Festiwild 2026

Insects

Proposé par : Estelle Contamin – Cie Lady Rocks

Cette pièce parle du minuscule en voie d’extinction, de la survie, de l’adaptation, de la vie et du chaos. À la fois sous et sur terre, des insectes majestueux émanent avec des costumes de taille réalisés en partie à partir de matériaux recyclés ou détournés. Par un slam politique et engagé, la voix d’Aloise Sauvage décrit les conséquences du comportement de l’homme sur son environnement et sur lui-même. Le breaking sublime la gestuelle des insectes saccadée, rapide, sur quatre pattes et en tempo le plus souvent binaire. Les insectes vivent la pratique de la danse comme leur clé de survie. Par le sens, les valeurs et les projets collectifs ils réussissent tout de même à être, à avoir espoir malgré la fin infaillible.

Phasmes

Fanny Soriano, Vincent Brière et Voleak Ung – Cie Libertivore

Une ronde de feuilles, deux corps pour un phasme et une musique pour transcender l’espace, Phasmes nous invite à un voyage merveilleux ou rêve et réalité s’entrecroisent. Au gré des sentiers empruntés, les corps se métamorphosent. Empruntant au minéral au végétal et à l’animal, cette chimère va se déployer, interagir avec son environnement et peu à peu dévoiler sa nature humaine. Convié à épier cette intimité, le spectateur est saisi par de furtives apparitions : le duo se déploie et se contracte, faisant naître des figures abstraites et évocatrices, tels des phasmes sans queue ni tête… Dans un décor épuré, les artistes composent au sol comme en plein vol un duo de chair et d’âme entre cirque et danse. Leur corps-à-corps, d’une grande force visuelle nous offre a voir la beauté brute du monde à travers une danse sensuelle et physique.

photographie © Loïc Nys2

Dans les Bois

Le limaçon – trio StrassCardinal

Elodie Robine, Yoann Scheidt, Sylvain Meillan

Dans ce documentaire, Mindaugas Survila propose une immersion totale dans la vie sauvage, au plus près des habitants d’une des dernières forêts primaires de la Baltique. Sans musique et sans commentaire, la bande son du film s’étire au gré de captations sonores naturelles. Sur scène les compositions délicates du trio StrassCardinal s’allient parfaitement au monde forestier filmé par Mindaugas, tout en jeux de nuances et de timbres. Est-ce le cri d’un oiseau ou le rebond d’une baguette ? Percevez vous le son du vent ou la voix du violoncelle ? Laissez vous emmener Dans Les Bois pour vivre une expérience visuelle et sonore aussi ludique que poétique.

Battements d’ailes sur le Fleuve

Joël Grare, Boris Jollivet

Birds and rivers have in common the crossing of landscapes from the mountains to the sea; the former through the air, the latter by carving their channels in the earth at the cost of a thousand meanders. Such a journey holds an unsuspected sonic world, a source of inspiration where boundaries blur. Here, sounds gathered along the water, broadcast in quadraphonic sound by audio-naturalist Boris Jollivet, mingle in a wild polyphony with the imitative music of composer-percussionist Joël Grare. A bestiary worthy of a cabinet of curiosities clashes with the timbres of an instrumentarium where the mineral, the plant, and the animal combine. Sonic realism gives way to a new imaginary folklore to better celebrate the fauna and flora in this ode to nature.

Has the earth fallen silent?

Pierre Tallaron – Cie Les outils sauvages

Has the earth fallen silent? is a walking performance designed for open-air spaces, blending immersive theatre, ecological awareness, and sensory experiences.
The audience is invited to follow a somewhat enigmatic character, a researcher-tracker at CNRSauvage specialising in animist poetics and metamorphosis dynamics. Through a route punctuated by stops, he offers instructions for sensory attention, unexpected scientific facts, and a captivating narrative that allow one to slowly and irresistibly enter into a sensory listening of all that lives around us.

Around a worm

LM Créations

One is not born a worm-lover, one becomes one! All about the anatomy and engineering of earthworms for an understanding of soil life. This performance is a unique object: half scholarly lecture, half musical recital, a rigorous, whimsical, and sensual scientific awareness-raiser. It is delivered by a duo of actress-singer and musician, driven by a jazz drum kit with multiple sounds, punctuated by wink-songs embodied in the moment, for an astonishing journey beneath the earth!

Since 2005, the company LM Créations has hosted the writing work of singer-actress Sophie Accaoui: playful and well-researched puzzle performances, combining musical eclecticism, a taste for language, and a desire for de-compartmentalised culture. For LM Créations, Sophie Accaoui develops, in poetic texts and music, the precepts of Popular Education: to inform, to raise awareness, to emancipate for a chosen society.

Don't just stand there like a lemon!

Cie L’aplomb du Bahut

A scarecrow starts to move to catch the crow that is disturbing it. Conceived in the style of Tex Avery, the escalation of situations brings the set to life… and the scarecrow, against a backdrop of original electro-hip-hop musical creation using samples of farm and nature sounds. The dancer and choreographer, Natacha Faillet, has one foot in the artistic world and one foot in agriculture. The show is fuelled by her conception of the living, and the desire to question our relationship with nature in our society and in our agriculture.

