The imagery of the Tarot de Marseille belongs to the cosmology of a distant world that has been buried and forgotten by the Copernican revolution. The modern eye is blind to the meaning of its images, just as it is blind to the experience of entering a Gothic cathedral. Nevertheless, the interest in this deck of cards is growing in the contemporary world: we can see it in its use as a tool for exploring the unconscious by Jungian analysts, as well as in its more popular version in divinatory cartomancy, or in the practice of the so-called « evolutionary » or « initiatory » Tarot, where these cards become a tool for self-knowledge and questioning the present. Is this an anachronism? A sign of regression and naive superstition? Or is the vision of the world that lies behind these images of great value for the existential questioning of the contemporary world?

The purpose of this documentary series is to explore the origins of this card game and its various uses through the centuries (as a game, as a source of inspiration in art, as a tool for philosophical study and as an oracle) in order to perceive its authentic identity and the role it plays in the questioning of the contemporary world.

The documentary will be presented and discussed by Marianne Costa, writer, artist, tarot reader and actress (La Voie du Tarot, Le Tarot pas à pas, Metagenealogie, No Woman’s Land). Her work and her career testify to her academic rigor as well as her creative and artistic approach, which makes her one of the most remarkable voices in the world of Tarot today.