A Film for the Climate - At the Paris COP21 tomorrow

According to a small French website, Massive Attack has joined effort with French artist JR and American filmmaker Darren Aronofsky for a film to be shown tomorrow at the opening of the COP 21 in Paris.

Here is the article in French:

COP 21 : DARREN ARONOFSKY, JR ET MASSIVE ATTACK S’ASSOCIENT

Darren Aronofsky et l’artiste JR collaborent à l’occasion de la Cop 21 sur une vidéo exceptionnelle, dont le score est signé par Massive Attack.

Aronosky (Black Swan) et l’artiste monumental français JR seront présents à Paris pour présenter une œuvre originale destinée à rappeler aux dirigeants de la planète, présents à la Cop 21, la réunion sur le Climat destinée à limiter l’accroissement de la température à moins de 2 degrés, que le monde les observe et que des résultats sont attendus. 

La vidéo d’intitule The Standing March. Ce travail, marqué par une musique du groupe de Trip Hop britannique Massive Attack, et la présence de 500 anonymes d’horizons différents, réunis, pour désigner l’universalité des attentes, sera projeté à l’Assemblée Nationale, à partir de 22h, le samedi 29 novembre et le 30 novembre.

La vidéo parcourra ensuite plusieurs lieux symboliques de la capitale, qui seront révélés par les deux artistes sur les réseaux sociaux, entre le 1er et le 7 décembre.

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Waiting for a confirmation from the band...

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More about the film project here:

http://www.konbini.com/us/inspiration/you-are-invited-participate-jr-black-swans-directors-new-project/

Extract:

Via a collaboration between artist JR and Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky a new project entitled 7 Billion Witnesses aims to film the portraits of some hundreds of volunteers in New York this weekend. These video representations will then be used as part of a mysterious exhibition in Paris. 

The piece will be based around the United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held in December in the French capital. These “7 billion witnesses” will reflect humanity as we watch our world leaders negotiate a climate agreement to shape the future of our planet. 

Volunteers to serve the artistic process

JR’s career began in 2001 when he found a camera on the Parisian subway system. From then, the French artist of Italian-Tunisian origins went on to explore the universe of European urban art, followed by the world in its entirety. Very quickly, his projects started to resonate on the international level: “On the street, I reach people who never go to museums” he explains.

Between 2004 and 2006, he created Portrait d’une génération (Portrait of a generation), featuring portraits of young people from underprivileged areas in the French capital, which he exhibited —in huge formats and, at first, illegally — around the bourgeois neighborhoods of Paris.

Portrait d’une Génération (Photo: JR)

In 2007, alongside artist Marco, he produced Face 2 Face, the biggest illegal photography exhibition ever created.

JR displayed enormous portraits of Israelis and Palestinians, arranged face to face, throughout eight Palestinian and Israeli towns and on both sides of the West Bank Barrier.

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Massive Attack and JR have already worked together in Paris. The band's music was also featured in Darren Aronofsky's masterpiece 'Pi', in 1998.