TUESDAY, APRIL 21st

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AFTER THE END

Timo KATZ, Jan FUCHS : Die Welt
Experimental video | dv | color | 00:05:00
Germany | 2008 [•]

Michael Miska KNAPEK : Longlapses: Mannerheimintie south
Experimental video | quicktime | color | 00:03:00
Danemark/Finland | 2007 [•]

Tuomo RAINIO : City
Video | dv | black and white | 00:02:46
Finland | 2006 [•]

Behnam KAMRANI : Endurance
Video | dv | color | 00:03:44
Iran | 2006 [•]

Johanna DOMKE : Cuers
Video | dvc pro hd | color | 00:18:05
Germany | 2008 [•]

Charly NIJENSOHN : El naufragio de los hombres
Video | dv | color | 00:07:05
Argentina/Groenland, Germany | 2007 [•]

Rui SILVEIRA : Ni Dilli
Video | dv | color | 00:00:55
Portugal | 2008 [•]

Lina SELANDER : Timmarna som rymmer formen (et par dagar i Portbou)
Exp. documentary | dv | color and b&w | 00:15:00
Sweden | 2007 [•]

Luis VALDOVINO, Dan BOORD : Not enough Night
Exp. documentary | dv | color and b&w | 00:07:44
Argentina/USA | 2007 [•]

Mehdi MEDDACI : Lancer une pierre
Video | hdv | color | 00:22:00
France | 2008 [•]

A contemporary archeology of various locations, which seem to be waiting forever, locations only related to past events. Timo Katz and Jan Fuchs modify the visual aspect of an urban space and offer parallel and multiple perspectives. Michael Miska Knapek films a public place during 15 hours, separates the footage in spatiotemporal fragments and rearrange a new image, offering a condensed vision of recorded time. Tuomo Rainio presents the still frame of an urban landscape in which anything that moves leaves a trace on the image, resulting in an animated picture. Behnam Kamrani films a man and the apparition of a woman dancing in a space covered with mirrors. Johanna Domke films men and women, waiting in public places. Time and space are suspended, so as to put forward the mental landscape of those waiting. Charly Nijenshon shows men looking like castaways on a salted lake in Bolivia. Rui Silveira explores a picture, by both isolating and linking elements. Lina Selander films the region of Portbou, the last location Walter Benjamin visited before he committed suicide. Sound and images repeat over and over again, along with testimonies from refugees. Luis Valdovino and Dan Boord leave the Longmont Colorado gas station, which was moved twice to protect it from certain destruction, to follow the same path as Jack Kerouac and Robert Franck, in what becomes a rebuilding of the United States. Mehdi Meddaci films a stumbling architecture on the Mediterranean coast, observes the extremely slow movement of bodies, the throwing of a rock as a link to reality.

TUESDAY, APRIL 21st

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WARS

Benjamin DUCROZ : Pin
Animation | dv | color | 00:01:00
France | 2007 [•]

Gil & Moti NADER : Fiddler on the Roof
Video | dv | color | 00:02:30
Israel/The Netherlands | 2008 [•]

Teboho Joscha EDKINS : Kinshasa 2.0
Exp. documentary | 16mm, hdv | color | 00:11:07
South Africa/South Africa, Congo | 2008 [•]

Elise FLORENTY : Arriba! Desde Abajo
Exp. documentary | dv | black and white | 00:10:45
France/Argentina | 2008 [•]

Julieta HANONO : Les pieds enveloppés dans mon pull
Video | dv | color | 00:01:25
Argentina | 2008 [•]

Mario OPAZO : Piel
Video | dv | color | 00:05:22
Chili/Algeria, Colombia | 2008 [•]

Anna OGDEN-SMITH : The dream
Exp. documentary | dv, vhs | color | 00:04:10
Lebanon | 2008 [•]

Andres Felipe URIBE CARDENAS : Desastre de la guerra Num.33
Video | s-vhs, .mpg | color | 00:01:51
Colombia | 2008 [•]

Lamia JOREIGE : Nights and Days
Exp. documentary | dv | color | 00:17:00
Lebanon | 2007 [•]

Hisham BIZRI : Song for the death ear
Exp. documentary | 16mm, 35mm, HD | color and b&w | 00:17:00
Lebanon | 2008 [•]

Marjoleine BOONSTRA : Sa NULE
Documentary | betaSP | color | 00:10:00
The Netherlands/Moldavie, Croatia | 1996

