Julia Pinget studied History and then Documentary Cinema in Marseille as part of a “Métiers du Film Documentaire” Master’s degree. Since 2012 she has been developing her own documentary projects in which she examines the history of places and inhabiting them as an emotional experience. In parallel, she contributes to the programming of the Les Inattendus festival in Lyon, where she runs video and sound creation workshops. Since 2016, she has been living in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté and has joined the Ciné Pause association to bring films to rural areas. “Une place au soleil” (2018), her first feature documentary, describes the life of a place, a beach in the Camargue where working class families wild camp each summer and reinvent their own world. “After Work” (2020) is her second feature-length documentary.
In an industrial suburb, two factories stand facing each other: an old paper mill, recently closed and now the focus of an urban renewal project, and on the other side of the road, an aluminium foundry which seems to embody an industrial world in dire straits. In this uncertain territory, what shape will the future take? Through these two spaces, so very different in light and sound, After Work...
In an industrial suburb, two factories stand facing each other: an old paper mill, recently closed and now the focus of an urban renewal project, and on the other side of the road, an aluminium foundry which seems to embody an industrial world in dire straits. In this uncertain territory, what shape will the future take? Through these two spaces, so very different in light and sound, After Work...