00:10I think there are a lot of cliches in the city of Marseille.
00:15When I was young, Marseille was described as a dangerous city.
00:20It was dirty.
00:21It's a good spot for skaters.
00:24Not really safe to go here.
00:28For me, Marseille was the perfect city.
00:31It's this energy, the seaside, this sense of community and creative spirit.
00:41There is a place for everybody here.
00:52My name is Guillaume Deneau.
00:56I'm a graphic designer and also illustrator.
01:03We arrived only one year ago in Marseille.
01:08We are a family of four.
01:11With Adèle.
01:12Hello.
01:13Adèle, my girlfriend, is also an illustrator.
01:17And we also have Momo, the dog, and Mimi, the cat.
01:24The building is quite hot.
01:27I think it was built in the early 20s.
01:33There is a lot of history here.
01:37When we arrived, there was nothing here.
01:41With two alcoves, it was a very easy place to fit these wooden shelves.
01:48A lot of small objects that we really loved.
01:51Adèle, Adèle.
01:53Do you have a particular favourite?
01:54Yes.
01:55I love this face.
01:57A lot of...
01:59We have a lot of orange, green, yellow.
02:03It's the colours that we loved and we used in our illustrations.
02:08We hesitated to change this and put more colours
02:11because we have already a lot of colours everywhere.
02:15So sometimes it's nice to have more white stuff and not too much colours.
02:21During Covid, we were in the city of Nantes, near from the sea.
02:26There were two years of winter, really rainy, cold.
02:32We said we are not attached to this place.
02:35So we wanted to change and to move to a bigger city.
02:39And Marseille was the perfect city for us.
02:45I am doing illustrations since maybe ten years now.
02:53There is a digital work for the clients.
03:01I also have a more spontaneous and drawing part of my illustrations for my personal stuff.
03:11I always wanted to drawing things that doesn't exist.
03:16It was a way to create a sort of world between imagination and reality.
03:23I want to be in this imaginary city.
03:25That's what I want people to feel when they look at the drawings.
03:32I really love how the city is shaped in Marseille.
03:36There are big buildings.
03:39Also a lot of hills.
03:42I don't know why, but for me it's really harmonious.
03:4820 years ago, it was the first time I came to Marseille.
03:52I was really into street art.
03:55There was a very famous place in Marseille, which is called Le Cours Julien.
04:02My friend made me visit Le Cours Julien.
04:09And I was really blown away.
04:13Wow, this is so beautiful.
04:15All this graffiti that we wear, all those colors.
04:18For me it was a magical place.
04:26I think people who are doing creative stuff, we have to be curious to progress in what we do.
04:36It can be quite boring to always do the same things.
04:43Photography is one of the other parts of creativity, which is really important for me,
04:48where I can express myself other than the illustration.
04:52It makes me look the things different.
04:55I really love to discover a place with this kind of eyes.
05:02It's not so different from illustration because I'm looking for colors, shapes, movements, interaction, and some things happening.
05:14We just let the world do the work for us.
05:17And we just have to click.
05:31i love to interact with people but also i don't like to interact too much
05:41i'm a bit introvert but also i can't live alone
05:49it's a kind of both sides of my personality
05:59and between le court julien la plane there is a small coffee that we really love which is called
06:04a cafe zitou i really love this big illustration on the wall in front of the cafe zitou good place
06:14to have a cookie and a coffee the best cookie in marseille for me my name is asen and i
06:21work at
06:22cafe zitou here with gaël which is my partner in life we try to make good coffee and good cuisine
06:31we try to make something cozy and comfy like our apartment the interior is made with things that
06:39we took from our apartment to put in the cafe because that's a place where we spend a lot of
06:44time
06:47the food we serve here is a mix of influences from the french culture but also with the mediterranean
06:56side of marseille also the north african culture i was born and raised in for me marseille was always
07:04tied with this north african culture because before i came to live here it was a city i came to
07:11to take
07:11the boat to algeria it's like a hub for people coming but also for people returning to their homes
07:18gaël and i are not from the coffee scene but the energy that exists in this city makes you want
07:25to try
07:26i think the energy is built around like a rebellion against old hierarchy and things like that you can
07:35feel it when you walk around marseille that it's a rebel city not just another quiet city in france
07:53i think for me it's important that the things i see in the house is a kind of a beautiful
07:58momo it's an
08:00hot dog even if everything uh can't be perfect i have to find it beautiful
08:10here it's my workspace
08:14so you have my desk i work the morning here
08:19it's the place where i make all the holders for the shops
08:25one of my favorite piece of ceramics here this one this one yes
08:32two faces i try to make the both different sides each time i sell some of them but not too
08:40much
08:40because uh it's not really perfect
08:53we were trying to find a new way to express our work to try different things with the drawings
09:02we saw that there was a studio of ceramics just next to our apartment which is called atelier oven
09:12it was for me a way to work outside and not to be in front of a computer to do
09:20something with my hands
09:23my name is diane feketé i'm a ceramist artist based in marseille and my work sits between art pieces
09:31design pieces custom commission and really large pieces in ceramic
09:37atelier oven is an atelier that i founded six years ago i also give a few classes per week
09:46it allows me to step away from my production and connect with people and share things that i've
09:51learned over the years good students
09:58guillaume and adele started classes in my old place and it was very interesting for me
10:04they have their own creative world and it's really inspiring for me it's a kind of relaxed moment
10:11drawing without pressure just to have fun i'm not like adele because adele is really
