Sur l’écran de ses souvenirs, Lo Batèu de pèira

The work of Jòrgi Gròs is interested in cinema in several ways, but this interest goes beyond the anecdotal and constitutes one of the core meanings of this novel. It is first of all a history of cinemas and audiences, coupled with a history of films, reworked by the writer's memory, who has taken the popular cinema of the 1930s to the 1950s as a point of reference and blends in older memories from his father's childhood. It thus touches on local history, the history of audiences and the collective imagination. But above all, it is a very personal account of a total founding experience that will subsequently inform the writer's entire visual experience and mark his writing, not because it is "cinematic" but because of its eminently poetic dimension.