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NUIT · Thematic path

Lives we see too rarely.

From a Catskills house’s archives to older generations’ memories of love, this path brings together identities and relationships across different periods.

Follow the works in whichever order you prefer.

01 · Casa Susanna

A house and its archives

This documentary revisits a community that met in the Catskills in the 1950s and 1960s, through archives and witnesses. Approach the history of identities through a particular place and individual lives.

Sébastien Lifshitz

Read our introduction · Official presentation

02 · Les Invisibles

Love over time

Gay women and men born between the world wars tell their stories. Older generations enter a selection about relationships. The director is the same as Casa Susanna’s; the histories remain distinct.

Sébastien Lifshitz

Read our introduction · Official presentation

03 · Un podcast à soi

Continue through voices

Testimony and analysis address gender, feminisms and equality, extending the path towards social relations. Choose an episode deliberately: the programme reaches well beyond gender identity alone.

Charlotte Bienaimé · ARTE Radio

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A question to keep

Which generations and experiences are missing from the love stories you usually watch?

You can keep this to yourself or discuss it. NUIT does not collect an answer here.

Another direction

We love each other. What do we expect?

A couple rarely arrives without baggage: ideas about fidelity, each person’s role and what a successful relationship should look like. Three ways to open the subject.

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The words we use in bed.

Consent, normality, expectations: we use these words without always giving them the same meaning. Two essays offer different ways to examine them.

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We share everything. Even the bill?

Paying rent, organising groceries, finding time: shared life also happens in material details. Three works connect money with the expectations surrounding couples.

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Where do we learn to love?

Recognising a love story in a film can be quick. Saying what we expect from our own relationship may take longer. An essay, documentary voices and Mona Chollet offer three beginnings.

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Being visible. On whose terms?

Telling your story, publishing an essay, appearing on screen: visibility takes different forms. Four works change format and context without treating lesbian, gay and trans experiences as interchangeable.

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What if we made room for friends?

We find time for a couple and plan space for family. Friendship often fits into what remains. Three works examine its place in a life, the words we exchange and the families we build.

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