Works about revolt, violence and resistance against war. Benjamin Ducroz draws strange figures in the forest. Gil and Moti Nader film a violist who plays a hybrid reconstructed composition of two national anthems. Teboho Edkins mixes images created on Second Life with images filmed at Kinshasa, where a presidential candidate is being jailed for having talked openly about the lack of democracy. Elise Florenty compares two pictures, showing signs of what gets destructed and what remains, in reference to past and present history of Argentina. Julieta Hanono presents a very short story, about a pullover that protects feet from the prison cold. Mario Opazo sets a performance in the Saharan desert; he explains how his mother saved his life during the Pinochet coup d’état. Anna Odgen-Smith finds video recordings filmed by her mother from 1989 to 1995 in Lebanon. In 1989, she was 5 years-old. Andres Felipe Uribe Cardenas reinterprets a work by Goya on war disasters. A Columbian senator describes a barbarian act. Lamia Joreige tells her personal experience of war, starting from notes written or filmed during the summer 2006 in Lebanon. Hisham Bizri’s film is a meditation on the insanity of war and violence in Lebanon. Marjoleine Boonstra directs “Sa Null” in a Bosnian and Croatian refugee camp, during the war in Ex-Yugoslavia, portraits of men and women who have lost everything. Through a simple mirroring device and the indirect look of the camera, a word can be heard again. In “Keep on stepping”, the director is in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and films those who have lost their private property, in a devastated town.

TUESDAY, APRIL 21st

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FAMILY

Vaughan PILIKIAN : Household Gods
Experimental fiction | 16mm | color | 00:06:30
United Kingdom | 2008 [•]

Cecilia LUNDQVIST : Oh, Im so happy
Animation | dv | black and white | 00:03:07
Sweden | 2008 [•]

Francesca GRILLI : Gordon
Exp. documentary | 16mm | color | 00:07:07
Italy/Italy, The Netherlands | 2007 [•]

Emmanuelle ANTILLE : Barricata
Video | dv | color | 00:19:00
Switzerland | 2007 [•]

Axel PETERSEN : Slumber past Zenith
Fiction | hdv | color | 00:17:05
Sweden/Egypte | 2007 [•]

Soufiane ADEL : Kamel sest suicidé six fois, son père est mort
Fiction | hdv | color | 00:09:00
Algeria/France | 2007 [•]

Avelino SALA : Arde lo que sera (fuego camina conmigo)
Video | dv | color | 00:01:36
Spain | 2006

Ben RIVERS : Ah, Liberty!
Exp. documentary | 16mm | black and white | 00:16:00
United Kingdom | 2008 [•]

The family, as an ambiguous space for both alienation and emotion. Vaughan Pilikian walks across the empty spaces of houses that seem to only be inhabited by the phantasmal presence of television screens. Cecilia Lundqvist draws a housewife, who is trying to persuade herself she is happy. Francesca Grilli presents the relationship between a young woman and her grandfather, in a unusual way. Emmanuelle Antille presents three generations of women locked in a house, the intimate and familial ritual. Axel Peterson explores the Hotel Alexandria in Egypt; where old Europe slowly disappears and its inhabitants prepare their farewell. Soufiane Adel presents his family at the hospital, where his grandfather has just died. Avenilo Sala watches a football game with no beginning and no end, and where the ball is on fire. Ben Rivers films a family in a wild area, out of time.

TUESDAY, APRIL 21st

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NEW FICTION

Miguel FONSECA : Alpha
Fiction | 35mm | color | 00:27:00
Portugal | 2008 [•]

Philippe TERRIER-HERMANN : La mare aux fées
Experimental fiction | dv, hdv | color | 00:06:50
France | 2008 [•]

Alexia WALTHER, Maxime MATRAY : Lélan
Fiction | 16mm | color | 00:15:24
France/Switzerland | 2008 [•]

Julius ZIZ : Vilkas (the Wolf)
Fiction | hdv | color | 00:20:00
Lithuania | 2008 [•]

Knut ASDAM : Oblique
Experimental fiction | 35mm, hdv | color | 00:12:50
Norway | 2008 [•]

Films and videos presented during this session, directed by young filmmakers and plastic artists, address the narrative form and explore new ways to generate fiction. Possible variation in writing questions the combination of reality with fiction and the underlying links between narration and representation. Miguel Fonseca envisions a future where artificial beings will be capable of carrying out all tasks. Two of those artificial beings, Alpha and Beta, are couple only a few weeks away from being shipped to their future owners in Japan. Philippe Terrier-Hermann’s film begins in the Fontainebleau forest, where two young men admire the Mare aux Fées. One of them mentions some excerpts from Georges Bataille’s “La part maudite”. They end up on a raft drifting on the Seine, in reference to Evariste Luminais’ painting the “Enervés de Jumièges”. Alexia Walther and Maxime Matray follow some men walking in the countryside, early in the morning, to take part in a duel. Julius Ziz analyses contemporary tribalism and the way a society defines itself by what it excludes. A man is wrongly arrested but is able to escape. Followed by the police, he still wants to see his house one last time. Knut Asdam films characters going through a transition, a travel through different landscapes composed of fragment of cities, whose political, economic and social backgrounds are different. He questions a new form of cinema.