Natacha moves as much in the field of dance as in the visual and plastic arts. She taught hip-hop dance from 2007 to 2015. A graduate of Fine Arts in graphic design, she worked as a graphic designer from 2008 to 2012 for the company Transe Express and the Gare à Coulisses, a hub for street arts. This immersion in a live performance creation venue brought her back to the desire to exploit her years of dance practice for personal choreographic work. She began creating in 2012 with the company Lo Piaa Loba. She was a performer for the company Des Pas Possibles between 2015 and 2016, and for the company Les Crazy Dolls from 2019. She created the company L’Aplomb du Dahu in 2019 and began writing her first show “Reste pas planté là !”.

Pamy’s Secrets

Samuel Villien – Take Care of Yourself Company

Pamy’s Secrets is a nature storytelling show. The storyteller gets these little secrets of life from his Grandpa and Grandma who used to tell him stories about the whys of nature to explain the origin of an animal or the peculiarity of a tree through imagination. It is also an opportunity to question our relationship with life. Taking care of nature also means taking care of the relationship we have with life, with others, and with ourselves. This show by the Take Care of Yourself Company attempts both to return to simple things, while casually addressing the disparities between city life and country life, as well as intergenerational differences.

ImproviZashow

Theatrical improvisation show with 8 mischievous performers, 1 jocular master of ceremonies, and 1 one-man band; together they draw inspiration from audience themes suggested at the entrance and create simple, wild, and moving stories. Between Nature and Culture, improvisation takes its place to reconcile humans with their bodies and let their minds wander in the wilderness of the imagination.

For several years, the ZimproviZami·es troupe has been tickling the funny bones of the Diois region. Accompanied by Alin Curtet, 4 women and 4 men have adopted the codes of improvisation theatre for their great pleasure and that of the audience. They are a secretary, a farmer; they are an electrician, a dental technician; they play the role of an aircraft carrier commander or a garden gnome, they become a TV presenter or a zebra giraffe; they all have fun staging characters born from their imagination, based on themes proposed by the audience that very evening; live musical atmosphere with Franck on instruments.

photography © Stéphane Hugand

Sébastien Blache

is a farmer, naturalist and ornithologist. After nearly twenty years dedicated to the study and protection of birds within the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO), he took over the family farm, Le Grand Laval, in the Drôme region in 2006. He would form a GAEC (agricultural cooperative) with Elsa Gärtner, his partner, in 2016. Together, they would develop the farm with polyculture-livestock farming, where agricultural production and the hospitality of living things mutually reinforce each other. Co-founder of 'Réensauvager la ferme' (Re-wilding the farm) and a member of the Network of Peasant and Wild Farms, Sébastien puts his field experience to use in a research-action approach aimed at demonstrating that productive agriculture can also become a welcoming space for rich and functional biodiversity.

Photograph: ©

Ernst ZÜCHER: “The forest – seat of collective intelligence?”

Forest engineer, doctor of natural sciences, professor and researcher in wood sciences at the Bern University of Applied Sciences, lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ),Ernst Zürcher studies the temporal structures of trees (chronobiology) in particular. He is the author of numerous scientific articles.

Céline Curiol – “Invasives”

Or the trial of a nature reserve

In the Marais du Vigueirat nature reserve, where Céline Curiol spent a year immersed alone, the invasive water-primrose is everywhere, to the point of haunting her dreams. Beyond encounters with an entire ecosystem of plants, animals, women and men, it is the paradox of nature conservation that the writer explores: to preserve heritage species, humans must make disproportionate efforts, far removed from the supposed spontaneity of the wild.

photography © Patrice Normand

Claire DOUTRELANT “The blue tit”

50 years of evolutionary survey

Jacques Blondel
Anne Charmantier
Philippe Perret

Ce livre est une plongée fascinante dans l’intimité de la mésange bleue… et des chercheur·se·s qui l’étudient. Il révèle les mille et une astuces qui sont apparues au cours de l’évolution de ce petit oiseau en réponse aux multiples contraintes des bioclimats méditerranéens. Pénétrer l’univers de la mésange bleue convoque les méthodes les plus variées, mises au point par les quatre auteur·ice·s et leurs équipes pour aborder des sujets aussi complexes que la structure du chant, les subtiles couleurs du plumage, l’infidélité conjugale ou encore la lutte contre les parasites au moyen de bouquets parfumés. Lancé dans les années 1970, ce programme de suivi à long terme d’une population animale est l’un des plus anciens au monde. La Mésange et la Chenille invite à regarder et écouter ce petit lutin bleu qui partage avec nous  forêts et jardins.

