Julie Faubert's Performance 'Nous sommes au cinéma' Reimagines Immersive Cinema Through Collective Listening
Artist Julie Faubert created the performance work 'Nous sommes au cinéma' (2024–2025), presented at Cinéma Moderne in Montréal in 2024. The piece challenges conventional immersive entertainment by focusing on sonic experience rather than visual spectacle. Using thirty-four loudspeakers to broadcast pre-recorded and live sounds, performers move through the theater creating sonic gestures that blur boundaries between audience and performers. The work emphasizes collective listening and bodily awareness, drawing connections to concepts like 'critical listening' referenced by researcher Juliette Volcler. It aligns with other immersive sound works by artists like Zimoun and Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, exploring how shared auditory experiences can foster political collectivity and sensory engagement.
Key facts
- Julie Faubert's performance 'Nous sommes au cinéma' was presented at Cinéma Moderne in Montréal in 2024
- The work uses thirty-four loudspeakers to create spatialized sound with pre-recorded and live elements
- It emphasizes collective listening and challenges traditional cinematic immersion by prioritizing sonic over visual experience
- The performance references 'critical listening' concepts and connects to works by other sound artists like Zimoun and Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
- Faubert describes building the work through 'spatial scenes' and 'blocks of sounds' corresponding to ways of inhabiting the projection room
Entities
Artists
- Julie Faubert
- Zimoun
- Janet Cardiff
- George Bures Miller
Institutions
- Cinéma Moderne
Locations
- Montréal
- Paris