Screening/meeting_Tuesday 3 December 2002
Free admission.
On Tuesday 3 December 2002 -from 7 pm at Palais de Tau - Reims - France.

Free Hand for Champagne-Ardennes FRAC.
The Fonds Regionnaux pour l'Art Contemporain de Champagne-Ardennes invites the Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin for AlchimiCinéma séances on Marc Chapouli invitation.

Works programmed for the last festival and works that will be presented for the next one.



Program:


Corinna SCHNITT: Das schlafende Mädchen | Experimental fiction | 16mm | color | 00:08:30 | Germany / Germany | 2001



In " Das Schlafende Mädchen", the camera shows us in a sequences-length-shot a suburbs city with its familial lodges. Ideal, neat, but the atmosphere as something ghost-like. That's only at the end of the movie that a human being presence appears: a message let on the answering machine. It comes from and insurance agent who talks about different life insurances and the best pension fund ever and also of his lost ball-pen.

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Benny NEMEROFSKY RAMSAY : Live to tell | Experimental video | dv | color | 00:06:30 | Germany, Canada / Canada | 2002


In "Live to hell", surveillance cameras become the audience of a choral interpreting a ballad by Madonna in the early 80's. Benny NEMEROFSKY RAMSAY is born in Montreal. Visual and media artist, he is based in Berlin and Toronto. His works were projected over Europe and Canada.

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Eleonore DE MONTESQUIOU : Elle est optimiste | Experimental video | dv | color and B&W | 00:08:24 | France / Germany | 2002



"Noisette" was realized on the way back from Paris. The lauching point is a conversation done in a Parisian coffee. This is a conversation shot on an empty background, with tiles, in ruins, that can't be identified. "Printa" was realized on Tallinn beach, in Estonia. In the middle of winter, women have a bath in the sea and put their close on back on the snowy beach. A child singing comes along with this performance. "Ici, je resterais" his a 70 or 80 years old woman monologue on her relation with her flat. This woman is exiled: she's from Ukraine and lives in Estonia but without speaking the language of this country. "En attendant C" makes each of us face our waiting times on trains forms. Eleonore MONTESQUIOU lives in Berlin for a couple of years. Her work is based on recordings, interviews or conversations then re-manipulated and used as a soundtrack for short videos. .

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Alexander BAKANOV, Anna PETUKHOVA : Le temps blanc orange | Video art | vhs | color | 00:01:30 | Kazakhstan / Russia | 2002 | Les chiffres d'Almaty | Video art | vhs | color | 00:01:00 | Kazakhstan / Russia | 2002 | 24 Pink | Video art | vhs | color | 00:01:00 | Kazakhstan / Russia | 2002 | Pink moroz | Video art | vhs | color | 00:01:00 | Kazakhstan / Russia | 2002



"Le temps blanc orange" studies life rhythm acceleration, the standardized information stream, which causes devaluation and vilification of hand written typography. This work obtained the Video/Media festival first prize "Inventory" by Almaty, in Kazakhstan. Anna PETUKHOVA is born in 1976 in Almaty, in Kazakhstan and Alexander BAKANOV in 1981. They studied in the Architecture and Construction Academy of Almaty in the Design of Advertising section. "Les Chiffres d'Almaty" is the series of a photographic work "The handmade fonts of the world" by d'Anna PETUKHOVA and d'Alexander BAKANOV. Many close-up represent a hand made typography series from houses in suburbs. "24 Pink" is a pictured set of samplers of humors on a 24 hours set. The image of a man turning around his center, as a clock hand. "Pink Moroz" deals about the theme of the Americanization of our lives and consciences and offers a new interpretation of a popular poetry by Pouchkine "Winter morning". And if that was indeed dedicated to America? Alexender BAKANOV and Anne PETUKHOVA wanted to express through those two cultural marks association, the fragility of soviets heritage and to question ourselves on our own identity towards the global system.

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Seoungho CHO : 1/1 | Experiemtnal video | dv | color, B&W | 00:04:30 | USA / Korea | 2001



"1/1" is a study, a short exercise that calls us upon in a poetic manner the beginnings of video art and offers an optimistic vision of current context and hopes for the future. With the image nature in the first years of the video art -black and white, granular and a shooting technique axed on investigation - a video tape is shot. A hand explores the object and opens the cap, takes out a piece of band, tug it out with its thumb and forefinger. Then, as if it would be a violin bow, fingers start to run on it and stretch it in a squeaking noise. The fingers seems to want to read the magnetic information, but doing so, destroy little by little the images on the band. Lyrical and visually very striking, The Korean artist, Seoungho CHO's video works stand out by their unique meeting of complex image manipulation and sound collage.

