2023-10-03 10:30:06
The La Clef cinema, in Paris, January 16, 2020. PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP
Would you like to participate, even if only for a few euros, in the purchase of a former arthouse cinema? Well, now is the time! It’s been four years since a collective of cinema professionals, La Clef Revival, has been fighting to buy La Clef, in Paris (5th arrondissement), a historic venue in the Latin Quarter, closed since April 2018. And the home stretch, until as of October 31, promises to be tight.
The idea is to revive the establishment, not as a classic cinema hall, with weekly film releases, but as an off-market place (a “common good”) with a program of rare, cult, or more first works, short or feature films. The price would be free, everyone would give what they can but, for each ticket, the usual tax (known as “TSA”, approximately 10% of the ticket price) would be paid to the National Center for Cinema and Culture. animated image. La Clef would thus participate, in its own way, in the cinema financing ecosystem. The building would also include creative spaces, welcoming professionals, from the writing of a film to post-production.
On April 26, La Clef Revival signed a purchase agreement (valid for six months) with the owner of the place, the works council of the Caisse d’Epargne d’Ile-de-France, for an amount of 2, 9 million euros – 3.1 million euros with notary fees. The collective has already raised more than 1 million euros in sponsorship and nearly 300,000 euros in donations, through the HelloAsso platform – 4,000 donors to date. The goal is to reach 400,000 euros in donations by the end of October.
In the world of cinema, some have already taken out their portfolios – Swann Arlaud, Adèle Haenel, Agnès Jaoui, Leos Carax, Céline Sciamma, Cédric Klapisch, producer Marie-Ange Luciani (Les Films de Pierre), producer and distributor Ronald Chammah (Les Films du Camélia), etc. Other professionals are called upon, such as film laboratories, down to the last cent necessary, the situation for obtaining a bank loan having toughened, with the rise in rates.
Support from Martin Scorsese
Finally, a sale of works of art at a fixed price (and not by auction), entitled “Everything must disappear”, will be organized at the Palais de Tokyo, in Paris, on October 28 and 29, with a public opening from the 27 october. “He is the contemporary artist Neïl Beloufa, son of the Algerian filmmaker Farouk Beloufa [auteur de Nahla, 1979]who gave us the idea of this non-speculative sale, the proceeds of which will go to the repurchase of La Clef, explains Camille Degeye, screenwriter and member of the La Clef Revival collective, one of the coordinators of the sponsorship center. Around eighty artists responded, such as the Chinese documentary filmmaker Wang Bing, the American photographer Nan Goldin, the filmmakers Alain Guiraudie, Marie Losier, the singer and actor Philippe Katerine, etc. The month of October will be dedicated to finding buyers, with the help of the galleries, who help us target. »
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