"Le Pickpocket", a film shot in and around the Nyon area, premieres this Saturday

On Saturday 29th September at 19:30 ”Le Pickpocket”  will be premiered at L'Elastique Citrique (Nyon's circus school). This film involves over 70 youngsters from the region and  includes scenes of Nyon and the surrounding area. Jonas Parson, one of Living Nyon's music and film writers, spoke to the director to find out more about this film. Adrien Borruat is an eighteen year-old student at the Gymnase de Nyon. But outside the classroom, he devotes himself to his passion: film-making. He started when he was 14, and he's still as passionate about it. He has just finished working on his last project; an hour-long called the "Pickpocket" This film is an amateur movie made by local youngsters and is led by Adrien and a core committee of three or four people ( his sisters, girlfriend and best friend) under the name of Vol Ô Vent Production.

Adrien told Living in Nyon, “Compared to what I'd done before, this is something new, on a much bigger scale. This is our largest project by far, it took a year to make and brings together about 70 people from the region. We want to have fun while making movies with a high standard”.  With no financing, the committee defined the profile of the actors and extras they were looking for before using their contacts to find the appropriate people, who all live in the Nyon area".

  “If pickpockets fascinate me so much, it's probably because I've never had my wallet stolen from me”, joked Adrien about the subject of his movie. “I love everything to do with magic and circus, and you get a bit of that in pickpocketing, you even get 'professional' pickpockets who use their skills to entertain!  More seriously though, when I usually start thinking about a new story for a movie, I begin with just one sentence – maybe the core idea of the movie, and then develop from that one sentence to get the whole movie; in this case, it's the story of a young pickpocket who discovers, on a camera he has stolen, the picture of his long-lost love, and how the search for her helps him get a grip on his life, at a time where everything is going haywire.”

Filming

The filming mainly took place in the old town of Geneva, in Nyon, and in some villages above Nyon, such as Begnins. Although it was mostly filmed in urban settings, the lakeside takes up an important place in the movie – “as a way to give the characters who spend their time in the city somewhere to escape to when they need some calm”, explains Adrien, giving for some beautiful scenes on the lakeside at sunset. “We took a lot of time finding where we could film parts of the movie, and it made me rediscover our region - and realise how lucky we are to live in such beautiful settings”. See a trailer of the movie below

Hard work

“Obviously making a movie isn't easy- organising filming days, that and the actor's availabilities and the unpredictability of the weather, it was quite hard work!  Despite all the different obstacles that came our way it was also a good experience to learn and to get better. At the beginning of the summer, the filming was over, with approximately 100 hours of filming. “Each shot is filmed about seven times, to make sure we get at least one good shot. Then I spent nearly my whole summer editing the movie. You normally count one hour of editing for every minute of the movie, I reckon I spent about 100 hours for the editing, obviously some scenes are easier to edit than others!” Adrien recalls one time when they were filming in a park in Geneva, when suddenly two policemen came up to them- Adrien was sure they were going to tell them off for filming in the park, but they only told them to keep their belongings close- and look out for pickpockets! “All in all", told me Adrien," this film was a great adventure, that brought together about 15 actors and 50 extras from the region, from 11 to over 70 years old. The music for the film was made by a local band, called "Insecure", in exchange for making a video-clip for the band. It was hard work and lots of fun, and the screening on the 29

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is the best way to come and meet us and see what we've done, and it's the consecration of a years work.”   “Le Pickpocket” will be shown on the 29

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of September at 7:30 pm at L'Elastique Citrique (Nyon) there will also be another screening  on the 7

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of October at at 5 pm at l'atellier de Mlle F. (Crassier) (to book a seat for the 7

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of October, send a mail to : collectif46@gmail.com) Free entry, donation at the end of the movie.