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Hélène Morteau, Elsa Vivant. Independent cinema scenes in northeast Paris. Interventions Economiques: Papers in Political Economy
, Association d’Économie Politique, 2020, ⟨10.4000/interventionseconomiques.7132⟩
Faced with the highly vertical logic of the film industry, individuals are self-organizing and structuring themselves to offer independent and fringe cinema in northeast Paris. The emergence of these new scenes responds to different cinematic desires. We will highlight the dynamics of the formation, structuring, and organization of two independent cinema scenes that benefit from strong local political commitment to supporting artistic creation and distribution in this area. Based on this empirical work, we will discuss the relevance of the usual explanatory models of creative ecosystems in light of debates in the field of urban studies. Rather than economic geography approaches in terms of clusters, we prefer the notion of a scene to highlight the role of aesthetic proximities in the emergence and structuring of networks of actors and practices that come to life in shared territories (residences, filming locations, post-production facilities, movie theaters, etc.).