2019 l'année des Meufs ! par MerciSF

Une humoriste interviewée par une danseuse étoile, ça donne un podcast par comme les autres, une conversation intime et sincère entre deux femmes qui aiment la scène et qui l’habitent avec des talents très différents.Clara et Mathilde ont échangé pour MerciSF à l’occasion de l’ouverture de la saison 2 de soirées de stand-up comédies dont Clara est l’instigatrice et Mathilde l’hôte à la Maison Oakland.  Mathilde met cet espace à disposition d’artistes qui souhaitent exercer leur talent en toute liberté. Bonne écoute.

Delphine Diallo, photographe, est une artiste engagée pour la condition des femmes africaines en particulier. Elle nous parle aussi de sa rencontre avec son mentor, Peter Beard, de son "auto-transformation", de son cheminement en tant qu'artiste visuelle ; une vraie source d'inspiration.

Author of the New American Dream: From Maghreb to California (CNRS editions, 2019), lecturer in French and francophone studies at Stanford University in California, Marie-Pierre Ulloa interviewed for MerciSF Meryem Alaoui, Moroccan author of La Vérité sort de la bouche du cheval (Gallimard, 2018).The first novel to be noticed at the start of the academic year in 2018, La Vérité was the finalist of the Goncourt High School Students' Prize and selected for several other prestigious awards, including the Goncourt Prize and the FNAC Prize. This is a collective portrait of prostitutes from the popular Casablanca Zevaco market in the street of Agadir, centered on one of them, Jmiaa, with a strong character. Jmiaa faces the adversity of everyday life with determination and is not afraid to speak her mind.A shocking shuffle that takes us from Casablanca to San Francisco, the style borrows from Casablanca humor and the dialogues are strangely ironic. The language innovates by mixing French with Moroccan Arabic dialect (darija): "I thought in Arabic and it came out in French," says Meryem Alaoui.We could call them "The young ladies of Agadir": Marie-Pierre Ulloa sees the novel of cubist inspiration, as a literary interpretation of the painting of Picasso, Les demoiselles d’Avignon (1907), deconstructing the image of the prostitutes of the Barcelona's rue d'Avignon: just like Picasso's women, those of Alaoui offer a frontal, unconventional and touching look

We have been lucky enough to meet with reknowned French actress and movie director Zabou Breitman while she came to talk about her last project The Swallows of Kabul in Thêatre du Lycée Français.Coming from the traditional movie industry, she asked Eléa Gobbé-Mevellec to co-direct what became an animation movie with the blessing of Yasmina Khadra. This complex project took no less than 5 years, from inception to end.We were able to discuss with them about the creative process and we hope that you will appreciate the curious spirit of these two women. The podcast is in French.We will keep you informed about the release date of the film in the coming months.