WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22

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> Auditorium 200


SOCIAL BODY

Nadia HIRONAKA, Matthew SUIB : The soft epic, or: Savages of the pacific west
Video | dv | color | 00:03:06
USA | 2008 [•]

William WEGMAN : Around the Park
Video | dv | color | 00:07:26
USA | 2007 [•]

Bertrand DEZOTEUX : Le Corso
Animation | hdv | color | 00:14:00
France | 2008 [•]

Umut SAKALLIOGLU : Rally
Video | dv, hi8 | color | 00:03:47
Turkey | 2007 [•]

Egle BUDVYTYTE : Secta
Video | dv | color | 00:05:56
Lithuania/The Netherlands | 2006 [•]

The CENTRE OF ATTENTION : La discorde
Video | dv | color | 00:01:28
United Kingdom/Switzerland | 2007 [•]

Manuel SAIZ : Buffer
Video | hdv | color | 00:03:00
Spain | 2008 [•]

Danilo PRNJAT : Lilly project
Video | dv | color | 00:07:18
Serbie | 2007 [•]

Nooshin FARHID : Sleepwalker
Video | dv | color | 00:06:00
United Kingdom | 2008 [•]

Anna ÅDAHL : In Dependence
Video | hdv | color and b&w | 00:12:00
Sweden | 2008 [•]

Daya CAHEN : Nashi
Exp. documentary | betaSP, dv | color | 00:26:14
The Netherlands | 2008 [•]

The individual and the group: social, political and economic grading Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib present an epic animated and wild travel through a devastated urban landscape where wildlife has taken over. William Wegman films in a New York park a society made of human beings and dogs, each handling their business, in a fair distribution of daily work and pleasure. Bertrand Dezoteux presents a social fable of a digital society where hybrid animals gather and move around pointlessly in various landscapes, ending however in a protesting march. Umut Sakallioglu parades through different processions, deconstructing the rite of protesting. Egle Budvytyte reveals a society, which identity manifests through often quite opaque behaviour in public spaces– could it be a cult, a political or social group, or quite simply our society? The Centre of Attention orchestrates the docile audience of an art gallery, from a friendly greeting to a barehanded struggle. Manuel Saiz presents an effective crowd reallocating and grading system, thanks to a plug area. Danilo Prnjat pays two hundred men, asking them to gather in front of the biggest perfume shop in Belgrade and to wander inside the shop, underlining the contradiction between a liberal economy and a post-socialist and patriarchal society. Nooshid Farhid films a young man, who looks totally adrift in an urban area, emptied from any social link. Anna Ådahl choreographs a couple in an apartment, whose gestures are similar to some they could have among a crowd. Those images are interrupted with movie excerpts showing crowd gatherings. Daya Cahen observes the summer camp of Putin’s youth movement. Propaganda and group activities can function as an instrument in a process of mass radicalization.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22

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FORGERY

Jonathan SCHWARTZ : Copper green
Experimental film | 16mm | color | 00:03:00
USA | 2008 [•]

Vasco ARAUJO : Augusta
Video | dv | color | 00:08:55
Portugal/USA | 2008 [•]

François BUCHER : Samper
Video | dv | color | 00:17:30
Colombia | 2008 [•]

Rossella BISCOTTI : The undercover man
Exp. documentary | 16mm | black and white | 00:30:00
Italy/USA | 2008 [•]

Ken JACOBS : The scenic route
Experimental video | dv | color and b&w | 00:25:00
USA | 2008 [•]

Political speeches and cinematographic effects. Jonathan Schwartz films an old picture of students and teachers, while a moved voice sings “Singing in the rain”. Vasco Araujo’s video is based on Aristophanes’ comedy “The Birds” and reflects on power abuses and political ideologies, through a conversation of two stone lions about a new place to live. Francois Bucher has the former president of Columbia, Ernesto Samper, re-read a speech he made in 1978. Rossella Biscotti interviews Joseph D. Pistone a.k.a. Donnie Brasco about his undercover operation inside the New York Mafia from 1976 to 1982. Ken Jacobs puts photo images into space, reintroduces time and re-opens images to tri-dimensionality.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22

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> Main room


CARTE BLANCHE
TO ARTAVAZD PELECHIAN
In the presence of Artavazd Pelechian

Artavazd PELECHIAN : Les habitants
Exp. documentary | 35mm | black and white | 00:10:00
Arménie | 1970 [•]

Artavazd PELECHIAN : Les saisons
Exp. documentary | 35mm | black and white | 00:30:00
Arménie | 1972 [•]

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

Artavazd PELECHIAN : Vie
Exp. documentary | 35mm | color | 00:06:30
Arménie | 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.