“The Suspended Sessions” is a series of twelve musical sessions carried by short, light and offbeat fictional sketches, shot in Nantes. Today, place in Inüit aux Fonderies, vestige of the industrial heritage of the island of Nantes.
“The Suspended Sessions” feature twelve artists from the Pays de la Loire region, emerging or confirmed. Each takes possession of a place in the city to play a title from their repertoire. From one session to another, the fiction takes shape, involving around twenty actors from the region.
Director: Thomas Grandrémy
Production : Sourdoreille
Co-production: Stéréolux, La Soufflerie, Fuzz’Yon, Superforma, Le Chabada, 6par4, Le Vip
With the participation of France Télévisions / France 3 Pays de la Loire
Antenna and content delegate of France 3 Pays de la Loire: Olivier Brumelot
Four questions to Inuït
Why did you agree to participate in the Suspended Sessions?
We accepted the suspended sessions because it is a real beautiful project. This highlights the artists and places of our region. The fact of playing “in situ” has always pleased us a lot. We love ! And that gave us an opportunity to get together and play all six of us. It’s nice and good!
What is the link that you have forged with the place?
The Foundries we’ve all been there. Before you could skate there and there were mini music festivals. Today we no longer have the opportunity to go there but we have full memories.
What do you think your piece symbolizes in the skit?
In the playlet, we can see three friends who can’t find a night out to have fun and who spend the night looking for a place. Our song arrives early in the morning like a release. I have the impression that this “saves” their evening haha! It’s nice to have this role, especially since the desire of the group is to make people dance.
What is your most recent news?
At the moment, we are starting to work together on new songs again. The Sourdoreille session was the driving force behind entering a new phase of creation! We can’t wait to come back and play on stage to dance and have fun all six of us as well as with our audience.
12 artists in 12 venues in Nantes
This project was imagined by Sourdoreille and Stereolux, in partnership with six other SMACs in the Region: La Soufflerie (Rezé), Fuzz’Yon (La Roche-sur-Yon), Superforma (Le Mans), Le Chabada (Angers), 6PAR4 (Laval) and Le VIP (Saint-Nazaire). Each of the places participated in the programming of the series, thus propelling before the cameras the groups accompanied throughout the year in their walls. France 3 Pays de la Loire has joined the project and is broadcasting the series on the web and on the air from November 12, 2021.
From the Talensac market to the iconic Beghin Say factory, this program takes you on a musical Nantes road trip for 52 minutes out of time. Filmed showcases, yes, but linked together by short stories in atypical places in the Nantes conurbation. This “documentary” version will be offered to you on Wednesday November 24 at 11:05 pm on the France 3 Pays de la Loire branch.
While waiting for this broadcast and thanks to the interactive map below, proposed by Sourdoreille, discover these 12 musical stories today:
A word from the director, Thomas Grandrémy
Musical recordings without an audience have been booming for several years, the confinements and closures of concert halls have recently exploded this format. When we drew the first outlines of this project, it seemed essential to us to think outside the box by offering spectators an original writing.
The Suspended Sessions thus highlight the emerging local scene while mixing the aesthetics of short fiction, music videos and live sessions. A great freedom of writing allowed us to explore narrative and dramaturgical tracks where musicians go out of their comfort zone by being an integral part of the narration. Thought and written in full second confinement, far from crowded rooms, this series does not deny the year of isolation that we have just suffered.
The film thus follows characters, witnesses of a changing world, in sometimes comical, absurd or melancholic situations in which the music, fantasized by the protagonists, intervenes as an outlet, a poetic and saving parenthesis uprooting them from a gloomy daily. Like a musical road movie, the artists and characters invite us into Nantes settings little known to the general public or simply forgotten. From the emblematic Beghin Say factory to the Petit Breton velodrome via the Le Florida nightclub, meetings between actors and artists awaken the soul of these places, creating a unique atmosphere in each episode.
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