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Iris Aguettant, actress

Initially, there is flat water, or backwater, often even cloudy water: a skeptical municipality, parents despairing of their failed child, an industrialist who took the economy for the Good Lord. What do we do with all this?
When we are asked  questions about our animator profession, whenever we are asked what is our “method” or even what is our “approach”,  we are found to be a little embarrassed, confused, helpless; and we are because we would like to be able to answer simply:
“Well, this is what happens … initially, there is water, and at the outcome wine!” but we cannot pretend that the end result is systematic, no.
The necessary alchemy supposes a certain number of conditions ; first, consenting people, next,  jars that are in good condition, and specific measures taken at the right time. But this is not enough. The rest, the most important of all, is the quality of hope, this hope that will adapt to all forms of intelligences, sensibilities, situations, this hope that takes even a perverse pleasure to accommodate defects and errors. And this makes the perfectionist in us wince, we who have been begotten by the world of the rational and   “zero defect”.