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In Paris, from November 30 to December 9, 2009

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OPENING - SCREENING
Monday November 30th, from 8.30pm
at the Centre Pompidou
Free entrance
PRESENTATION, SCREENING, CONCERT
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From November 30 to December 9, the "Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid" will create a space of discovery and reflection between new cinema and contemporary art in Paris:
• at the Centre Pompidou,
• the Jeu de Paume national museum,
• the Châtelet Theatre.
• the Reflet Medicis movie theater.

With the presence of 120 artists and filmmakers from all-over the world, this rare event will propose an international programme of film, video, multimedia. It includes many film premieres, a video program, multimedia concerts, a cycle of debates and panel discussions. A video library will offer a space where the whole programming, made up 90% of premieres, can be viewed and reviewed on request.

This year's programme has been selected from 5500 submissions as well as by invitations made to certain artists and filmmakers. It is the result of an elaborate international search for works: 150 works from Germany, France, Spain and 50 other countries, made up of internationally-known artists and filmmakers as well as young artists and filmmakers presented for the first time.

FILMS AND VIDEO SCREENINGS >>> click here
(new fiction, documentaries, video, experimental)
• Carte blanche given to Werner Schroeter (DE) in his presence.
• The second chapter of the retrospective honoring reputed Armenian director, Artavazd Pelechian, initiated last year will be presented by Pelechian.
• The film event Pedro Costa’s latest film Ne Change Rien (2009, sneak-preview) presented by the director and Jeanne Balibar.
• Carte blanche given to Harun Farocki (DE).
• The must-see documentary by Johan Grimonprez (BE) 'Double Take' (2009) which turns the figure of Alfred Hitchcock into a paranoid history professor.
• Two new films by Ken Jacobs (USA), ‘The Day was a scorcher’ and an excerpt from ‘The Sky Socialist Stratified’.
• Sneak-preview screening of the feature film by Christian Merlhiot (FR) ‘Le Procès d’Oscar Wilde’.
• Two short films by Tsaï Ming-liang (TW) including 'Madame Butterfly' (2008) and by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (TH), 'A letter to Uncle Boonmee' (2009)
• The newest works by Hans op de Beeck (BE) - Ben Rivers (UK) - Charlotte Ginsborg (UK) - Julius Ziz (USA) - Zapruder (IT) - Diego Del Pozo Barriuso (ES) - Philip Warnell (UK) - Ariane Michel (FR) - Eija-Liisa Ahtila (FN) – Emmanuelle Antille (CH)

From the programmed artists: Carles Asensio Monrabà (Spain), Patrick Bernatchez (CA), Francois Bucher (CO), Jonathan Cummins (IR), Johanna Domke (DE), Peter Downsbrough (USA), Ivan Faktor (CR), Elise Florenty (FR), Dora Garcia (ES), Bouchra Khalili (MA), Almagul Menlibayeva (KZ), Eleonore de Montesquiou (FR), Natacha Nisic (FR), Vivian Ostrovsky (FR), Antoni Pinent (ES), Jérôme Schlomoff (FR), Volker Schreiner (DE), Yu Chin Tseng (TW), Liu Wei (CN).

Each screening is built around a transversal theme, creating a questioning that stretches across different forms and audiovisual practices.

MULTIMEDIA CONCERT >>> click here
The multimedia concert by Thomas Köner (DE), Le Manifeste du futurisme, will make its debut in France, at the Théâtre du Châtelet on the 1st of December, free entrance.

DEBATES / FORUM >>> click here
• Mardi 1er décembre, à 15h au Théâtre du Châtelet.
• From December 2nd to the 5th at the Centre Pompidou. Numerous debates will be held around the theme of cinema and politics for the second edition of « Où va le cinéma? » organised by the Centre Pompidou for which the philosopher and cinephile Jacques Rancière will be the witness and the guest of honor. The following filmmakers will participate: Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, Serge Bozon, Pedro Costa, Elia Suleiman, Tariq Teguia and Koji Wakamatsu.
• The Rencontres Internationales gather together artists, professionals from art galleries and the field of cinema production for a discussion around a late-breakfast. The topics are intended to be useful to professionals in the represented fields, with matter-of-factly points about video and digital formats, copyrights, digitalization, and ways of producing new audiovisual forms, which are often between cinema and art.

