Part of the Clair Obscur programme at l’Arvor

LES CORPS ÉLECTRIQUES — Raphaël Stora
Raphaël Stora learned to dance in hip hop battles, alongside his film studies. He then turned his back on the stage to become a director. At 40, he decides to step back into it. But the body resists, the scene has moved on, and the feeling of legitimacy doesn’t come easily.
Les corps électriques follows this return in the first person — auditions, encounters, doubts, archives. A film that lets gestures speak where words fall short: between a director and his past as a dancer, between two generations, between two languages. Featuring, among others, Saïdo Lehlouh and Suzanne Degennaro. A documentary about what we try to repair when we dance.

Documentary · France · 2025 · Arte · 52 min

SOUS LE BÉTON — Gabriel Naghmouchi
Between the layers of the city lies a fragmented memory, that of the first hip hop dancers of Châtelet-Les Halles. Buried under successive renovations and the absence of archives, this story has never been written.
Sous le béton weaves a dialogue between past and present, blending documentary accounts with fictional reconstructions. Through the testimonies of Koïsso, Jean-Claude Guibert, Marguerite Mboulé and DJ Chabin, contemporary bodies re-enact the dances of yesterday in the very places where they once existed. By shifting the archive into gesture and speech, the film revives a past the city tried to erase, and asks what it means to pass on a memory that was never officially named.

Film · France · 2025 · Le Fresnoy · Studio national · 27 min

Screening followed by a discussion with Raphaël Stora.