FIIE, Festival de l’Image Environnementale, focuses our eye on the environment - with art in Paris

How does one manage to get people’s attention to focus on the environment time and time again? Perhaps art will do the trick.

The Festival International de l’Image environnementale (FIIE), tries to sensitise our eye for beauty in the environment with the many genres and disciplines fine art has to offer: from photography, installation to film. GoSee Film presents an inviting overview of the event.

This year, 80 artists were commissioned to create works on the subject and present the results. 40 of them are photographers.

Each festival contribution is made in an environmentally friendly way and perfected in an organic production, certified by NGO WWF.

38 huge photographic prints are placed between trees along the Bassin de La Villette, at the river Seine bank, Paris. They beckon visual people over to take part in a 120m long photographic walk.

The Holiday Inn Express has provided space for projections, talks and performances.

We have attached an overview of the works by Vanessa Chambard and Yao Lu. An additional example of film work is the incredible ‘Homeproject’ montage by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. It is a truly expressive piece with a bird’s eye view of humankind and its environment.

FIIE is taking place for the third time. To our knowledge, and that of the event organisers, it is the world’s first event of its kind.


FIIE, Paris
26 June – 4 July 2010
www.fiie.fr