During her residency at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervillers that began in January 2015, Pauline Simon developed several research themes, a project that in April 2016 culminated in the premiere of Postérieurs (le future n’existe pas mais des futures insistent) at La Ménagérie de Verre in Paris — a choreographic piece in which the Future can be observed from non-anthropocentric perspectives.

During her residency at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervillers that began in January 2015, Pauline Simon developed several research themes, a project that in April 2016 culminated in the premiere of Postérieurs (le future n’existe pas mais des futures insistent) at La Ménagérie de Verre in Paris — a choreographic piece in which the Future can be observed from non-anthropocentric perspectives.

Several months later, this new piece that is constantly reworked from the inside will now be showing at Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers. Les Laboratoires has also invited the Braquage organisation to reflect with Pauline Simon on a programme of experimental films and auteurs, to put together a set of sources that bring to light, amplify, subvert, shift and reinforce the themes developed in Pauline Simon’s choreographic piece.

Pauline Simon is a choreographer, dancer and amateur musician. She trained in the contemporary section at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. She performs for Joanne Leighton and Mickaël Phelippeau and in her own projects; she has also collaborated with Ambra Senatore on a performance piece, La Vente aux enchères, and acts as outside eye (for Volmir Cordeiro, Ines,…). 

In 2012, with her Exploit project, she was laureate of the Danse élargie competition organised by Boris Charmatz. In 2013, she presented Sérendipité, then Perlaborer with Vincent Dissez, in the ‘Sujets à Vif’ section of the Avignon festival. With the Suprabénigne organisation, Pauline has been developing over the last three years a singular artistic process involving dance, performance and theatre, exploring the notions of language, identity, representation and perception.

The aim of the Braquage / Aménagements expérimentaux organisation is to foster discovery of and engagement with experimental cinema by organising screenings, festivals, discussions (with filmmakers, writers…), lectures and training sessions, as well as practical introductory workshops. Founded in 2000, Braquage is an independent organisation under the French law of 1901, run by filmmakers, teachers, programmers and artists.

Over the last fifteen years or so Braquage has organised around 500 experimental cinema screenings, mixing historical and contemporary films. The programmes are shown both in alternative venues and institutions (FEMIS, Cinémathèque française, Centre Pompidou, Musées des Beaux-Arts, Forum des Images, Nanterre hospital, Musée de la Danse…), and in festivals such as the Bobigny, Saint-Denis, La Rochelle, Belfort, Dreux, Châteuaroux festivals, etc. Braquage has also organised screenings in Lille, Strasbourg, Belfort, Saint-Étienne, Toulouse, La Rochelle, Rennes, Le Havre, Rouen, and abroad (in Europe, the United States, Brazil…).