FRIDAY, JULY 3rd

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BREAKFAST/MEETING
WITH PROFESSIONALS

This discussion gathers professionals from art galleries, cinema production field and artists. The topics are meant to be useful to the represented fields, with matter-of-factly points about video and digital formats, author rights, digitalization, also ways of producing new audiovisual forms, which are often between cinema and art.

FRIDAY, JULY 3rd

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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
Chile/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 deaf 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/Moldavian republic, 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.

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ANALYTICAL

Lawrence WEINER: Turning Some Pages
Animation | dv | color | 00:05:00
USA | 2007 [•]

Corinna SCHNITT: About a world / Von einer Welt
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 00:09:34
Germany/Germany, USA | 2008 [•]

Francis NARANJO: …. agosto 2007….
Video | dv | color | 00:18:00
Spain | 2008 [•]

Agustin PARRA: Autoretrato
Video | dv | color and b&w |00:01:00
Colombia | 2008 [•]

Laetitia BENAT: Fragmentarium
Experimental fiction | dv | color | 00:18:22
France | 2008 [•]

Niklas GOLDBACH: Dawn
Video | dv, hdv | color | 00:01:12
Germany | 2008 [•]

Christian MERLHIOT: Rice bowl hill incident
Fiction | dv | color | 00:40:00
France | 2008 [•]

About analytical or poetic language and what it can bring or subtract to images. Lawrence Weiner uses gestures related to the act of reading, abstract assembling of graphic forms and images of dices. Corinna Schnitt presents an idyllic Alpine landscape, where a dozen nude women are lying in high grass. The women seem to have become part of nature, as if “from another world”. Excerpts from Habernas appear on screen and we are facing a lack of communication. Francis Naranjo directs the encounter of visual, sound and textual information, a net in which the look, the hearing and the subconscious reflect on each other. Augustin Parra presents a self-portrait in and by gestures, the impossible attempt to auto-catch a hand. Laetitia Benat uses the text written by a psychiatrist nurse and has her play her role. Architecture constrain bodies and the stare keeps under surveillance Niklas Goldbach films 60 people lying in the unrenovated basement floor at Palais de Tokyo, a disco bal lis slowly rotating above them. Christian Merlhiot films a Japanese teacher, who tells an inexplicable event that happened to her class during an outing in the mountains. The story is taken from a report mentioned by Haruki Murakami in its novel “Kafka on the shore”.

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OUT OF TIME

Emmanuel ALMBORG: Newsreel
Video | dv | color | 00:08:50
Sweden | 2008 [•]

Thomas LEON: High latency
Création numérique | cgi (images de synthèse) | black and white | 00:12:00
France | 2008 [•]

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

Manon DE BOER: Two Times 433"
Exp. documentary | 35mm | color | 00:10:00
Belgium | 2008 [•]

Miranda PENNELL: Drum romm
Exp. documentary | betaSP, beta num. | color | 00:15:05
United Kingdom | 2007 [•]

Alicia FRAMIS: Secret strike Rabobank
Video | betaSP | color | 00:09:17
Spain/The Netherlands | 2004-2008 [•]

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

Liisa LOUNILA: Gig
Experimental film | 35mm | color | 00:03:36
Finland | 2007 [•]

A special relation to time, a move through still scenes, whose structure is based on photo devices codes. Emmanuel Almborg films the preparation of a TV news show, before going on air, and questions its underlying narrative structure. Thomas Leon presents a film, whose form and structure as well as its use of sound and digital media, give an emotional atmosphere to a snowy imperturbable landscape. 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. Manon De Boer invits the pianist Jean-Luc Fafchamps to play John Cage’s composition 4’33” twice in front of a live audience Miranda Pennell walks across the spaces of a music school, where young aspiring musicians play together, and she studies individual practice inside a group. Alicia Framis walks across the building of a big bank, whose hundred employees are standing still, in a timeless space, congealed in their everyday work gestures. Crispin Gurholt gels his characters in order to better investigate a crime committed in the museum. Liisa Lounila gels the audience during a concert and observes how people look at each other.

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CARTE BLANCHE
TO ARTAVAZD PELECHIAN
In the presence of Artavazd Pelechian

Artavazd PELECHIAN: The Inhabitants
Exp. documentary | 35mm | black and white | 00:10:00
Armenia | 1970 [•]

Artavazd PELECHIAN: The Seasons
Exp. documentary | 35mm | black and white | 00:30:00
Armenia | 1972 [•]

Artavazd PELECHIAN: End
Exp. documentary | 35mm | black and white | 00:08:00
Armenia | 1992 [•]

Artavazd PELECHIAN: Life
Exp. documentary | 35mm | color | 00:06:30
Armenia | 1993 [•]

The film “Les habitants” unfolds around the idea of humanism and of a link between nature and wildlife, it also addresses the attacks and the treats perpetrated by mankind. The film “Les saisons” evokes the defining moments in Armenian history, from its volcanic roots to the industrial era. In “Fin”, Pelechian films, with a shoulder mounted camera, men and women from different ages and ethnic groups, in a train going from Moscow to Yerevan. The film “Vie” shows the face of a woman who is giving birth, the ancestral gestures related to birth, in an abstract space which reminds of the iconographic depictions of the Mother and Child.

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REVISED CINEMA

Dave GRIFFITHS: The Legend of Pwdre Sêr
Experimental video | dv | color and b&w |00:01:30
United Kingdom | 2008 [•]

Volker SCHREINER: Scope
Experimental video | betaSP | color and b&w |00:04:57
Germany | 2008 [•]

Eli CORTIÑAS HIDALGO: Dial M for Mother
Experimental video | dv | color | 00:11:30
Spain/Germany | 2008 [•]

Christoph GIRARDET: Storyboard
Experimental video | betaSP | color | 00:05:08
Germany | 2007 [•]

Paulette PHILLIPS: Marnies handbag
Experimental video | dv | color and b&w |00:10:00
Canada | 2008 [•]

Noe SENDAS: The indifferent
Experimental video | dv | color and b&w |00:12:34
Portugal | 2008 [•]

Les LEVEQUE: Stammering forward backward GIANT
Experimental video | dv | color | 00:17:00
USA | 2008 [•]

Film footage and cinematographic quotes are reinterpreted and reorganized; allowing for a reflection around cinema and a space for plastic artists whose iconoclast work is often in-between. Before the story unfolds, the arranging and assembling of scenes have an ambivalent and underlying meaning. Dave Griffiths intertwines Irishmen, the Nasa and football champions, with superior intelligence coming from outer space. Volker Schreiner uses the loud speaker, as to reveal the disturbing part of communication and speeches. Eli Cortiñas Hidalgo uses the figure of Gena Rowlands, chased by the persecuting ringing of a phone, a voice is heard talking to her as someone who seems to be a mother, a dialogue with oneself. Christoph Girardet shows how memory would look like was it made of cinematographic fragments. Paulette Phillips focuses on the sign language and on signs translated through cinema when a female character about to commit a crime. Noe Sendas builds an internal monologue, which underlines the distance between a feeling and what triggered it. Les Leveque rearranges the film Giant, the epic story of Texas, oil and racism.