10:19training new stuff she's more experimental marseille i think is a place where you can really
10:27feel a sense of freedom there's a lot of people working in arts design there's some lights there is
10:36some energy of the city have you seen the sunset yesterday you are able to see that almost every day
10:43in marseille that's crazy i have goosebumps speaking about it
10:55here we have a small garden with momo
11:01it's a nice place to to stay and chill
11:08the other day i was painting here
11:12people living upstairs that just put their hand watch and then say oh why it's nice
11:20so it was a really a good moment to chat with them
11:32i think i began drawing like every child very soon
11:38my first memory was drawing cartoons i love ninja turtles but also we had a lot of
11:46comic books like tintin lucky luke
11:50i finished art school and i started to work as a graphic designer
11:56at this moment i discovered the world of miyazaki
12:01and i began to draw flying structure only in black and white with a lot of details
12:09very inspired by the castle in the sky
12:14when i was graphic designer i worked with the kids brand they asked me to put a lot of colors
12:22funny characters and i really loved it too
12:25i started to mix the both things more colors less details i think the it was the beginning of of
12:38my style
12:44i'm very inspired by architecture
12:52i love the buildings in marseille
12:57there is a very uh famous building which is called la cité radios
13:03it's made by le corbusier who is a really famous architect
13:08you have a beautiful light beautiful colors too
13:12and people are really living in this building
13:17there are many shops where you can go
13:21there are a very nice library of architecture
13:28there is also a furniture shop with a lot of beautiful furniture and objects in the spirit of le corbusier
13:45i open a shop with um recycled objects textile jewelry art de la table furniture from the mid-century
13:59and especially french or italian and very where a model
14:06we are in l'unité d'habitation from le corbusier
14:11le corbusier did it just after the war
14:22you can find everything in the same building
14:28apartments
14:30commercial place
14:34we have an hotel
14:37gymnasium on the rooftop
14:40a lot of services for the people who live there
14:46it was the first unit d'habitation
14:50after he did four in in france and one in berlin
14:54this one it's the best one it's a beautiful one
14:57he did everything as he wanted to do
15:00this one
15:06when i was maybe 15 or 16 years old i was in a band
15:12i was also doing a lot of skateboarding at this point
15:16i only drew punk rock band skateboarding stuff
15:25in marseille
15:27y'a beaucoup de choses qui se passent in the cultural scene
15:34a lot of exhibitions
15:40so forest was more stimulated place to create and to work
15:46it's inspiring just to observe things around us
15:51i think in the experience since i've been here i have the impression that there is a lot of
15:57importance of the community
16:00it's easy to speak with people here
16:03people help each other try to create events for everybody
16:09shows concerts that can be free people that don't have a lot of money they can participate
16:18this kind of spirit is important in marseille
16:23i hope we will maybe meet more people and to be more
16:27integrated to be part of the community here
16:39we love to eat and discover new restaurants with my girlfriend
16:44one of the first restaurant we went was the babine de mars
16:52it was only a few weeks we were in in marseille
16:56there are a lot of very good places but i think this one is
17:01i had a special memory of it the owners were so welcoming
17:07it was the beginning of the discovery of the city
17:11my name is anne charlotte i'm igor i'm a co-owner of the restaurant with my
17:17girlfriend and associate
17:21babine in french means the lip and we say to licher the babine like to lick the lips we do
17:27that when we
17:28had a good meal and we had a good moment so yeah the idea was to recreate this in this
17:33place
17:35this is where we decided to settle a few years ago marseille in the center is there's a lot of
17:43things it's really hot and here it's more quiet it's a big city but small villages so maybe this is
17:50what
17:50people look for it's an intense city with a good characters lots of people from the city like
18:00speaking very loud you know when you're driving if you're not happy you can tag and everyone is
18:06like that either you love her or you hate her yeah yeah for me and i guess also for you
18:10it was love at
18:11her site we work with seasonal products all from marseille and we change the menu like every two weeks
18:20to be surprising our customers we go to the vieux port like every two days three days it depends on
18:29what's in the sea it's an amazing city because plenty of things to eat to drinks the seaside is
18:39really really cool it was important for us to stay near from the sea because we really love to go
18:49out
18:49swimming there is a special light i think it's marseille that everybody says that but i think it's quite
18:58true i never saw this kind of very intense light
19:07to go to malmusk you have to walk along the corniche which for me it's one of the best walk
19:13of marseille
19:19i think it's quite special uh when you go for the first time in malmusk
19:26for me it was the first time i experienced this kind of swimming
19:33you have to go on the rocks to find a place the morning is better because it's quiet and there
19:41are
19:41less people but in the evening or the night it's kind of game to have the best spots
19:54a lot of young people came here to drink to make parties and to enjoy the seaside
20:05it's a good place also to see the sunsets very beautiful
20:16i've been living in marseille for just about a year now
20:22and i still feel like i only arrived a few weeks ago
20:28because there's always something new to discover
20:33living here has a change the way i see the city i'm trying to understand it better and i know
20:41the
20:41next time what i love about marseille is that nothing feels too perfect the city sometimes messy sometimes
20:51it's chaotic but it's always alive
20:57it's always alive
21:20it's always alive
21:21so
21:23i
21:38We'll see you next time.
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