French Filmmaker, Aurelia Mengin talks about her vision about  aesthetics of new cinema that has blend of surreal art, mysticism, boredom and healing to rediscover the identity of a reality that the camera seeks to narrate creating meta-discourses within the boundaries of a localised space. Her influence ranging from Luis Bunuel, Salvador Dali to Jean-luc-Godard, the impact of art scenes, their corresponding movements, albeit symbolic, in poetry, photography and cinema, the semiotics of a synthesis between the Parisian life and the quaint tropical French Reunion, where she grew up as a child, with its queer talismanic beliefs, idiosyncrasies, and, almost an irrational randomness so peculiar to its originality, which in a way intersects with the conformal fashionable chic of the Parisian Salons, is a thread that she explores in a language of feminine intuition, asking questions or deconstructing paradigms a la Jacques Derrida, is a long lineage that puts the ideals of freedom and promise, like post-impressionist Paul Gauguin experienced in the late nineteenth century among the Tahitian in French Polynesia. In Aurelia’s own words surreal art deeply impacted her visualisation narratives, themes and the tonality of her cinema, her father, late Vincent Mengin-Lecreulx, who was one of her biggest inspiration, the reason why she ran after the camera, was himself a surreal painter who left Paris and lived in the Reunion to find a dream that may be discontinuous amidst the serial circularity of a existential time.

– JRC, Artist, Art &  Film Critic, Musician International Communications, Author and Researcher on Consciousness contact joyr.choudhury@gmail.com