Caroline Audibert « Faisons pousser nos oreilles ! »

S’ensauvager par les pistes sonores

Depuis Ulysse, nous restons sourds aux chants du monde, oublieux des puissances partout à l’œuvre et des êtres vivants qui en procèdent. Les sirènes d’Homère chantent pourtant “tout ce qui advient sur la terre féconde” ; en les écoutant, le héros antique se faisait le premier “audionaute”. Dans son sillage, Caroline Audibert est partie à la rencontre des audionautes d’aujourd’hui qui naviguent à l’oreille à travers les sonorités de la Terre. Des Alpes à l’Amazonie, de la taïga russe aux laboratoires high-tech et jusque dans les lieux les plus abîmés, l’autrice redécouvre le monde à travers un sens racinaire et malmené : l’écoute. Au fil de ses pérégrinations, ses oreilles – et les nôtres – s’ouvrent, s’affinent, l’augmentent et l’engagent toujours plus avant dans une écologie du lien, voire de la réparation.
“Si nous faisions pousser nos oreilles, le monde en serait changé” : telle est la proposition de ce récit immersif, poétique et initiatique. Au cœur des vacillements planétaires, une invitation à rejoindre une communauté à l’écoute des chants de la Terre, qu’il ne tient qu’à nous de faire grandir.

photographie © Alexandra Sabathé

David Grémillet « Les discrètes »

Rêves de tortues marines

Depuis 252 millions d’années, les tortues marines ont traversé deux extinctions de masse ; elles en affrontent aujourd’hui une troisième. Si vulnérables en apparence, elles ont résisté aux dinosaures, aux requins et aux crocodiles marins. Survivront-elles aux humains ? Les navigateurs du passé les ont chargées par millions à bord de leurs vaisseaux, les temps modernes les ont transformées en soupes pour les gourmets. Aujourd’hui encore, des centaines de milliers d’entre elles se noient chaque année, prisonnières des engins de pêche.  Pourtant, les “discrètes” persistent et certaines de leurs populations récupèrent des carnages du passé.  Quel est le secret de jouvence des tortues marines, alors que l’humanité semble s’autodétruire ?  Au fil d’une enquête planétaire, de l’équateur jusque dans les régions polaires, David Grémillet nous entraîne sur la trace des belles nageuses et des hommes et des femmes qui les défendent pied à pied.  Nous découvrirons ainsi leur long passé sur terre, leurs incroyables performances physiques, leurs migrations transocéaniques, leurs histoires de vie centenaires – autant de rêves éveillés pour un éloge de la lenteur.

photographie © Bénédicte Martin

Rivières Sauvages : « le Léguer, histoire d’une reconquête »

Lucie Galland, Mélanbie Taquet

Premier grand barrage retiré pour faire revenir des espèces clés telles que le saumon, dans un contexte breton avec de forts enjeux agricoles impactant la qualité des eaux, l’histoire de la renaturation du Léguer est un important témoignage et un véritable succès puisque la rivière est aujourd’hui labellisée Site Rivières Sauvages. Avec l’association en charge de ce label présente sur place, plongez dans l’univers fascinant des rivières sauvages. Embarquez pour un voyage au fil de l’eau là où la nature retrouve sa liberté et sa splendeur grâce à l’engagement des acteurs d’une vallée. Et si la Drôme et ses affluents pouvaient faire partie de l’aventure ?

photographie © Lucie Galland

Les mots de la nature

Evariste Champion: Musique / Alice Robert: Lectures / Jean-Louis Michelot: Conférence

La conférence sauvage « Les mots de la nature » propose une découverte de la littérature consacrée à la nature, en particulier en Amérique du nord, à travers : – une conférence quelque peu décalée et teintée d’humour (Jean-Louis Michelot) – la lecture de textes littéraires ou poétiques (Alice Robert) – des temps d’improvisation musicale (Evariste Champion, clarinette, voix, boucles musicales…) …sur fond de projections de photographies d’Olivier Grunewald, notamment sur l’ouest américain. Cette conférence-spectacle explore l’histoire de cette littérature et les modes de relation au monde vivant qu’elle véhicule. Elle rend hommage aux grands noms du « nature writing » (HD Thoreau, E. Abbey, A. Leopold…), mais offre des ouvertures sur des auteurs et autrices moins connu.es, notamment amérindiennes.

photographie © Olivier Grunwald

A l’école du vivant : transformer notre environnement en récit partagé

Sabine Oppliger & Anne-Marie Lo Presti

What if we took inspiration from the living world to support social and ecological transition? Faced with current crises, our relationship with the living world offers a powerful way to reweave the collective bond. Inspired by the book "À l’école du vivant – S’éduquer par et pour la nature" (Actes Sud, 2025), this panel discussion with the authors explores how narratives transform our sensitive experiences into shared stories. Far more than individual awareness, this approach invites common eco-citizenship. By listening to the living world, we thus reinvent the foundations of a more just, equitable, and supportive society.

photography © C.Abeijón Martinez

Guardians of the Birds

Directed by Muriel Barra

Facilitation of a discussion with the public on nature preservation (through knowledge and observation of birds) following the film screening. Presence of 2 young wildlife photographers, Elie and Maël Fumet and Marco Rébuttini

Muriel Barra Long aware of the urgent need to raise public awareness of the societal and environmental issues of our time, she created the company Lato Sensu Productions (in 2004) with the aim of producing activist and committed documentaries on these themes. Executive producer of Lato Sensu's entire film catalogue, she regularly works for French and international channels. In close collaboration with UNESCO, she accompanies most of her productions with Impact Campaigns, and also regularly takes on directing for more personal projects. Among her latest productions/directions: "Gardiens de la Forêt" (5×52’00 / ARTE / 2023), "Un autre chemin" (4×52’00 / USHUAÏA TV / 2019 / filmed Document-Terre), "Dans le sillage d’Ulysse avec Sylvain Tesson" (5×26’00 / ARTE / 2019), "Freedom, l’envol d’un aigle" (90’00 / USHUAÏA TV / 2015).

