WEDNESDAY, JULY 1st

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ART OR LIFE!

Marco RAPARELLI: Abandoned dog
Animation | dv | color | 00:04:20
Italy | 2008 [•]

Federico SOLMI (in collaboration Russell LOWE): King Kong and the end of the world
Animation | dv | color | 00:04:27
Italy/USA, Australia | 2006 [•]

Peter GARFIELD: Fall
Video | dv | color | 00:01:09
USA | 2008 [•]

Marko MAËTAMM: Car ride
Animation | dv | color | 00:03:16
Estonia | 2008 [•]

Patrick BERNATCHEZ: Chrysalide-Empereur
Experimental film | 35mm | color | 00:10:00
Canada | 2008 [•]

Crispin GURHOLT: Live Photo II
Experimental fiction | betaSP | color | 00:15:00
Norway | 2007 [•]

Carles CONGOST: La mala pintura
Experimental fiction | hdv | color | 00:10:00
Spain | 2008 [•]

Tony COKES: Leeds.talk.trailer
Video | dv | color | 00:04:00
USA | 2008 [•]

Daniela FRANCO: Tiada Tajuk
Video | dv | color | 00:04:09
Mexico/Malaysia | 2006 [•]

Jacob GAUTEL: Les habits neufs de lempereur
Video | dv | color | 00:01:12
Germany/France | 2008 [•]

Martin SASTRE: Diana: the rose conspiracy
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 00:16:30
Uruguay | 2006 [•]

Art or life. A burglary has occurred unnoticed; the crime needs to be investigated. Marco Raparelli tells the adventures of a stray dog, wandering throughout the city. Frederico Solmi revives an untammed King Kong in a post-hyper-capitalistic society. Peter Garfield films a forest, where it is preferable not to wander. Marko Maëtamm takes his wife and kids for a drive, until pressure becomes unbearable. Patrick Bernatchez features Ronald Mac Donalds in a new role, his last one, in an underground garage. Crispin Gurholt gels his characters in order to better investigate a crime committed in the museum. Carles Congost presents how painting takes its revenge on contemporary art. Velázquez and the Masters of the Golden Age hatch a plot to bring back Spanish art in the forefront of the international artistic scene. On a techno soundtrack, Tony Cokes reflects upon the vexed relationship between art criticism and art making during the 1960s and 70s. Daniela Franco’s animated video consists of headlines from Malaysian English newspapers and presents a mumbling karaoke speech on artists. Jacob Gautel offers an exclusive news story, a scoop on the reigning emperor. Martin Sastre offers another scoop, with images as proof, on a princess, who far from being dead is be living in a favela of Montevideo, Uruguay.

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UNRESOLVED

Sarah BEDDINGTON: Brief Encounter
Video | dv | color | 00:02:46
United Kingdom/USA | 2007 [•]

Eun Woo CHO: Gate
Video | dv | color | 00:01:20
South Korea/USA | 2008 [•]

Vicente BLANCO: The proll thing
Animation | dv | color | 00:03:37
Spain | 2006 [•]

Hakima EL DJOUDI: 2 avenue M
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 00:09:14
France | 2008 [•]

Miina HUJALA: Illallinen
Fiction | 16mm | color | 00:04:47
Finland | 2007 [•]

Slava LEONTJEV: 1:1
Experimental film | 16mm | black and white | 00:05:30
Lithuania | 2007 [•]

Van BARNES, Zackary DRUCKER, Mariah GARNETT, A.L. STEINER: You will never, ever be a woman…
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 00:08:45
USA | 2008 [•]

J. Tobias ANDERSON: Delusion Disillusion
Animation | dv | black and white | 00:03:33
Sweden | 2008 [•]

Angelica MESITI: The line of load and death of Charlie day
Experimental fiction | hdv | color | 00:15:45
Australia | 2008 [•]

Sheena MACRAE: Set
Video | dv | color | 00:10:15
Canada/United Kingdom | 2008 [•]

Delphine KREUTER: Hotel Riverview
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 00:01:56
France/USA | 2008 [•]

Ra DI MARTINO: The red shoes
Experimental fiction | 16mm | color | 00:04:00
Iceland/Italy | 2007 [•]

CABELLO/CARCELLER: After Apocalypse Now: Martin Sheen (the soldier)
Video | dv | color | 00:09:54
Spain/Spain, Philippines | 2007 [•]

Unresolved works, “deja-vu” scenes, distant or forgotten cinematographic quotes. Sarah Beddington offers a meeting in triptych. Eun Woo Cho presents different types of human encounters and separations in a strange place. Vicente Blanco features a space that is impossible to film, an encounter made possible through different mediums. Hakima El Djoudi films what looks like a point of no return in the history of a couple. Miina Hujala also films a couple, with a feeling of “deja-vu”, until the woman shows her real face. Slava Leontjev stages two characters face to face, silently looking at each other and presents an enigmatic private meeting, with an Hitckockian allusion. With Van Barnes, Zackary Drucker, Mariah Garnett and A.L. Steiner, two trans-identified people, look at each other, hurl a series of insults at each other, and use the different levels of romantic language. J. Tobias Anderson presents two men on a road questioning differing ideas on how to approach a problem. The questions they ask themselves are simple, but the possibilities of interpretation are more complex. Angelica Mesiti films in an Australian town a story about “stories” and uses the video to play with cinematographic codes. In a poolroom, Sheena Macrae moves the camera so as to suggest the beginning of a plot. Delphine Kreuter writes a franco-american dialogue, about an arrival in New York. Ra di Martino presents a film that appears to be part of a feature film, perhaps one that we have seen, but ca not quite remember the name. Cabello/Carceller have an excerpt of Apocalypse Now re-interpreted by a Filipino woman, and places her in the original location of the film.

