Philippe Pujol (b. 1975, FR) is a journalist, writer and screenwriter. He won the Albert-Londres Prize in 2014 for his “Quartier shit” series of articles on Marseille’s northern districts. He works in working-class neighbourhoods with people situated on the margins of our societies who nonetheless have universal stories to tell. After a period of meeting, speaking, listening, and participating, he grows attached to his subjects in the same way one would with the characters in a novel, heroes in a film or dancers in a musical. He then shares their colours, stories, looks, difficulties, journeys, phrasing, nonchalance, through text, image, voice, music and movement.

Philippe Pujol, La fille qui ne voulait pas sortir / The girl who didn’t want to go out, 2020 
Short film
A film written and directed by Philippe Pujol and Jean- Laurent Feurra
Commissioned by Manifesta 13 Marseille

His second film, La fille qui ne voulait pas sortir, evolves as a reference to a classical musical romantic comedy that carries a tragedy in the core of its plot and disguise the social conditions with dance and music. The film discloses fictions and realities of inhabitants’ daily lives in Saint-Mauront district, considered to be one of the poorest neighbourhood of France. The fictional and real persona unveiled here is Célia, a young girl from the neighborhood with a tragic family story linked with murders. Her hopes and fears for a future life, her desires, her musical presence, those are a joyful and harsh immersion in a piece of France, a threatened laboratory of the living together. 

* Work conceived for the occasion of Manifesta 13 Marseille