Stardust

Directed by Cécile Verstraetern

Birds and humans coexist and interact in prison, hospital, and on stage. Bonds are formed and question everyone's place among living beings.

Tristan Plot: Passionate about birds since childhood, it was through observations, readings, and then university studies that Tristan trained in biology, ecology, and ethology. In 1999, he entered the professional world of semi-captive birds, working on various free-flight demonstration sites, where the bird training techniques were derived from falconry. A profound re-evaluation of these techniques led him to the artistic world, where for over twenty years he has been experimenting with gentle methods of educating and presenting his winged partners. With mediation and transmission at the heart of his work, he became a specialist in unusual projects involving birds. He notably practices therapeutic support with birds in prisons, hospitals, or with disabled workers. His educational and artistic approach is based on respect for and contemplation of living beings. It is in this spirit that he works with Pascal Quignard, Sylvère Petit, Séverine Chavrier, and many others.

Cécile Verstraeten is a director of documentaries and short fiction films. She has always slightly blurred the lines between the real and the imaginary, so she makes films that question the boundaries – and their porosity – between territories, beings, arts, between normality and abnormality, humanity and inhumanity, the living and the dead, between species… Always seeking new experiences and hybridisations, she aims to push further the interactions between imagined realities and realistic utopias…

Fragile: Handle with care

For a year, the teams from the ONF's naturalist networks for avifauna and mammals, accompanied by scientists, conducted a study in the Integral Biological Reserve of the Vercors state forest, focusing on the Tengmalm's owl. This rare and difficult-to-observe nocturnal raptor is a threatened umbrella species. It is protected in France and Europe. The aim of the study, which this film retraces, is to better understand its vital habitat in order to preserve the types of forest stands that are favourable to it and, ultimately, to ensure the survival of this emblematic mountain forest owl.

Bruno Alles started making videos in 2014. He describes himself as a craftsman and has primarily made short films and a few documentaries, focusing on two favourite themes: nature and living culture. In almost all of his films, he handles all the tasks: directing, cinematography, sound recording, scriptwriting, editing, as well as colour grading and mixing. Based on his ethics and ecological awareness, he makes films almost exclusively in the Vercors region where he lives, and which he has loved for 35 years. Passionate about nature, he roams the massif, camera on his shoulder. Through a poetic and sensitive approach to the wild world, he highlights (and visually captures) the beauty and harmony of the natural environment. He contributes to raising human awareness about the rightful place we should leave for other living beings.

Photography © Bruno Alles

THE GREAT TIDE CIRCUS

Directed by Manuel Lefèvre and Alexis Barbier

On the Breton coast, a miniature sea has formed at low tide. A profusion of events unfolds there, with protagonists as varied as they are surprising. A splendid, informative, and fascinating wildlife documentary.

After completing his university studies in sociology, Manuel Lefèvre chose to dedicate himself to making underwater wildlife documentaries. A self-taught filmmaker, he self-produced his first film: a documentary about the locomotion of marine animals. Thanks to this first film, he managed to convince a distributor and signed a series of 12 episodes of 26 minutes dedicated to marine animals. The series was sold in over 30 countries. Building on this initial success, he quickly followed up with the direction of two 52-minute films, including The Wonderful World of Crustaceans. The latter received numerous awards, notably the Silver Palme at the World Festival of Underwater Image, and brought Manuel to the attention of others. Laurent Ballesta then invited him to join the Gombessa expeditions. As a director, underwater and terrestrial cinematographer, drone operator, sound recordist, and editor, Manuel is interested in all aspects of audiovisual creation. Curious and versatile, he is a true 'Swiss Army knife'.

Photography © Manuel Lefèvre

THE ICE RAFT

Directed by Jérôme Bouvier

Aboard a 15-metre sailboat, a crew sets off for another world, like astronauts conquering a distant planet. 

They set course for A23A… the oldest and largest of all icebergs. This giant, 70km long by 60km wide, 38 times the size of Paris, drifts like a comet in one of the most dangerous seas in the world, east of Cape Horn. 

Jérôme Bouvier est réalisateur et chef opérateur animalier reconnu, résidant dans la région. Il parcourt le monde depuis des années pour la télévision et le cinéma, aux côtés de Luc Jacquet et de Jacques Perrin notamment. Ses voyages et son activité l’amènent depuis des années à s’interroger sur la place du Sauvage sur notre planète. De formation scientifique, les 15 films qu’il a réalisés ont à coeur de décrypter et de vulgariser le fonctionnement du monde non humain et de ses liens avec les écosystèmes, souvent à travers le regard de témoins humains privilégiés. 

