Meet Geneviève Anhoury

Geneviève Anhoury est une autrice réalisatrice française d’origine libanaise dont le travail est inspiré par les découvertes des scientifiques qui enrichissent notre rapport au monde. Au croisement de l’art et de la science, ses films, bien que très documentés, opèrent toujours un pas de côté, un parti pris esthétique qui emmène le spectateur dans un voyage onirique, comme La Nuit du Vivant, une série qu’elle a entièrement filmée en macro et au microscope, Pourquoi cherchez-vous ? dont les chercheurs interviewés sur leur processus de pensée et leur imaginaire créatif évoluent dans un décor de peinture animée et Astronome Gastronome qui raconte l’histoire de l’univers uniquement avec de la nourriture animée.

FILM IN COMPETITION FESTIVAL DU FILM MERVEILLEUX 2024 : ASTRONOMY GASRONOMY

Year:2024

Runtime:3

Country: FRANCE

Synopsis: To make a fruit pie you need the whole universe

Credits: Geneviève Anhoury Director Marc BoyerProducer

Director Statement

I have always been inspired by scientific images. My aim is to share this sense of wonder and cast a playful yet aesthetic eye on the deeper understanding of the world that science brings us. Using film, with its sound, images, textures and other immersive sensations, is my way of sharing the beauty and spectacle of that strange universe in which we live.
And then there is the joy of looking at ordinary objects in a different way, and connecting them with extraordinary ones. The idea behind the artistic process is to shine a new light on the world we experience and think we know and use novel scientific concepts to understand the actual physical world we really live in and bring it to life in a vibrant way, transporting us back to the joy of discovery we experienced in our childhood.
The language of astrophysics is already sprinkled with culinary metaphors. ‘Cosmic Soup’ is the name given by astrophysicists to the beginning of the universe. ‘Flambeed stellar pancakes’ describes a black hole swallowing a star. Edwin Hubble used a ‘raisin pudding’ analogy to help us understand how the universe expands, reminding us that the raisins do not separate due to an explosion, but due to the expansion of the «dough», following Hubble’s
Content: astronomy
Where do we come from? What are we made of? How did it all start? For thousand of years humankind has projected existential thoughts onto the night sky. Under the dome of the planetarium, we are once again placed in a position of wondering and reflecting.
This film will try to answer these questions: the principal narrative thread will provide important scientific information on the most up-to-date research in astrophysics (provoking sometimes surprising realisations like the non existence of time in physics). This information will be interwoven with thought- provoking reflections, concrete examples and witty asides to provide some light relief!
Images: gastronomy
The high-resolution images in macrophotography made for 360° will give an immersive experience of matter and light.
These images are filmed in stop-motion, at normal speed or high speed depending on the desired result. When photographed close up, the textures and matter of food have similar qualities to astronomical events.
A point of light comes from deep in space to fill the whole dome with backlit liquid spirals representing matter falling into a black hole, a nebula or our protoplanetary disc.
Food matter, whether liquid, thick, crystallised, solid, jellied or cooked, allows us to capture textures, transparency, glitter and colours which have a surprising resemblance to cosmic matter, light and gas…