« Living Imprint, Industrial Heritage in Ardèche » - ENGLISH VERSION

(original title : Empreinte vivante, le patrimoine industriel en Ardèche)
France / 2021 / 1h30 / Documentary /
Direction, sound and photography : Christian Tran
Editing : Hugo Catalan
Music : Arsène Magnard
Drone images : Eric Goethals
Mixing : Aymeric Eustache
Grading : Philippe Chesneau
Executive production : Artis
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Synopsis :
The film is an invite to visit the Ardèche, with its emblematic industrial architecture and its skills; a journey toward human adventures and unknown remains, up to today’s renewal.
The film was a commission of the Natural Regional Park of the Monts d’Ardèche, in partnership with the “Industrial heritage” committee of the Ardèche.
Abstract :
In 1h30, the film describes the main industrial activities in the Ardèche :
- 00.00.00 : Introduction
- 00.04.47 : Mils
- 00.05.17 : The textile industry : silkworm farms, spinning factories, reeling factories
- 00.24.20 : Mining : zinc, lead, silver-bearing lead, coal, iron and production sites : blast furnaces and cement plants
- 00.40.21 : Paper mills
- 01.07.41 : Jewelry industry
- Transportation : trains (00.25.49 ; 00.36.30) and buses (00.55.20)
- 00.47.06 : Leather industry : tanneries, taweries
- And filigree, mineral waters and breweries
It takes the viewer on a sensitive walk through the area, giving a large place to industrial landscapes (with drones), to iconography (thanks to a subtle use of archive images - in partnership with the Ardèche archives) and to sounds (sound design).
Several experts share their knowledge about these heritages, on emblematic sites illustrating their words. They never face the camera, but speak off-screen to give as much room as possible to the sites themselves.
Beyond the activities concerned, the film treats numerous issues : water, children and women’s work, globalization of the economy as soon as the 19th century, innovation, environment, view of time, archives.
If this film shows the industrial past of the Ardèche, it ends on five cases of reconversion of these industrial buildings, which are today destined to social, rental, cultural and environmental uses. They thus give testimony to their ability to change.
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The main sites seen in this film are:
The film director chose not to name the locations as they are shown. It can surprise some viewers, but the aim is to take them on a travel throughout the Ardèche, where each site possesses its own history, but tells also something common to this area as rural as it is industrial. The closing credits meet the need to know exactly the places’ names to go further if necessary.
 00.04.24 : The Saint-Jean’s spring pavilion and the bottling factory in Vals-les-Bains
 00.04.47 : The mill of Raoul in St Joseph-des-Bancs
 00.09.45 : Silm Mill of La Neuve à Marcols les eaux
 00.12.10 : The textile factories de Champ-la-Lioure à Chomérac
 00.13.00 : Royal mill of Pont d’Ucel, silk mills of Pont d’Aubenas
 00.15.46 : Silk mill of Saint-Sauveur-de-Montagut
 00.16.00 : The Fougeirol factories in Les Ollières-sur-Eyrieux
 00.21.07 : The Payen company in Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban
 00.23.00 : Silk Mill and reeling factory in Largentière
 00.24.24 : Champgontier‘s coal mine in Prades
 00.24.45 : Iron mine in Saint-Priest
 00.25.49 : The Mastrou - Ardèche train in the Doux gorges
 00.26.15 : The La joie’s lead and zinc mine in Saint-Cierge-la-Serre
 00.28.15 : Lead mines of Saint-Marguerite-Lafigère
 00.29.01 : The Montredon’s silver-bearing lead mine in Largentière
 00.31.08 : The blast furnace in La Voulte
 00.35.20 : The coal mine in Bannes and the Doulovy viaduct
 00.40.21 : The Vidalon and Deûme valley paper mill in Davézieux
 00.47.22 The Cance valley tannery in Annonay
 00.55.20 : Espace Joseph Besset - wheelwright buses museum in Vanosc
 00.59.39 : Iveco Bus in Annonay
 01.00.27 : The white city in Viviers - Lafarge/Holcim factory
 01.07.41 : The jewel workshop in Saint-Martin-de-Valamas
 01.14.32 : The Ruoms querry and brewery
 01.15.28 : La Nouvelle Manufacture in Saint-Martin-de-Valamas
 01.17.30 : Dalva Duarte’s Gallery and workshop in Saint-Priest
 01.19.53 : MAGMA in Annonay
 01.21.30 : The Chirols spinning factory
 01.23.55 : The bats’ sanctuary in Saint-Pierreville
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