Ça s'anime en cuisine avec Delphine Piau

Reservation recommended: online registration starting 30 October

Their names are Kadi, Mawa, Mariama.

With their families, they left Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, and Senegal.

Crossed borders, sometimes the sea.

Their paths cross in this former high school in Paris's 18th arrondissement, now an emergency shelter.

Around a table, a cinema and stop-motion workshop on cooking takes shape.

A way to try and tell their story. Differently.

Frame by frame, their voices settle in.

Dishes become words.

Learned gestures become landscapes.

Scissors and glue pave paths that travel back in time.

And what was left behind regains its colors.

Step by step, something is woven together.

Fragile and alive, like these little cut pieces of tissue paper coming to life.

Opening up an unexpected yet essential space:

That of poetry.

And connection.

Delphine Piau,

Delphine is a documentary editor. Alongside this, she explores more artisanal and playful forms of expression, notably through stop-motion animated film and film photography.

This creative shared journey took place over several months in collaboration with the Emmaüs Solidarité team supporting families on site.

Sharing cooking recipes, she guided them frame after frame in discovering the patience of movement, and trust in what unfolds, even when nothing seems to stir.

On Saturday 21 November, she invites you to cook in the style of Kadi, Mawa, and Mariama in a workshop from 14h30 to 17h30: participants create or work with cut-paper elements (ingredients, objects, characters, landscapes, utensils…) and animate them using stop-motion software, a camera or smartphone, and a light pad. Paper cutouts come to life in short sequences, leading up to the film screening at 18h and a warm conversation with the filmmaker.