The origin of Hallunissons find themselves in three friends who struggle to find meaning in the life projects they are promised. Following questioning, theoretical and empirical observations, their personal and militant convictions were nourished to finally give birth to a project that reflects them.

We started from an observation: today, many young people, especially students around us, are in mourning of a world such as it was told to us, and do not believe any more in the promises of the infinite growth, in the myths with which we were lulled, of a consumerist model which is not sustainable and whose destructive effects are more and more visible, day after day. It is for this reason that it seemed necessary to us to make known alternatives, opening potentialities of solutions and divergent and multiple imaginations.

We understand the notion of "imaginaries" as the result of a multitude of beliefs that form the basis of our representations and our relationships to the world, to ourselves, to others, to the living and influence our decisions and behaviors. It is therefore intrinsically linked to values, habits and social norms. If we start from the postulate that the social and ecological impasse in which we find ourselves today is largely the result of economic and techno-scientific imaginaries, of beliefs in unlimited development, progress and growth, the will to " shake up the imaginaries " is understood as the capacity to imagine that something else could exist. We sorely need narratives of lives, interdependencies, and solidarities that contradict the narratives of capitalism (John Jorda, 2018), narratives that remind us that resistance is never pointless. Divergent imaginaries refuse to accept reality "as it is", the "realism" that we must supposedly accept.

We are aware that there is no preconceived system, no perfect solution, and that is why we want to question the potential of concrete experiments. We want to meet people who are in action, who propose social innovations, and open the possibilities of a re-enchantment of our relationship to the world. Let us claim our right to dream, to poetry, to beauty!

Our research, readings and encounters as well as our interest in documentary cinema have led us to transform our personal quest into an associative project with the objective of encouraging initiative and proposing new cultural imaginaries. We believe, like Rob Hopkins (2008), initiator of the international movement of cities in transition, that stories can be used as a concrete tool for mobilization and transformation in order to find new reference points in line with our values. Using the medium of documentary film, playing on perception and imagination, seemed to us to be the right and adequate way to initiate a dialogue, especially through screenings and debates. We simply wish to exchange on what is essential to individuals to build the world of tomorrow.

We wonder about the way in which the places and collectives we visit integrate social demands, equality, inclusion of minorities and environmental justice. Indeed, behind the word "ecological transition" proclaimed by the public authorities and some environmentalists, there is often a guilt-tripping banner of greenwashing of bourgeois lifestyles largely inaccessible to the majority (like the electric car). We wish to question the capacity and the potentialities of local initiatives, as actions "from below", to be tools of citizen mobilization, and to generate the exit of the denial and the impotence in which we are plunged. We also want to question their participation in the construction of a solid popular movement, by collectively recovering the power of the local level of action.

We wish to open the debate on alternatives to the dominant model, diverse initiatives that move the lines, in every way; in the way of loving, eating, moving, living, exchanging, linking, helping each other, changing, moving... Geneviève Pruvost sees in the notion of 'everydayness' the capacity to metamorphose a known ground, conferring to it a political or even revolutionary dimension - in the sense that the alternatives to the norm spread and expand - the everyday being the major place of diffusion of practices. It calls to bury our hands in the matter to fight against 'the oblivion of the materiality which makes us live' (in the ground, the food, the market gardening, the artistic creation).

Thus, the raison d'être of Hallunissons is the sharing of ideas, struggles and experimentations of our shooting locations, of personalities and associative projects that inspire us. Because after all, isn't it in the margins that the promises of the future and the great evolutions of society are elaborated?

Of course, we are fully aware of our very limited capacity for action and it is above all a question for us of sharing our discoveries with those around us and of building a bridge between the world of our ideas and the fields studied.

WHO ARE WE?

Agathe Petiot,

Rosalie Moreau

Émile Thierry d'Argenlieu

3 friends, students in social and political sciences and former roommates in Grenoble