Located west of Paris, La Défense is often called the most beautiful business district in Europe. With nearly 70 monumental works of art erected alongside its skyscrapers, the busy, opulent neighbourhood doubles as an open-air museum. In The Great Arc, the French animator Camille Authouart takes the audience on ‘a poetic and social stroll’ around La Défense, with her beautifully textured pastel animations of the district ultimately evolving into a surreal meditation on class and shared space. Authouart draws a connection between La Défense’s public art and an unhoused man she observed sleeping under the film’s titular arch and resting against Alexander Calder’s steel sculpture Araignée Rouge, noticing how they had each become invisible to rush hour commuters. Blurring boundaries between documentary, narrative and poetic storytelling, Authouart’s immersive work forms a layered examination of urban life.
6 August 2026
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