2023-05-23 11:58:15
The members of the Cut! collective, Monday May 22, at the Cannes Film Festival. LOIC VENANCE, AFP
Isabelle Adjani, Louis Garrel and Matthieu Chedid are among the more than 400 signatories of a forum calling for a reduction in the sector’s ecological footprint.
Serious remonstrances addressed to the dream industry. Led by writer and activist Cyril Diona few dozen film professionals, members of the Cut! collective, took over the steps of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes on Monday to raise awareness in the world of the seventh art of the need “general mobilization” involved in the fight against global warming.
For this publicity stunt, made before the screening of Jessica Hausner’s film, Club Zero in the official selection, the various participants brandished sheets inscribed with the name of their profession: “sound engineer”, “actress”, “exporter”, “operator”, “director”, etc. In the first row, letters spelled the name of the Cut! collective, chosen as an acronym for “Cinema united for the transition”. The same day, the collective published a forum in the pages of Monde , “so that the 7ᵉ art is urgently at the service of ecology”.
“Cinema is a polluting industry»
The collective Cut! is supported by more than 400 film professionals, including Natalie Portman, Isabelle Adjani, Louis Garrel, Eric Toledano, Emmanuelle Bercot or even by the musician Matthew Chedidas an author of film music.
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Starting from the principle that “the climate is changing at full speed” and “Cinema is a polluting and extractive industry”the collective calls for action in favor of the climate by minimizing the ecological footprint of industry, “maximizing the dissemination of works whose priority is the societal impact” et “write stories that allow you to project yourself into a fairer and more sustainable model of society”.
On the collective’s digital platformthe objective of the signatories shows an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the film industry by 2025. This horizon line must allow the industry to achieve carbon neutrality and thus respect the Paris Agreements across its economic sector.
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