At La Découverte high school, cinema is not just entertainment, it has become a real language.
In partnership with La Strada, the Campus des Métiers offers its students an ambitious cultural initiative around cinema perceived as a tool for reading the contemporary world. Every month, BTS students from the Decazeville high school take part in sessions at a reduced rate, allowing them to discover the richness of the film program while learning about the history of cinema.
Far from a passive consumption of images, these screenings are part of a structured educational approach: exploring cinema through major themes that question our time. The fantastic has thus opened the way to a reflection on fear and the invisible, through notable works such as “The Conjuring”. As for science fiction, it has become a field for exploring the links between scientific progress and collective imagination, illustrated by films such as “Avatar” or “Running Man”. Other sessions offered the opportunity to explore the representations of nature, as well as American comedy, understood as a mirror of society and the tensions that run through it.
Pluralité des échanges
The attention paid to the diversity of works distinguishes these encounters. The program skilfully combines commercial cinema and more demanding films, allowing students to navigate between different aesthetic and narrative registers.
This plurality fuels particularly rich exchanges after the screenings; points of view are confronted, refined and sometimes transformed. “Driven by the commitment of teachers and the Campus des Métiers, this project is fully in line with the identity of La Découverte high school, where aesthetic forms occupy a central place in learning. At a time when images saturate our daily lives, this initiative appears as a response valuable: offering moments of cultural openness, training enlightened students, capable of analysis and critical perspective”, report the teachers.