Photographie © Calandre Créations

Il était une forêt

Hommage à Francis Hallé

« Il était une forêt » Réalisé par Luc Jacquet • Écrit par Francis Hallé, Luc Jacquet

Depuis des années, le cinéaste Luc Jacquet filme la nature, pour émouvoir et émerveiller les spectateurs à travers des histoires uniques et passionnantes. Sa rencontre avec le botaniste Francis Hallé a donné naissance à ce film patrimonial sur les ultimes grandes forêts primaires des tropiques, sanctuaires de la biodiversité planétaire.
Il était une forêt offre une plongée exceptionnelle dans ce monde sauvage resté dans son état originel, en parfait équilibre, où chaque organisme – du plus petit au plus grand – joue un rôle essentiel.. 

Francis Hallé, botaniste français, fervent défenseur des forêts primaires, a passé sa vie à regarder les arbres naître, grandir, puis mourir. Bien qu’ils soient muets et immobiles, il a constaté au fil du temps combien ils étaient surtout prodigieusement vivants, comme il se plaisait à le dire.

Né à Bourg en Bresse en 1967, Luc Jacquet passe son enfance à arpenter les montagnes de l’Ain. Comme il le dit lui-même, il aime vagabonder et se perdre dans les bois. C’est là qu’il apprend à se fondre dans la nature pour observer, au fil des saisons, le monde des animaux et des plantes.

Attiré par la science, il passe une maîtrise de biologie animale à l’université de Lyon I en 1991 puis prépare un DEA en gestion des milieux montagnards à l’université de Grenoble. Durant ses études, Luc participe à de nombreuses campagnes de terrain pour étudier le comportement animal et l’écologie de différentes espèces.

Photographie © Sarah Delben 

Kogis, ensemble pour soigner la terre

de Alexandre Boucher

Présenté par Jean Louis Michelot et Ernst Zürcher

Five wise elders from the indigenous Kogi community of Colombia arrive in Europe. They travel along the Rhône, from its glacial source in Switzerland to its delta in the Camargue. Their ancestral wisdom, combined with current scientific methods, reveals innovative solutions for restoring the river’s natural balance. This meeting between traditional and modern knowledge charts an original path for ecosystem protection and environmental preservation.

Alexandre Bouchet is a committed filmmaker whose films weave a powerful link between the intimate and the living world. Through some thirty documentaries, he explores ecological struggles and the wisdom of indigenous peoples with an immersive and poetic visual style. Awarded for Belo Monte and An Amazonian Tale, he also directed Arc de Feu, a hard-hitting investigation into the timber mafia. For Canal+, he directed Green Cops, an international investigative series on environmental brigades, and for Arte, the collection Peoples Roots, praised for its human and scientific depth. 

Photography © 

Hello world

by Anne-Lise Koehler

10 species of animals, among many others, are born, live, and learn to live with each other along a river… The eagle owl takes flight to be born a second time and learn the night. The great crested grebe skims its fishing territory, becoming invisible and performing the dance of the algae. The kingfisher on its journey in search of a place in the sun. The European pond turtle, guided by the water and defying time. Leisler’s bat, which hears the evening symphony with its ears. The European beaver, this builder of riverbanks who cannot resist the scent of trees. The fire salamander, exploring both sides of the world, this strange marvel. The bittern, the reed bird that dreams of catching the moon. The great pike, which wishes to become colossal to live great adventures. And finally, the emperor dragonfly, this warrior whose armour is forged by the sun. All exclaiming: “Hello world!”.

Photography © 

Round table following the screening of the film “Fragile Attention”

Colas Rysiewicz, Thibault Lacombe

A study on the mysterious Tengmalm’s owl was launched in 2024 by the National Forestry Office. The objective: to understand the male’s territory use during the period of feeding the young. The round table will present the study on Tengmalm’s owl and the initial results.

Colas Rysiewicz, forestry technician, member of the ONF’s avifauna network, responsible for the local coordination of the study on Tengmalm’s owl in the Vercors RBI.

Thibault Lacombe, ornithologist and… resident of the Quint valley.

Natural grazing: the return of large wild herbivores in France

Sophie Monsarrat, Aurélien Giraud, Olivier Raynaud 

For several years in Europe, biologists have been pushing for the reintroduction of hardy horses and cattle to restore an essential function to ecosystems: natural grazing. Numerous sites have emerged, particularly in Spain and Portugal, to allow these large herbivores to maintain a mosaic of landscapes by managing open spaces and the rich biodiversity that comes with them. This return of semi-wild equines and bovines inevitably raises questions: are there not already too many wild herbivores in France? Can this compete with traditional farming and encroach on pastoralism? Can it attract wolves? Is it dangerous? Is it really useful? This round table aims to explain the foundations of such an approach and answer all the questions it raises. We will also have the opportunity to showcase a concrete, local application on a 170-hectare site in the Diois region.

Sophie Monsarrat has been with Rewilding Europe for four years, where she oversees operations across several rewilding territories in Portugal, Croatia, Ukraine, Romania, and France. She also manages various natural grazing and animal reintroduction programmes within the Rewilding Europe network. Prior to this, Sophie Monsarrat completed her PhD in Montpellier, then held several postdoctoral researcher positions at Aarhus University in Denmark and in South Africa. During this period, she studied the impact of humans on the distribution and abundance of large wild mammals.

