerning film locations from the origins of the cinema to the present day. Various research projects aim to identify places that have disappeared or been transformed (the film as a memory of places), to revisit filming locations that have been transcribed or transfigured by filming, sometimes even reconstituted in the studio (places as a memory of films), and to grasp the emotional and symbolic charge that these filmic representations can have for a given population that has lived in these places that have since been destroyed (natural disasters, wars, brutal real estate reconstructions, etc.) (film as a place of memory). The history of cinema – which also draws from these investigations data that enriches it – then crosses into anthropology.

Negli ultimi anni si è aperto un campo di ricerca sulle location cinematografiche, dalle origini ai giorni nostri. Diversi progetti di ricerca mirano a identificare i luoghi scomparsi o trasformati (il film come memoria dei luoghi), a rivisitare i luoghi di ripresa che sono stati trascritti o trasfigurati dalle riprese, a volte persino ricostituiti in studio (i luoghi come memoria dei film), e a cogliere la carica emotiva e simbolica che queste rappresentazioni filmiche possono avere per una determinata popolazione che ha vissuto in questi luoghi che nel frattempo sono stati distrutti (catastrofi naturali, guerre, brutali ricostruzioni immobiliari, ecc. La storia del cinema - che pure trae da queste indagini dati che la arricchiscono – si incrocia poi con l’antropologia.