VIDEO LIBRARY >>> click here
The complete program, of which 95% is presented as a world premiere, can be viewed on request in the video library.

in Berlin, June 30 - July 5, 2009

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OPENING
Tuesday June 30th, from 7pm
at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Free entrance
PRESENTATION, SCREENING, CONCERT
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From June 30 to July 5, the 19th "Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid" will create a space of discovery and reflection between new cinema and contemporary art in Berlin at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

With the presence of 100 artists and filmmakers from all-over the world, this rare event will propose an international programme of film, video, installation and concerts.
This year's programme has been selected from 6500 submissions as well as by invitations made to certain artists and filmmakers. It is the result of an elaborate international search for works: 150 works from Germany, France, Spain and 50 other countries, made up of internationally-known artists and filmmakers as well as young artists and filmmakers presented for the first time. It includes many film premieres, a video program, multimedia concerts, a cycle of debates and panel discussions. A video library will offer a space where the whole programming, made up 90% of premieres, can be viewed and reviewed on request.

>>> SCREENING PROGRAM (new fiction, documentaries, video, experimental)
Special screenings:
• Carte blanche given to Artavazd Pelechian
The Inhabitants (1970, 35 mm, black & white, 10 min) / The Seasons (1972, 35 mm, black & white, 30 min)
End (1992, 35 mm, black & white, 8 min) / Life (1993, 35 mm, colour, 6 min 30)
• German Première. Carte blanche given to Pedro Costa - Ne change rien (2009, 98 min, Portugal). Pedro Costa presents his latest film, selected at the "Quinzaine des réalisateurs" section of the Cannes International Film Festival 2009.
• Première: Philippe Grandrieux - A Lake (2007, 1h30, France). A Lake is Philippe Grandrieux's third feature film. Selected for the 65th Venice Film Festival.
• Première: Khalil Joreige, Joana Hadjithomas - I Want to See (2008, 35 mm, 75 min, Lebanon/France)
Starring Catherine Deneuve, Rabih Mroué
• Carte blanche given to Antoni Muntadas.
Antoni Muntadas, Velasquez price 2009 awarded for his whole work, will attend Berlin for the Premiere of "Political Advertisement VII".
Antoni Muntadas, Marshall Reese : Political advertisement VII, 1952-2008 (2008, video, 75mn)

A selection of screenings:
• Each screening is built around a cross-disciplinary theme of different genres (documentary approaches, new fiction…) and different audiovisual practices (video, experimental…), at the heart of which one will notably find the latest films (most of them previews) of Vasco Araujo (PT), Emmanuelle Antille (CH), Knut Asdam (NO), Herman Asselberghs (BE), Carles Congost (ES), Manon de Boer (NL), Pierre Coulibeuf (FR), Peter Downsbrough (USA), Christoph Girardet (DE), Ken Jacobs (USA), Volker Schreiner (DE), William Wegman (USA), Liu Wei (CN).

A selection of screenings:
• AFTER THE END: a contemporary archaeology of places which seem made only to provide shelter for a wait without end, places which only seem to have ties with events in the past.
• REVISED CINEMA: Film footage: the cinematic quotation as a building block for narrative reconstruction, both a meditation on cinema and a research ground for visual arts.
• DOCUMENTARY APPROACHES: The works in this event offer different approaches - simultaneously cinematographic, documentary and art field related - to the question of time and disappearance.
• AN ASIDE: A special connection with time, a movement through static scenes, borrowing and appropriating the codes of photographic devices.

>>> EXHIBITION
This year, the Rencontres Internationales offer a video exhibition in the Haus der Kulturen der Welt spaces. It proposes a transverse approach of different contemporary audiovisual practices as well as a reflection on issues related to the presentation devices, from movie theatre to open space. Those topics reflect a specific language and a way of thinking for many artists and filmmakers.
Amongst the presented artists: Patrick Bernatchez (CA), Johanna Domke (DE), Niklas Goldbach (DE), Erik Moskowitz & Amanda Trager (US), Diego del Pozo Barriuso (ES), Noëlle Pujol & Ludovic Burel (FR), Manuel Saiz (ES).
Detailed program from June 15

>>> DEBATES, PANEL DISCUSSIONS, FORUM
The Rencontres Internationales invites filmmakers, curators, artistic directors and programmers from European and extra-European national museums, contemporary art centres and biennales in the fields of contemporary cinema, video and new media. The proposed debates aim to develop a reflection on the concerns and tracks explored in each country in order to debrief this creation and accompany it, as much from a critical point of view, as from the point of view of the public and the artists.

The 'Rencontres Internationales' offers more than just a simple presentation of the works. It introduces an intercultural forum gathering various guests from all over the world - artists and filmmakers, institutions and emerging organizations - to testify to their reflections and their experiences, but also to artistic and cultural contexts that are often undergoing deep changes.