Olivier Raynaud, director of Rewilding France, will provide local context for natural grazing by presenting the first pilot site established near Saillans, covering 170 hectares.

Photography © Aurélien Giraud

15 Permanent Exhibitions

Elodie Tribut: “ fragile ”

I focus my attention on birds and can’t help but take their portrait… in order to reconnect with the poetry of the Living and to raise awareness of the fragility that surrounds us.

I draw, I embroider, I weave, I paint, I “cyanotype”, I install, I cut… My guiding principle, for over 10 years, has been to defend biodiversity and to raise public awareness of the Living, and particularly of birds. I am not in struggle, nor in war. I live, I laugh, I am resolutely optimistic. I create and I act to raise awareness. Through my work, I want to allow the public to dream, to reconnect with what surrounds us, to savour the present and to preserve the future. My works are intended to be positive, sensitive, and poetic, in order to give hope…

photography © MorganeQuéré

SANDROT

Creation of several performance paintings

Sandrot, artiste performeuse Française, née à Marseille en 1989, est reconnue pour son style unique et expressif. Elle réalise ses œuvres à l’instinct, entièrement à main levée. Elle se distingue par les dimensions monumentales de ses créations et travaille sur des surfaces de plus de 300m2. Engagée auprès des plus grandes associations de protection de la nature, elle réalise des performances artistiques en public pour des villes et des institutions culturelles. Ses peintures sont notamment exposées au Musée Parcelle 473, au Musée Paléo-galerie de Salignac ainsi qu’au Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Marseille.

photographie © Sandrot

PYRODESCOL  : « Pyrogravures animalières »

Pyrogravures sur bois de differentes essences et tailles. Réalisées au stylet pyrograveur, les réalisations de Jean Luc Desgroslard allient travail de la matière et précision quasi photographique des détails. Le sujet est mis en relief à travers le jeu des dessins du bois et des effets de contraste obtenus par la gravure, la carbonisation au chalumeau ou encore le plaquage d’écorce.

Photographie © Pyro Descol

BASTIEN RIU : « Automne »

Un hommage à cette saison où la nature dévoile toute sa splendeur, où les couleurs chatoyantes et les lumières tamisées révèlent la richesse d’une biodiversité en pleine effervescence.

Photographie © Bastien Riu

BENJI : « Murmure du vivant »

Photographies du Vercors

Je suis un photographe habitant depuis 25 ans la vallée du Diois. J’ai fait l’acquisition d’un appareil photo depuis un peu plus de 6 ans pour partager mes excursions dans les montagnes. La réserve naturelle des Hauts Plateaux du Vercors est un lieu qui m’apaise par la richesse de sa flore et de sa faune sauvages et de part ses paysages grandioses.

Photographie © Benjamin Saunier

Guillaume BACCIOTTI  : « Vercors, Instants Nature au fil des pas »

Fleurs printanières qui émergent des prairies d’altitude, bouquetins acrobates sur les crêtes vertigineuses, ambiances automnales de sous-bois ou paysages redessinés par les brumes et les nuages qui s’accrochent aux montagnes… cette exposition rassemble des photographies d’instants de nature, saisies au fil de mes balades et de mes rencontres dans le Vercors, dans ces moments où la marche invite à la contemplation et au respect du sauvage. Elle raconte une nature souvent simple et familière, parfois plus spectaculaire, celle qui nous surprend et nous émerveille au détour d’un chemin, sans besoin de sortir des sentiers battus.

Photographie © Guillaume Bacciotti

Amedée BERIOT : fresque « La Nature sauvage »

We believe that everyone has the potential for vision, imagination, and the creation of positive and advanced scenarios for the future. Particularly in the hearts of the younger generation. This collective mural creation activity is an opportunity for all festiwilders to draw a piece of what tomorrow's wild nature can be, giving free rein to their imagination of wild living things and humanity's place: large fauna, flora, insects, rivers, forests, etc… With the aim of producing one or more giant collective posters at the end of Festiwild to be exhibited in a location: the monastery, the co-working space, and/or elsewhere. There will be one or more murals approximately 1.60–2m high and 5m long. Medium: Fine art paper or kraft paper. Technique: Colour felt-tip pens or acrylic paint.

Photography © Amédée Beriot

Alexis Pichot: “Primal Dream”

This new series is the third part of a trilogy dedicated to trees and forests. It is based on the wonderfully utopian ambition of the botanist Francis Hallé's association to “revive a primary forest in France”. The idea of the foundation is to protect 70,000 hectares of forest in the Vosges and Ardennes regions. To qualify it as “primary”, it will have to be left to evolve freely, without human exploitation, for a minimum of 700 years… Obviously, I will not see it in my lifetime! Thus, a new call of the forest was born within me. I began to imagine it, to dream it, I wanted to feel its fragrant substances, to touch its interstices, but above all to see it with an animal's gaze, an insect's gaze. To realise this dream, I made visible the invisible to human eyes. Thus, through a real nocturnal vision, I have illuminated this forest-world as bees and butterflies perceive it, beyond our colour spectrum. A magic then operates, and a dreamlike forest appears, of a new impression, almost underwater as if to remind me of its origin. I experience unique, privileged immersions there, on the edge of hallucinatory experiences, which shake up my way of being in the world, in the forest. I see these luminous colours appear before my eyes, transforming the known, the normal, into landscapes of a preciousness that astounds me. I no longer dare to move my feet for fear of “damaging” this scenery, born from the most beautiful creations of high jewellery. The primal dream series offers another reality, I hope an emotional state that could approach the oceanic feeling where Nature and Being become one. Thus, I invite you to embark on a modified state of consciousness, made of real dreams, presence, preciousness, by enveloping yourself in this medicine forest and looking beyond our prism.

