Etrange Miroir is an artistic laboratorium based in Nantes (FR), made up of musicians, graphic designers, developers, videographers and documentary makers.
We experiment with artistic forms that interact with human sciences and sociology, leading to a variety of performances, spectacles, interactive installations that question our society with a large audience.

We develop these formats in close collaboration with diverse actors of the civil society (researchers, associations, NGO, citizens…) and aim to spread their viewpoints as a full part of the creating process, situating reality alongside imagination. This research of new forms of narrations expresses the desire to create contemporary interactions between different fields and disciplines in society, in order to demonstrate the diversity of ways in which we can grasp society.

Mother Borders follows a young tunisian after 2011&#39;s revolution. Three musician and one voice(Marie Arlais) play live the score of the screening.

&quot;Le bruit et la rumeur&quot; is a graphic short film about the representations and préjugés against migrants. Based on interviews with two searchers : Patrick Scharnitzky (Psychosociologist) &amp; Yvan Gastaut (historian). As a their first piece, this film represents the basics of étrange miroir&#39;s work.

Moving Beyond Borders presents five interactive atlases accompanied by photographic images. The viewer is invited to interact with the atlases, choosing a language (English, French, Spanish, Italian and Arabic) and then to leaf through the vast pages of the atlas, triggering motion-animation in the maps. Information is revealed gradually, to the pace set by hypnotic and poetic sound compositions which provide the backdrop to the maps. A collaboration between the Euro-african network Migreurop and étrange miroir.

Firsts experimentations of the ATLAS project at the International Geography Festival in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. Tests of video mappings on the urban architecture / screenings of animated maps.

Mistrust maps, not migrants! This animation shows how maps can be misleading. 
initial project by Françoise Bahoken and Nicolas Lambert(link below)
Sorry, no english version.