Project support

Audiovisual Media in the Service of Knowledge and Public Debate

Convinced of the power of image and sound to reveal and help understand the social issues shaping our world, Cirec supports research projects and civic initiatives led by public institutions and civil society.

For over ten years, Émilie Balteau and Alexandra Tilman have combined their dual expertise — in sociology and documentary filmmaking — to create sensitive and committed forms of storytelling: films, podcasts, multimedia platforms, written works, and educational tools developed in collaboration with research labs, associations, and local communities.

As a documentary production structure, Cirec supports research approaches and collective actions by placing audiovisual creation and storytelling at the service of knowledge, dialogue, and transmission.

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Here’s a glimpse of our collaborations and creative projects!

Research, collaboration, mediation since 2023

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“Help on a daily basis.”

Social work in families' homes.

A film made at Aix-Marseille University (project led by Pascal Cesaro) as part of a long-term collaboration with workers from the Association Aide aux Mères et aux Familles à domicile (AMFD) in Marseille. A little-known aspect of social work, that of home intervention, is illuminated thanks to the confrontation of their perspective with an audiovisual archive that presents the profession at the time of the creation of the state certificate in the 1970s. The story leads the protagonists to redefine the specificity of their profession as it evolves in a changing society.

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"On the paths to inclusion..."

Saying and showing disability differently

In partnership with the RTS archives department and associations that campaign to defend the rights of people living with disabilities , the scientific mediation program On the paths to inclusion… invites everyone to immerse themselves in archive films that talk about disability; to hear the words of people concerned who participate in the program and to organize workshops for reflection and awareness in dialogue with the mediation team.

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Rethinking Psychiatry

" Humanizing psychiatry, between intentions and realities. Back to the archives" and a sound and textual restitution of documentary research carried out around the archives of psychiatry from the 1960s of the Swiss Romande radio and television (RTS). Posted online on January 19, 2024, this work was carried out within the framework of the FNS HandiRTSArchives research program (May 2021-July 2023) .

The Flight

The development of urban agriculture is shaking up the traditional tools and roles of urban planning . The first film in a documentary series entitled The Developer and the Farmer, produced as part of the partnership with the Chair for Developing Greater Paris , L'Envol (58 mins, 2023) describes a project in progress, without hiding its difficulties.

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Valorization of research

Cirec strives to promote and highlight research, particularly innovative research in the social sciences that takes hold of and experiments with other forms of writing.

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Conference recordings

From filming to editing, the Cirec team makes its skills available to scientific, associative and creative events to produce aesthetic video restitutions in order to encourage attentive listening and observation, far from impersonal forms of institutional recording.

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Intersections
Exploring forms of research-creation in social sciences through film

Supported by the Maison des Sciences de l'homme Paris-Saclay as part of the Émergences 2023 projects , this research and creation work will take the form of a series of short documentary films involving research-creation in the social sciences.

The first episode focuses on the work of Ralf Marsault , visual artist and anthropologist, who questions the notions of spatialization of presence as well as the aesthetics of the margins of Western society, their creation of objects and environments understood as the production of signs.

Support for associative and institutional projects

Support administrations and associative structures and promote their actions through audio and/or visual formats

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Video capsules on the difficulties of accessing rights

Cirec and the REEL association present three short films produced by the Defenders of Rights and broadcast as an introduction to the round tables of the conference "Precarity and Poverty. The Challenge of Access to Rights.

These films give voice to people affected by difficulties in accessing housing, health and social rights.

Multimedia awareness-raising educational materials

Soon available on the ASA-Handicap Mental website, we have built awareness tools on representations of disability composed of texts, archive videos and video capsules produced with people concerned as part of collaborative research.

Intended for the general public as well as for specialist institutions, these awareness-raising materials are adaptable, accessible in FALC and designed for the creation of collective reflection sessions carried out with and for people affected by disability situations.

Training and support for individual projects

In partnership with local authorities, research and teaching institutes and art and cultural venues, CIREC associations offer support for projects carried out within the framework of research-creations and new writing in SHS.

The transmission of reflection and creative practice in social sciences is based on the team's combined skills in the field of research (sociology, anthropology, social geography) and in art (photography, cinema, sound creation, plastic arts).

This support is aimed at researchers in social sciences (master's, doctorate, confirmed) wishing to acquire technical and theoretical skills in audiovisual as well as artists wishing to produce a work within the framework of scientific reflection.

Individual support and group sessions are offered. The financial and administrative arrangements for the training are to be determined based on the institutional affiliation of the researchers and artists wishing to be supported by CIREC.

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