Reanimated Images, Corpus Christi in Geispolsheim

Authors : Georges Drion & Odile de Gozillon-Fonsacq
Director : Georges Drion
Camera : Johny Rabines
Sound : Gilles Guigue & William Franck
Editing : Roland Mathis
Year : 2002
Length : 26 min
Coproduction with France 3 Alsace
French version only


The film follows pupils of Geispolsheim Secondary School in their quest to discover local traditions around Corpus Christi. They visit different people in the village, watching archives at the Strasbourg TV Archive (INA) and continue their enquiry at the Alsatian Museum.

Using old film archives they go on to identify and find people who were filmed during a Procession in the twenties. By « reanimating » memories of these participants of this Corpus Christi they begin to put these images back in their context giving them sense in the midst of a village community.