Rapper RK is at the heart of a documentary on France.tv Slash.
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Francetv flash / Benjamin Montel and Yoan Zerbit
As part of its “Jump” series, France.tv Slash is devoting a documentary to RK.
For 45 minutes, directors Benjamin Montel and Yoan Zerbit offer to discover the young rapper from Meaux in an intimate setting, closer to his daily life.
Gims, Bigflo and Oli, Médine… Documentary releases on French rap figures follow one another.
And it's now up to young RK to join them, with a 45-minute doc devoted to him by France.tv Slash, available this Friday.
The directors Benjamin Montel and Yoan Zerbit followed for ten days (spread over a year), the rapper from Meaux, a real phenomenon who has three albums to his credit (including the last
Neverland
released last July), and already several discs gold and platinum ...
After two first episodes devoted to Clara Luciani and Chilla, this documentary is part of the
Jump
collection
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from France.tv Slash, which "has the will and the ambition to scan the new French scene in all that it includes, pop, variety, rap ...", explains to
20 Minutes
Benjamin Montel, director and co -creator of the collection with Manuel Herrero.
But this is not a simple musical scanner, nor a promotional film.
"There is a beginning, an end, between the two a big dream and obstacles"
"What interests us when we talk about artists is the trajectory of life, these questions which resonate with those of our audience: of self-construction, of destiny, of mastery of one's image", explains Antonio Grigolini, deputy director of non-linear antennas of France Télévisions.
In
RK, a kid's dream
, the directors plunge into the rapper's privacy, film him in the studio, in his neighborhood, alongside his mother or in the home in which the young man was sent for some time.
RK, Riyadh by his real name, indulges in it with modesty and takes stock, cold, on the road traveled so far.
“It's the journey of a kid who was not programmed for that, who comes from this France between the countryside and the suburbs a little difficult.
That of a guy who goes to a home, who finds himself making little rap videos, then
Rap Planet
, and it works, it takes, he takes his friends on board.
In fact it's a trip!
There is a beginning, an end, between the two a big dream and obstacles.
It is not an odyssey but a journey which I think is fairly universal, ”says Benjamin Montel.
A story that fits perfectly with France.tv Slash, one of whose missions is "to offer French young people programs that are a mirror of what they live", specifies Antonio Grigolini.
"A documentary maker must have an outside perspective"
At the beginning of November, it was the rapper Medina who had been highlighted in a 45 minutes which was not however part of the
Jump
collection
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.
A notable success since
Médine Normandie
has to date more than 250,000 views, a nice audience score for France.tv Slash.
In recent months, documentaries on rap figures have been on the rise in France, and platforms are developing more and more projects on the subject, such as Netflix, which recently bet on Gims and Bigflo and Oli.
Projects that have created a real craze among fans, but which are sometimes scripted or co-directed by the artists themselves, and can raise the question of a lack of perspective.
On the side of France.tv Slash, the approach is different.
“We didn't want to make a film like we can see on different platforms, where the artist is also a co-producer.
We wanted to keep a sort of “documentary contract”, ”specifies Benjamin Montel.
“When we were shooting this film, there was this wave of documentaries, we could see that the artists were very integrated, it was in fact their film, notes Yoan Zerbit, co-director of
RK, a kid's dream .
A documentary maker has to look outside, if you ask your brother or your best friend to do something about you it will always be a bit biased.
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A point of view that is all the more interesting as young artists control their image very well.
“They made themselves by filming themselves permanently on social networks,” he continues.
There are a lot of things that already exist, but it's not with documentary writing, not filmic.
We told RK that we didn't want to film him the way he was all the time, but that we were going to look for the loopholes, that we were going to really try to see him as he is.
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