Faire avec is a French expression that in Portuguese has the meaning of "acceptance" or "resignation" - "you do as you're told". In a literal sense, "faire avec" is also "to do together". The double meaning of the expression refers to filmmaker Éric Baudelaire's understanding of creative work as something that is necessarily collaborative. The director's films are often made with the people whose experiences they examine - filmmakers and revolutionaries, teenage students, independentists and terrorists - all of whom challenge the state institutions that assume their right to define reality. Faire Avec... is thus the title for a programme that praises these partnerships with the subjects being filmed, while acknowledging another form of partnership, that of the team behind the films. Éric Baudelaire "makes cinema with" director of photography Claire Mathon and editor Claire Atherton. From this creative triangle came three films, produced over the last decade, which are now being presented at Porto/Post/Doc: Also Known as Jihadi (2017), Un film dramatique (2019) and, most recently, Une fleur à la bouche (2022). Faire avec is therefore a programme celebrating friendship and working in partnership, which is why, in addition to the presentation of the three films made by six hands, two major works will be shown from the history of cinema, that inspired (and still inspire) them: D'est (1993), by Chantal Akerman, and Stalker (1979), by Andrei Tarkovski. As part of this programme, Eric Baudelaire will also present a masterclass in which he will explain his collaborative working methods.

Éric Baudelaire, originally trained in political science, has developed an oeuvre (comprising seven feature films and several shorts) based on research as a political and poetic tool to challenge power structures, through a cinema that explores - and is created at - the intersection of reality and its documentation. This path intersects with that of Atherton, who edited almost all of Chantal Akerman's films since the mid-1980s (as well as working on dozens of other films, including titles by Apichatpong Weerasethakul or Wang Bing), and Mathon, who has regularly shot the photography for films by Céline Sciamma, Alain Guiraudie or Maïwenn (having worked with Alice Diop, Pablo Larraín, Mati Diop or Louis Garrel).

FAIRE AVEC...

Also Known as Jihadi
Éric Baudelaire, 2017, 102' DOC
TRAILER

Un film dramatique
Éric Baudelaire, 2019, 114', DOC
TRAILER

Une fleur à la bouche
Éric Baudelaire, 2022, 67', FIC
TRAILER

D’est
Chantal Akerman, 1993, 110', DOC

Stalker
Andrei Tarkovski