Research
The work carried out within CIREC deal with the “social present time” and the major current issues in fields as varied as that of health, housing, environment and even education.
Research-creations which study social worlds, focuses on individual singularity, the sensitive and political discourse of individuals, the traces of stories and history left on landscapes, bodies or buildings, daily life, between individual paths and social movements, negotiation, resignation, revolt and inventiveness.
At the same time, CIREC actively participates in the development of international analyzes on the epistemological and methodological issues that research-creation conveys.
The organization of urban agriculture in the context of development
Here time stands still
Hélène Tilman, France, Belgium
In progress /art Installation
Multi-media installation backed by academic research in Art and Art Sciences (ED20, Belgium). Texts, photographs, film and sound creation (produced in collaboration with Alexandra Tilman reproduce in a complex and sensitive way the daily life of a psychiatric hospital located in a rural French area.
Le second épisode portera sur le travail de Lila Neutre, photographe et chercheuse, qui interroge tout à la fois l’apparence comme expression de formes de résistance et la photographie comme relation de pouvoir.
© Anouk Sugàr and Magali Uhl
Épisode 1 : This is not a zoo nor a museum. Ralf Marsault
Réalisation et montage : Emilie Balteau & Alex Tilman
Son et musique : Jocelyn Robert
Étalonnage et FX : Alexandre Paillard & Hélène Tilman
Avec la contribution de Lila Neutre
Produit par le CIREC avec le soutien de la MSH Paris-Saclay, de la FMSH, du Studio BRAM · 2026
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This is not a zoo nor a museum. Ralf Marsault
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Projections à venir
This is not a zoo nor a museum. Ralf Marsault sera présenté au cours des prochains mois dans plusieurs festivals et rencontres en France.
Nice — 7 et 8 octobre 2026
Le film est sélectionné en compétition dans la section Expérience de la 26ᵉ édition du Festival européen du court métrage de Nice, Un Festival C’est Trop Court !, qui se tiendra du 2 au 9 octobre 2026.
Deux projections sont programmées : mercredi 7 octobre à 16h et jeudi 8 octobre à 20h30.
Épinal — du 12 au 16 octobre 2026
Projection dans le cadre du Festival international de sociologie (FISO).
La date et l’horaire précis de la séance seront communiqués prochainement.
Bidarray — 27 octobre 2026
Le film sera projeté en ouverture de la deuxième édition des Universités des savoirs situés.
Ambert — du 13 au 15 novembre 2026
This is not a zoo nor a museum est sélectionné à Ambert CinéArts.
La date et l’horaire de la projection seront précisés prochainement.
Paris — février 2027
Projection à la Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH), dans le cadre d’un cycle de projections.
Date et informations complémentaires à venir.
Here time stands still
Hélène Tilman, France, Belgium
In progress /art Installation
Multi-media installation backed by academic research in Art and Art Sciences (ED20, Belgium). Texts, photographs, film and sound creation (produced in collaboration with Alexandra Tilman reproduce in a complex and sensitive way the daily life of a psychiatric hospital located in a rural French area.
Here time stands still
Hélène Tilman, France, Belgium
In progress /art Installation
Multi-media installation backed by academic research in Art and Art Sciences (ED20, Belgium). Texts, photographs, film and sound creation (produced in collaboration with Alexandra Tilman reproduce in a complex and sensitive way the daily life of a psychiatric hospital located in a rural French area.
Sculpting the Self: The Body as a Device of Resistance, Appearance as a Poetics of Emancipation
Neutral Lila
Research-creation thesis in photography and social sciences
In our contemporary Western societies, the body is a screen on which it is possible to project a manageable and changing identity. Considered as the support of individual singularity, it is the object of possible metamorphoses.
There have always been individuals who express themselves and invent themselves through style. From a simple clothing bias, it can sometimes become the expression of a lifestyle that breaks with the imposed norms of a society. It is this second category of men and women, sometimes adolescents, that this project is about. Individuals with singular forms of life who intend to challenge the norms and scales of values accepted by the dominant fringe of society, opposing for example the distinctions it makes between good and bad taste, between culture from above and culture from below.
What links the practice of New-Burlesque cabaret, Roller Derby, Cosplay, Sape or Voguing? This is what this thesis attempts to highlight in photography and in the field of social sciences.
Hello, good evening
Emilie Balteau
Documentary film/ France/2017/53'
How does urban renewal affect the lives of residents of social housing estates? This documentary film, based on a sociological survey, shows and gives us a sense of the contrasting experiences of residents and their ambivalent relationships with the transformation of their living environment.
Cadences
Alexandra Tilman
Documentary film/France/2014/38'
Le Havre, a city with a working-class and maritime tradition, is now affected by deindustrialization.
Free parties clandestinely reinvest places abandoned by production.
A research film in visual and film sociology at the Pierre Naville Center, UEVE Paris-Saclay.
Produced with the support of SCAM (draft of a dream) and the Aid for Innovative Research of UEVE.
