Documentaries
Telling a life story is navigating toward the other.”
Giving and Receiving
Film by the Graines de Rêves Workshop Produced by the Académie In Vivo team (Sorgues) In collaboration with the Insercall Association of Avignon – 2025
The Giving and Receiving Workshop is like a message in a bottle cast out to sea, where every word becomes an echo of what we offer to the world, and a whisper of what we hope to receive in return.
We are the seeds of our dreams.”
Film of the “Seeds of Dreams” Workshop produced by the Académie In Vivo team (Sorgues) in collaboration with the Insercall Association of Avignon
Shanti Panchal
This film is part of a series of videos produced by the Académie In Vivo, exploring questions of roots, homeland and home: do we belong to a geographical territory? Shanti Panchal is a renowned London-based painter who left India to work in Britain in 1978. He explains: “The world is a stage on which each of us has a role to play. On this stage, we are destined for a mission. There is an entrance and an exit. And this personal journey of self-discovery, through the obscure events of our lives, allows us to see beyond the realities that confront us every day...”
Ferrante Ferranti
Ferrante is an internationally renowned photographer and traveler who has spent more than forty years exploring the light, ruins and faces of the world. Trained as an architect, he combines art, memory and spirituality in works exhibited at the Petit Palais, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie and the National Museum of the Philippines, among others. The author of numerous books on civilizations and sacred places, he has also collaborated with Dominique Fernandez on major narrative works.
Giving and Receiving
This video was made after an art workshop that invites participants to create messages in a bottle. Between words, materials and images, each person deposits a fragment of themselves, and discovers what others have left behind in return.
A simple, poetic gesture to explore the act of giving and receiving: to oneself, to others, to the unknown.”
Storytelling and Visual Arts Workshop on the theme of Giving and Receiving, led by the Académie In Vivo team in Arles, June 2025.
Inside the Kingdom of Seeds”
n a 45-minute documentary film, we meet three people who care deeply about sharing their knowledge. They explain their work with genuine passion and enthusiasm. These are professions little known to the public, yet essential to our environment.
Simon Lang Directeur de la Graineterie du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle de Paris,MNHN
Valérie Priolet Responsable de la banque d’espèces végétales In Vitro de la MNHN, Paris.
Philippe Verchere de Reffye Ingénieur agronome, docteur en sciences, chercheur au Cirad. Il a créé les programmes Amap du Cirad, GreenLab de l’Institut d’automatique.
La passion de transmettre
This documentary was made during the first wave of the pandemic, when the whole world was in lockdown. For directors Marine d’Aboville and Enrico Clarelli, it was a chance to reinvent themselves while all their activities were on hold.
They felt an absolute need to bear witness, in a fundamental way, to “the passion for passing on knowledge,” a theme at the heart of the Académie In Vivo.
Christiane Botbol made the decision in 2019, just before the global crisis, to donate all her works of art and craft to the MUCEM in Marseille and to the National Museum of Benin.
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Christiane Botbol a pris la décision dès 2019, juste avant la crise planétaire, de faire don de toutes ses œuvres d’Art et d’Artisanat au MUCEM de Marseille et au musée national du Benin.