Photography © Alexis Pichot

Gérard GRASSI: “Wild Notebooks”

What if the Wild changed our perspective? What if it awakened in us more joy, more attention for what surrounds us? What if what we call “Nature” was just an illusion, a fragile screen stretched between us and other Living beings? This open-air exhibition is an invitation to cross this screen, to recognise in every encounter the promise of a shared world.

Co-founder and coordinator of the association LYSANDRA Environmental Education, Gérard GRASSI has been an environmental educator and naturalist guide in the Drôme region for almost 30 years. Based in the southern Vercors, he sees encounters with the surrounding wildlife as an inexhaustible source of wonder and a privileged way to transform our relationship with living things. Photography naturally extends this educational commitment. From the most familiar to the most secretive species, his images are all taken in the landscapes he explores daily.

photography © G.Grassi

Giandra De Castro: “Museums in the Water”

Giandra De Castro: “Chimeras”

Anne Lise Koehler: “A Paper Nature”

Nature is the book in which our Future is written! The exhibition A Paper Nature presents wild fauna, life-size, from the region, and questions our identities between Nature and Culture.

After studying at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and then at the Gobelins school for animated film, she had a career as an art director on several major animated films, including Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998), Azur and Asmar (2007), and A Forest (2013). In 2019, she created and co-directed the animated feature film Hello World! with Éric Serre. Based in Champniers, in Grand Angoulême, she exhibits regularly in numerous museums. Alongside her artistic work, she teaches artistic anatomy at the School of Animated Film Professions in Angoulême.

photography © Marco Dutra

Olivier Neel: “Animal”

Emilie BREDEL: “Lines of Life”

A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris with a degree in textile design, colour, and materials, I worked for 6 years in the furniture design sector before deciding in 2011 to dedicate myself to my primary passion, drawing, starting first as an illustrator, then moving into 3D drawing with wire.

A lover of nature and its wildlife, for 15 years I have been constantly seeking its essential lines. Those that give life to inert matter and offer a poetic expression.Working from an ordinary material like wire to pay homage to the wonders of nature is an exciting challenge to take on. My goal: to make people forget the labour behind the elegance of the lines.Make them as obvious as possible and refine them until they reach a poetic expression.I work the metal wire with affection, seeking soothing figures inspired by nature. This fabulous nature to which we belong and which, however, Man too often thinks is his own.

This is what drives me: to participate in the awakening of perception, to share my wonder at the beauties of this world, to raise awareness of the poetry of the most modest and infinitesimal daily events, to help (as others also help me), to feel alive among the living.

photography © Kristina Bavenkoff

Francis Hallé – Jessica Buczek – Pierre Chatagnon: “Primordial Latitudes”

This exhibition combines drawings of plant species made by Francis Hallé throughout his career, as well as photographs by Jessica Buczek and Pierre Chatagnon illustrating the Polish Białowieża Forest, the last primary forest in Eastern Europe. Whatever the latitudes, ecosystems undisturbed by humans are the most complex, the most diverse, and also the most beautiful on our emerged lands.

Perpetual Dawn

The Great Birdsong Concert of the Five Continents

Presented by Bernard Fort in homage to J.C. Roché

An enchanting route, the park of the former monastery of Saint Croix. Several hours of a sonic escapade through Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, Australia. Since the world began, day has always dawned somewhere, accompanied by the immense clamour of birds to greet it. With the fifth day began this uninterrupted concert which, since then, has revolved imperturbably around the earth, indifferent to the times, to the centuries that pass and that men count. An unimaginable sonic energy with no other ambition than to greet the day. A perpetual praise to dawn, to light, and to life. “Perpetual Dawn” allows us to hear, at the same time and in the same place, this gigantic aubade. The birds of five continents sing their marvellous melodies in unison. “Perpetual Dawn” allows the listener to travel the planet without having to worry about distances or time zones. The small hand of your watch allows you, at any time, to know where you are and what you are listening to by referring to the time indications on the programme and the location indications on the map.

photography © sylvain daulin

THE GREAT SYMPHONY OF THE LIVING

Earth is a planet that sings with its landscapes and wild animals. Let us journey for a moment in listening through the audio-naturalist creations of Fernand DEROUSSEN.

Audio-naturalist composer since 1997 as a professional. Producer of over 100 audio CDs on the sounds of nature. Gold record with the titles "Seas and Oceans" and "Birdsong". Co-founder of the sound library of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris (MNHN). Author of the book "WILD SYMPHONIES" published by Rustica éditions. Participation in numerous wildlife films, dubbing images with natural ambiences and sounds.

