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Caroline Pellet
Birds Bark
Experimental doc. | hdv | color | 20:30 | France | 2016
Birds bark is inhabited by dogs, cats, beetles, ants, parrots, humans, snails, chickadees, verms. These beings appear as shadows, stains, abstract forms, projections, in a kind of ventriloquist image. They imitate, hunt, love each other and engage with, hide from and play with each other. The one making noises is not who you think it is; dialogues punctuate these noises, from the man imitating birds in front of an hilarious assembled, to this girl asking questions about prehistorical dragonflies, and the concomitant existence of mosquitos, or this man making his dog resolve math equations, and this group of persons trying to identificate a nocturnal insect. The film is crossed by duplication and imitation through the choice of "indirect" images and the "noisist" sound, forming a strange bestiary which human is a part of.
BIOGRAPHY/EXHIBITIONS 2016 : -Residency at atelier 105 @lightcone -Dome, group show, ELA projects, Athen 2015 : -Streaming festival, cyan program -Festival des cinémas différents, Paris 2014 : -Streaming festival, orange program -Rencontres internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid -"Point de curie", opening show @laTrap with Thu Van Tran and Pier Francesco Lerose 2013 : -Artist film festival, Cutlog official selection, Paris -Cologne OFF: section ExDoc Before : -Workshop & conference run by Gabrielle Reiner at National School of Fine Arts, Paris-Cergy (ENSAP-C) about Oblique, Imagos and Silex -Independant film festival, Lisboa -FID, section cahiers du cinéma, Marseille