There is no politics of cinema [live art], there are singular figures according to which filmmakers [directors, choreographs] strives to conflate the two meanings of the word “politics” that can be used to qualify a work of fiction in general, and a cinematic [dramatic, choreographic] fiction in particular: politics as the subject of a movie [a play] – the story of a movement or a conflict, the light shed on a situation of suffering or injustice – and politics as an artistic project’s own strategy – a way of accelerating or slowing down time, of shrinking or enlarging space, of combining or opposing gaze and action, of making or breaking the transition between the before and the after, the inside and the outside. One could say: the link between a matter of justice and a practice adjusted.

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