The Nights

NIGHT OF THE YEAR

July 8 2023
8PM — 3AM
Free access

The opening week’s unmissable festive event, a visual walk through forty photographic proposals projected in loops onto large screens, will take place at the abandoned industrial site of the former Étienne paper mill, exceptionally open for the occasion. Bringing together some of the festival’s favorite photographs, projects, and institutions, this great celebration of photography will feature performances, concerts, and DJ sets, with food trucks and bars on site.


PERFORMANCE
BATTTRIP AND TANGUY STOECKLÉ
AN IMMERSIVE ENCOUNTER WITH BATS
Discover the invisible world of bats. Where do they live? Why do we say “blind as a bat”? How can we tell when they’re around us? This scientific interlude will be followed by a live performance mixing images, ultrasounds made audible and hybrid creatures.


CINÉ CONCERT PERFORMANCE
MAYA MERCER
YUBA RING OF FIRE
THE PAROCHIAL SEGMENTS
"Eleven years ago, I exiled myself to Northern California, where I explored the local history and the current conditions of Yuba County.
In this series, invaded by red, everyone is brought up in a state of local desolation and share dilemmas in relation to their grounds. Most of the locals, the “Okies”, are descendants of migrants from Oklahoma who traveled there hoping to find the American dream. What happened on this land before? What is happening now through my own pioneer eyes?"
Steidl present a creation by Maya Mercer with Guillaume Tiger, Chloe Abrial et Samuel Mercer.


CONCERT
DOMBRANCE
RÉPUBLIQUE ÉLECTRONIQUE 
The INA presents “Electronic Republic”, the new live show by Dombrance, which has rhymed politics with clubbing since 2018 “for a dancing France”! 
A live, unprecedented, offbeat audiovisual show with archives spans 70 years of electronic music, democracy and French lifestyle from General de Gaulle to Emmanuel Macron. Don’t worry, there won’t be any speeches, just music and sounds! Dombrance and the INA present the illustrated soundtrack of the Fifth Republic.
Creation: INA with Dombrance.


DJ SET
GOLDIE B


PROJECTIONS
Carolina Arantes, Prateek Arora, Máté Bartha, Guy Bolongaro, Alexa Brunet, Tracy L Chandler, Dazed & Confused Magazine, Natacha de Mahieu, Der Greif, Fabrice Domenet, Annick Donkers, Craig Easton, Mahka Eslami, Tori Ferenc, Bérangère Fromont, Quentin Fromont, Samsul Alam Helal, Victoria Jung, Michael Liani, Manuela Lorente, Sofiya Loriashvili, Greg Mo, Alejandro ‘Luperca’ Morales, Sara Munari, Nemanja Nikolic, Javid Nikpour, Les Nuits Photo, Alice Pallot, Allan Salas, SAM_making books, Adali Schell, Prarthna Singh, Emilija Škarnulytė, Tommy Smits, Jeanette Spicer, Sputnik Photos, Stuck In Here, Kouta Takahashi, Charles Thiefaine, Inge Vermeiren…
Posted on 09.06.2023
  • Institutional partners

    • République Française
    • Région Provence Alpes Côté d'Azur
    • Département des Bouches du Rhône
    • Arles
    • Le Centre des monuments nationaux est heureux de soutenir les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles en accueillant des expositions dans l’abbaye de Montmajour
  • Main partners

    • Fondation LUMA
    • BMW
    • SNCF
    • Kering
  • Media partners

    • Arte
    • Lci
    • Konbini
    • Le Point
    • Madame Figaro
    • France Culture