Photography © Fernand Deroussen

Musical Nap – Sonic Immersion in the Sounds of Nature

Frédéric Cros

Sound and musical representation; settle in for a moment and listen to the sounds of Nature and wild fauna (rivers, waves, trickles, diurnal and nocturnal birds, birds of prey, amphibians, insects, leaves in the wind, rain and storm, the stag's roar, etc.); these accompanied by the musical sounds of the handpan, guitar, chimes, and rainstick; a space for sonic contemplation thanks to the sounds (recorded) that nature offers us.

Tales of Waters and Banks (interactive sound map)

Tales of Waters and Banks is a research and creation project that questions the relationships between the Diois territory, its waters, and its inhabitants. The projected sound map offers 24 stories of 10 minutes on average and 35 sound capsules to listen to. Authors: Caroline Fontana (sound designer and project coordinator), Yann Degruel (illustrations), Nicolas Guichard (interactive map), Bernard Fort (sound creations and mixing)

The association La bande sonore has been carrying out research and creation projects in the Diois region since 2012. Through various works, it has focused on the relationship of the inhabitants to their environment, and their connection to the wild.

Illustration © Yann Degruel

War Diary of an Ornithologist

Bernard Fort 

Musical and ornithological composition by Bernard Fort based on the War Journal of an Ornithologist by Jacques Delamain. Jacques Delamain (1874/1953) was both an ornithologist and a writer, which is his primary signature. Written in shelters, trenches, amidst ruins, or in forests near the firing lines, by day and by night, the War Journal of an Ornithologist naturally tells us about the behaviour of birds in our countryside and their relationship to human activities, but it also reveals the unique perspective of a man who, in this very particular situation, leads us to relativise, to love, to marvel. Here is a formidable lesson in observation, listening, respect, and humility. The war journal, a working tool and a testament to its author's passion, leaves us with a precious account of the state of nature, the seasons, biodiversity, and its density a little over a century ago in our countryside, at the dawn of major ecological upheavals… and becomes for me an object of meditation.

The ensemble is broadcast on an 8-track system: 8 speakers surrounding the listeners.

Photograph © Bernard Fort

Discovering the gravels of the Drôme

This outing aims to focus on what we generally do not see, or see so little of: pebbles, or more precisely, the gravels on the banks of the Drôme river. This walk, between the monastery and the meander opposite La Condamine (1.5 kilometres one way), will allow us to understand, from the mineral perspective, the formation and functioning of the river landscape: geological history, fluvial dynamics, the relationship between the mineral and the living… Beyond the naturalist dimensions, this hike will provide an opportunity to address the question of human relationships with the environment (aggregate extraction, drinking water…). This outing will be designed to be as enjoyable as possible, far from a lecture. It will be an adaptation of the theatricalised conference we have presented on this theme in various locations. With musician Boris Trouplin.

Jean-Louis Michelot is a geographer and naturalist. He has dedicated his professional life to the preservation of natural heritage. For the past fifteen years, he has sought to develop and share a sensitive approach to our relationship with the environment, combining knowledge, direct connection with nature, and artistic expression (writing, designing shows in nature or indoors…). He is the president of the association L'Atelier des Confins.

Photograph: © Alain Roux

Jérôme Breton: “Deep Time Walk”

Since 2019, Jérôme Breton has been running workshops for reconnecting with the living for individuals and businesses, notably Deep Time Walks and Work That Reconnects workshops.

The Deep Time Walk covers 4.6 billion years of our Earth's history in 4.6 km (1m = 1 million years). This transformative experience takes place over 4 hours, outdoors.
A Deep Time Walk helps put into context humanity's rich ancestral heritage and offers a glimpse into the interconnectedness of all life. It makes participants aware that the Earth is not a static, passive backdrop on which humans reside, but a complex, interdependent set of active players who have within them the capacity to radically change the Earth.

Photography: © Eric Lenoir

Laurent Desvignes: “In the Footsteps of the Lynx”

Discreet, a symbol of the wild and a hymn to beauty, the lynx amazes, fascinates and intrigues despite the rare opportunities to encounter it. Put yourself in the animal's shoes to discover its territory and the challenges it faces on its journey.

Photography: © Aurélien Giraud

ROMKO: “Randography”

What if, for the duration of a few pencil strokes, we learned to listen differently to the world around us? Young and old are invited to a creative walk combining discovery, collection and artistic creation. Along the way, everyone will collect natural elements, create compositions mixing textures, shapes and impressions, then experiment with the cyanotype technique to create a personal work inspired by and linked to our passage through this place. An artistic interlude in the heart of nature, between exploration, imagination and creation.

Romane Kolb is a nature illustrator and an artist committed to reflecting on our relationship with the living world. Through her projects, she explores the links between humans, natural environments and other life forms, combining creation, storytelling and awareness-raising. Her journey, enriched by landscape observation, drawing practice and artistic transmission, led her to create “La Randographie”: an immersive artistic approach that invites us to slow down, sharpen our gaze and transform an encounter with the living world into a sensitive experience. Through walking, writing, collecting and various artistic practices, she proposes to evolve our perception of the world around us and to question our place within it.

Photography: © ROMKO