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DOCUMENTARY APPROACHES

Carlos PAZOS: Escenario vaciado
Video | betaSP | color | 00:02:42
Spain | 2008 [•]

Gaetano LIBERTI: Soglia I
Exp. documentary | dv | color and b&w |00:23:33
Italy | 2008 [•]

Barbara METER: A touch
Experimental film | 16mm | color | 00:13:30
The Netherlands | 2008 [•]

Ian SOROKA: Nostalgia
Experimental film | 16mm | color | 00:06:46
USA/Czech Republic, USA | 2008 [•]

Norman RICHTER: Heidelberg
Exp. documentary | 35mm | color | 00:34:45
Germany | 2008 [•]

Works in this session offer cinematographic, documentary and plastic ways of questioning time and loss. Images taken of reality change status and sometimes receive a word. An individual language extends beyond the present tense and its recording and extends towards another temporality. Carlos Pazos films an apartment which once was a haven and is now a place with no life. Gaetano Liberti is looking for the threshold where we could look at things which have no place and no time. Barbara Meter films the passage of things, vanishing as wind, shadows and smoke Ian Soroka observes the daily routine what will evolve in nostalgia of an ideal past. Norman Richter films her grandmother’s house. In litany, she says things that belong to an infinite past, covering all temporal dimensions of life.

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A LAKE
In the presence of Philippe Grandrieux.

Jason DEE: Were going for a trip across the water
Experimental video | dv | black and white | 00:02:00
United Kingdom | 2006 [•]
This film uses a short excerpt from “Aurore de Murnau”, the couple on the boat is embarked on an endless circle.

Philippe GRANDRIEUX: Un lac
Fiction | 35mm | color | 01:30:00
France | 2007 [•]

The story takes place in a country from which we do not know anything. North
The light is strong. The sun never goes high up in the sky. It stays on the horizon line.
Things have to happen suddenly
Nothing prepares to them
It just happens.
Scenes are linked from the underground by deep currents, invisible on the surface of the earth.
Little dialogue. Retorts are quick.
The film is a tragedy.
The strength of cinema is to enable us to inhabit a world, as the dreamer inhabits his dream.
Thus, we walk in the image.” (Philippe Grandrieux)

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TRAVERSEES

Hannes BOECK: New Hefei
Fiction | super 16 | black and white | 00:10:11
Austria/China, Austria | 2008 [•]

Elena NÄSÄNEN: Night
Experimental fiction | 16mm | color | 00:06:40
Finland | 2007 [•]

Julieta HANONO: Intime
Video | dv | color | 00:02:21
Argentina/France | 2008 [•]

Mauro SANTINI: Cosa che fugge
Video | dv | black and white | 00:05:00
Italy/Italy | 2008 [•]

Deborah LIGORIO: Il sonno
Video | dv | color and b&w |00:06:45
Italy/Italy, Germany | 2007 [•]

Thomas KÖNER: Pasajeros peregrinos pilotos
Video | dv | color | 00:03:00
Germany | 2008 [•]

Bouchra KHALILI: Anya (straight stories - Part 2)
Exp. documentary | dv | color | 00:11:00
Morocco/France, Turkey | 2008 [•]

Elli RINTALA: Väylä
Exp. documentary | 16mm | color | 00:25:05
Finland | 2008 [•]

Enrique RAMIREZ: Brises
Fiction | 16mm | color | 00:13:00
Chile/Chile, France | 2008 [•]

Dans cette séance, le changement de lieu et le passage d’un espace à l’autre, deviennent le symptôme d’un changement d’état, d’une translation intime, sociale ou politique. Hannes Boeck filme en China un jeune garçon qui progressivement sort de la ville. Avec Elena Näsänen, une jeune femme sort d’une maison la nuit et traverse un jardin de plus en plus dense pour aller vers une lumière incertaine. La vidéo de Julieta Hanono est la traversée de la France de sud au nord, de l’été à l’hiver, de la nuit à l’aube, un survol presque détaché du réel, immergé comme dans un rêve. Mauro Santini superpose le mouvement d’un paysage et le suspens d’une figure immobile. Deborah Ligorio filme en caméra aérienne une trajectoire allant des faubourgs de Naples aux abords du Vésuve. Thomas Köner démultiplie les passants d’une foule qui deviennent autant de motifs visuels et sonores. Bouchra Khalili traverse Istanbul et enregistre le récit d’une jeune femme irakienne qui attend depuis 10 ans son visa pour rejoindre sa famille en Australia. Elli Rintala filme en haute mer un pétrolier qui rejoint une raffinerie sur la côte. Lors de ce passage, l’homme, la technologie et la nature se confrontent. Enrique Ramirez filme en un plan séquence un personnage qui marche dans Santiago du Chile, jusqu’au Palais Présidentiel, lieu du Coup d’Etat et du retour à la démocratie. Une traversée de la ville, de la mémoire et de l’histoire.