STAY ART HOME – Volume 6

Cinema

Sorry We Missed You, Ken Loach, 2019

Ricky, Abby and their two children live in Newcastle in the North of England. Abby is an elderly people home assistant and Ricky does one job after another. When Ricky gets the opportunity to become a self-employed delivery boy, he sees for the first time the possibility of a better life away from credit. Once again, Ken Loach manages to address with all his genius, committed contemporary issues : he tackles here the liberal developments in the labour market and their alienating excesses. A deeply moving film carried by characters of unsettling accuracy.

Available for rent or purchase on on the Universciné plateform. 

 

The 4:3 Online Film Festival 

Since April 16th to May 18th takes place the 4:3 Digital Independent Film Festival by Boiler Room. The most eclectic minds will enjoy a wide variety of subjects: Detroit's electronic music history, the Palermo mafia, an immersion in Los Angeles lesbian strip clubs or cut scenes from David Lynch's Blue Velvet.

Choosing might be the hardest.

The program is available on the Boiler Room website.

 

MK2 Confined Short Film Competition

A few weeks ago we were telling you about the Mk2 Confined Short Film Competition and we wanted to hear about it. It comes at the right time, the jury couldn't help but share its first favorites which all share a very poetic dimension. Before you discover them, know that it's not too late to get started and take part in the contest: you have until the end of the confinement.

The first short selection is available on Trois Couleurs website.

 

Music

Into The Deep : Music for Lockdown

The Into the Deep label regularly pampers us with playlists like the soundtrack of our confined days. The coquetry is pushed to the point of giving them themes to help us find our way and let ourselves go according to the mood of the moment: rather Brazil, Funk, House, Jazz or New Age?

Available on Youtube.

 

Greatest Hits of Letta Mbulu

Letta Mbulu (77 years old today) is a South African jazz and pop singer who left her mark on the 70s and 80s with her energetic and enveloping voice. She mostly sings in Swahili, an East African language which accompanying her sometimes playful jazz rhythms, sometimes more traditional percussion. Her talent explains why you are directed towards her best of, but we warmly recommend that you start the journey with the majestic piece: Nomalizo.

Her greatest hits are available on Spotify & Deezer.

 

 

Litterature

Plume 

If your lockdown home includes children or you wish to offer a dematerialized gift for a toddler, go for Plume. It's an educational tool introducing children to writing while having fun and using their imagination. After choosing a world, the aim is to imagine a story continuing over seven chapters. At the end of the process, you can have the book printed.

Everything is explained on the Plume website and the first chapter is available for free.

 

The online bookstore defending the independent booksellers

"A real neighborhood bookstore but with the services of a major retailer and fitting in your smartphone."

This is the promise of the platform, which defends a local book economy and offers, for example, the guarantee of no shipping costs if you pick up your book in the bookstore around the corner. We love the themes and selections of the booksellers: these recommendations make all the difference between a distribution giant and the nice bookseller in the neighborhood.

Discover their website.

 

 

 

Art & podcasts

Shadow Work Podcast with the artist Saddo

The Shadow Work podcast explores the broad question: What is the life of an artist today? And for its fifth episode, Romanian artist Saddo was invited to the microphone of Matilde Digmann for a candid and raw interview. The artist admits to feeling "not at all creative in this context of social isolation". Saddo is an artist we know well at Quai 36: we had invited him to interpret a 192 m² construction site palisade from the Villanova Icône building site with our partners Legendre and Nexity in Gennevilliers, near Paris.

The podcast is available on Shadow Work's Soundcloud account.

 

Virtual tours of Ancient Egypt's treasures

If, like us, Ancient Egypt has always captivated you, you are in luck, we have unearthed for you virtual tours of the most beautiful treasures of this civilization ahead of its time. Thanks to the research of Harvard University's Giza project, you can now visit the tomb of Pharaoh Ramesses VI and the tomb of Queen Meresankh III from your living room. 

As a bonus, you have free access to all the archaeological research, photos and animated videos of the other treasures of the Giza Plateau, such as the Sphinx that we let you discover on the project's website.

The tomb of Ramesses VI is to be discovered on this website and the Queen's here.

 

FOOD LOVER BONUS

Les Confinades du Fooding and the Best Confined Table in France

Every other day, "Le Fooding", the famous restaurant guide, well, more like its bible, publishes a pictorial recipe: "a simple and comforting dish, presented and filmed by one of our favorite chefs, made with easy-to-find ingredients." It's no secret that even without going behind the stove, you can still enjoy mouth-watering photos and videos by proxy. And if you know all about the food, why not take part in the competition for the Best Confined Table in France? The prize: 1000 and 2000€ food passes to be spent in the guide's restaurants. A member of the Quai 36 team is also taking part...

You can find the Confinades rules on the fooding' website  and the rules of the best waited table here.