International Tourism
Marie Voignier
Marie Voigner sets off on a group tour of North Korea and visits museums, artists’ studios, film studios and chemical factories. What she gets to see is nothing but a show, as big as the country itself – an orchestrated propaganda tour from start to finish. Marie Voigner records her visit. But how can you film a country that never allows uncensored pictures to leave the country?
We watch the tour guides present memorial sites, and listen to background noises in various settings, but the characters’ speech is curiously absent. Te director has turned off their voices and added a sound universe that is entirely detached from the images. In this eerie tone, the tour guides’ efforts fade into nothingness and reveal the constraints of the regime all the more blatantly. Using this clever tactic, International Tourism succeeds in undermining the image machine in a country that is constantly trying to present itself in a certain way.
Film programme Dreams Rewired
Awards for ›International Tourism‹
Prix Marseille Espérance, Prix Georges de Beauregard National, special mention, Prix GNCR, special mention, FID Marseille 2014
Marie Voignier
Born in 1974 in Ris-Orangis, France, Marie Voignier studied engineering at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne and at TU Berlin. She then completed an art degree at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, where she has been a professor since 2011. She also lives and works as a film-maker and artist in Paris. Her films range from documentary to fiction as well as intersecting with the visual arts. Her works are mainly presented as video installations. In 2010 she held her first solo exhibition at the Galerie Marcelle Alix in Paris.
Films by Marie Voignier (Selection)
Tinselwood 2017 | Tourisme international 2017 | One by One 2014 | L’Hypothèse du Mokele-Mbembe 2012 | Hearing the shape of a drum 2010 | Au Travail 2008 | Un minimum de preuves 2007 | Le Bruit du canon 2006 | Western DDR 2005
