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LES RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES DECEMBER 1-7, 2014 AT GAÎTÉ LYRIQUE, PARIS FREE ENTRY Les Rencontres Internationales will be held in Paris from December 1 to 7, 2014, at Gaîté Lyrique. Throughout the 6 days of complimentary access at Gaîté Lyrique, a space for discovery and sharing focused on contemporary moving image practices will be available to all. OPENING MONDAY, DEC. 1, FROM 7.30PM SCREENING, PERFORMANCE, MIX LIVE Opening programme detail, click here Contemporary visual culture holds the convergence between the aesthetic, social and political issues and adapts to the continuing development of production and dissemination technologies. Les Rencontres Internationales offers a future-oriented way of observing these practices. Crossing new cinema and contemporary art, this unrivalled event in Europe provides a unique opening on contemporary audiovisual practices. Documentary approaches, experimental fictions, videos, hybrid forms: the programme of Rencontres Internationales is the result of a thorough research and invitations to some artists, personalities from the cinema and the contemporary art. In the presence of artists and filmmakers from all over the world, the event will offer an international program gathering 120 works from 40 countries, internationally-known artists and filmmakers along with young artists and filmmakers presented for the first time in Paris: screenings - Premières, cartes blanches, video programme -, performances and concerts, and a forum. The programme is entirely in free admission. Detailed programme www.art-action.org SOME HEADLINES • On December 1st, a unique opening night including a screening programme, as well as “Tempestarii”, a performance by Nadine Hilbert and Gast Bouschet (Luxembourg, 53rd Venice Biennale), with Stephen O’Malley (USA). • For the closing screening, on December 7, the latest film by Claire Denis (France), from a text by Christine Angot, “Voilà l’enchaînement”. • On December 5, the Paris' première of “Ming of Harlem” by Phillip Warnell (United Kingdom), in the presence of the filmmaker and of the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. • On December 6 , the international première of “Expanding illuminance”, a multimedia concert by Thomas Köner (Germany). An hyptnotic journey through two visions of the future, two utopias, made from fragments of “Metropolis” (1927) byFritz Lang and “Tron” (1982) by Steven Lisberger. • Focuses on artists, notably with Natacha Nisic (France), presented by Les Rencontres Internationales since 2006, solo exhibited at Jeu de Paume national museum in 2013. • Mid and full length films exploring new narrative forms made by young contemporary artists, notably “Tonight and the People” by Neil Beloufa (France). • A new video by Ryan Trecartin (USA), solo exhibited at the Modern art museum of the City of Paris in 2011. • Among the 120 films and videos, mostly internationally or French premièred, the lastest works by Sandro Aguilar (Portugal), Thom Andersen (USA), Manon de Boer et George Van Dam (Belgique), Eléonore de Montesquiou (France), Christoph Girardet (Allemagne), La Ribot (Espagne), Carlos Motta (Colombie), Lina Selander (Suède). PASS/ACCREDITATION Accreditation/professional pass - only for press and professionals - grant priority access to the whole programme: screenings, special events, video library.  ACCREDITATIONPress, programmed artists, guests, cultural institutions, professionals. To sign-up for free pass accreditation click here NEW AUDIENCE BADGESchool groups, students, under 25 years of age, and teachers can benefit from many free advantages. More details and subscription click here PARTNERS  DRAC Ile-de-France - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Conseil Régional d’Ile-de-France, Ville de Paris, Goethe Institut, Forum Culturel Autrichien, Centre Culturel Canadien, Institut Culturel Italien, Institut Polonais, Ministère de la culture du Luxembourg, Institut suédois. Ainsi que Vimeo, Livestream, Première Heure, Circus Family. OTHER PARTNERS  ACCOMMODATION IN PARIS HOTEL PARTNERS
INFORMATION The team of Rencontres International remains at your disposal for any information. To contact us click here Photo - "Tehran-Geles" by Arash Nassiri, 2014 |
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