Noire is presented by French Embassy in Ireland, Institut Francais and The Digital Hub

Noire is an immersive augmented reality experience where visitors will explore a custom-designed environment, enriched with holograms and a spatialized sound system. The experience is designed for 6 simultaneous visitors, each equipped with a Hololens 2 headset and bone- conduction audio headphones.

Based on Tania de Montaigne’s essay, Noire tells the true story of Claudette Colvin, who in 1955 took a stand, on a segregated bus in Montgomery. Claudette Colvin, a 15 year old black girl refused to give up her seat, Colvin faced threats from the bus driver and white passengers aboard.

Take a deep breath, exhale, you are now in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950s. Look at yourself, your body is changing, you are in the skin and soul of Claudette Colvin, a 15-year-old black girl with a quiet life.

You walk out of school, wait for the bus, grab your ticket. You've always known that being black doesn't give you any rights, but it does give you a lot of duties. You know that there are white people on one side and you on the other. Once you have your ticket, you go in and out the back door. Once you are settled, you also know that if a white person doesn't have a seat, you will have to give up yours. It has always been that way in Montgomery.

But on March 2, 1955, Claudette Colvin refused to get up. Despite threats from the driver, who was armed, despite threats from other white passengers and some black passengers, she remained seated. After being arrested and thrown in jail, she decided to attack the city and plead not guilty. No one had ever dared to do this before. And yet, no one will remember her name.

It was the beginning of a journey that would take Claudette Colvin from struggle to abandonment.

When, nine months later, Rosa Parks, a lighter-skinned seamstress, took the same stand as Claudette, everything changed. Soon supported by a young minister who had recently arrived in Montgomery, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks became a hero, the spark that launched the civil rights movement. History is in the making.

Claudette Colvin made it all possible, but she was the one who was forgotten. She still lives in the United States today. She is 81 years old.

Noire, the Unknown Life of Claudette Colvin directed by Stéphane Foenkinos and Pierre-Alain Giraud, based on the work by Tania de Montaigne, produced by Novaya in partnership with the Centre Pompidou, co-produced with Flash Forward Entertainment (Taiwan).

With the support of : CNC, National Center for Cinema and the Moving Image. The Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region. TAICCA Immersive Content Grant International Co-funding or Co-Productions. The French Institute. FACE FOUNDATION as part of the "French Immersion" program.

Supported by The Digital Hub, Samuel Beckett Theatre and Smart Dublin.