Abstract

A majority of films about Corsican’s home, from continental filmmakers, rely on stereotypes and touristic gazes, often a source of humour. With Corsica becoming a crucial location for shooting, with the support of local film commissions and the increasing presence of professionals working in the film industry in-sitio, a new Corsican cinema, yet understudied, is emerging with a distinctive and rebellious approach towards the question of home.  Films from Corsica are a site of resistance centred around the question of home as a symbol for marginalised communities such as Maghrebi living in the island or Corsicans themselves. These young filmmakers (Thierry de Peretti, Caroline Poggi, Pascal Tagnati) will depict home with creative cinematographic gazes and original mise-en-scenes to question the liminalities between inside/outside, past/future, authentic villages/capitalist urban spaces. They deconstruct invisible borders between spaces, generations, communities to reveal the inherent violence of these complex contemporary territories and its new stories: home as non-refuge, home as a site for rebellious cultural reappropriation, home as clandestine, even home as a site of fire regenerated, echoing ancestral rituals for a sustainable living.