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Riccardo IACONO : Letters | Experimental film| super 8, 16mm, 35mm | color | 00:03:19 | Scotland / UK | 2000



A poem on light, on speed and memory. "Letters" is the result of a strict exploration of devices qualities and of the illusion power of painting, film and light. A assembly of time and space that, by a color, substances and forms transformation, recreates the visual experience fragmentation. Inspired by William Burroughs, Georges Bataille, Gaston Bachelard and Paul Virilo's writings, Riccardo IACONO studied painting at Glasgow School Art and electronic image at Duncan of Jordan College of Art. His works cover a range from abstract animation to live poetry, and performances in front of a camera or video installations.

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Mehdi BOOSTANI : Mahkoom | Fiction | 16mm | color | 00:10:00 | Iran / Iran | 2000



"Mahkoom" is the first opus of a trilogy series that stages three characters: two peacekeepers and a women whose husband is in jail (probably for political opposition). The woman character changes in each of the three movies. In this first story, she goes at the jail everyday to meet her husband, or at least get information on his being. But her husband is not here. The superintendent felt in love with her and doesn't tell her the truth… Mehdi BOOSTANI comes from Iran. He's short length movie is simple, straight, realized on a sober edition, with no effects both visual and audio.

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Chad SIMMONS : Progress | Animation | 16mm | B&W | 00:02:58 | USA / USA | 2001



"Progress" explores persistent human attitudes and actions to milk and attempt to use human nature, which, in return, transforms the human in a machine.

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Jaan TOOMIK : Untitled 2001 | Experimental video | beta-sp, dv | color | 00:01:45 | Estonia / Estonia | 2001

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Andrew LYNN : Whirl-Mart ritual resistance video | Experimental video | mini-dv | 00:05:00 | couleur | USA / USA | 2002

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Stuart POUND : Satara | Experimental video | dv-cam | color | 00:04:19 | UK / UK | 2002 | 2002



"I was dividing the rushes in one second blocks, then each block in four, then pasted them again together. The viewer, thus, understands how the movement of an image is created. The feeling of movement and stillness, of time and non time is stronger here. The music has also its role to play in it. The images are created to accompany Rémy Couvez's hurdy-gurdy. "Satara" is a study of movement of a white and black body that finds back the color reality at the end. Stuart POUND is a British artist who lives and works in London.

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Peter ROSE : The darkening | Experimental video | dv | color | 00:08:30 | USA / USA | 2000



"The Darkening" is a story of a journey, a dark journey animated by unknown languages. The walks through sketched landscapes, clouds shadows slow motions, waterfalls, trees in the dark fragmentation in the dawning light, night landings. Peter Rose explores perception and language that he commutes in new structures.

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Christian MERLHIOT : Le voyage au Japon| | Experimntal documentary. | dv | color | 0:16:00 | France / Japan | 2000



A dozen of Japanese students read a text dedicated to their county in French. Their phonetic pronunciation creates a off setting of meaning to the measure of the outmoded exotism that soaks this texts. Christian MERLHIOT is born in 1963. Film director, he currently teaches at the Nancy National Art School. He is also in charge of teachings at the Pavillon, in the educational unit at the Palais de Tokyo.

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Bjorn MELHUS : No Sunshine | Experimental video | dv | color | 00:06:15 | Germany | 1997



"Have you ever wanted something that you knew you couldn't have, and the most you can't have it, the most you want it. So, at once, you receive it and it's so good for you." A short story about new bodies, power and degeneration with a no sunshine state. Two childish bodies wander in a cyberspace ball. They are simultaneously connected to two subconscious bodies in the background. The unification and metamorphose attempt is interrupted by one part while the second is made free. A sight over one's shoulder means disintegration. The soundtracks sources are childhood voices fragments, via the young Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder. Björn Melhus is born in 1966 at Kirchheim/Teck in Germany. He studied cinema and video at the Braunschweig Art School from 1990 to 1997. He obtained a research scholarship from the DAAD for the Californian Institute of Arts in L.A., from 1997 to 1998. From 2000 to 2002, he is living at New York, ISCP.1.

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Brian BOYCE : State of the union | | Experimental video| dv | color | 00:02:00 | USA / USA | 2001



In the hilarious short movie by Bryan BOYCE, "State of the Union", Georges W. Bush is imagined as a giant baby in the Teletubbies sky. Like a good spoiled child, he is doing same gurgling as children but his eyes launch bombs on inoffensive rabbits that were jumping in the countryside. Ended in August 2001, this project was at the beginning just a comedy making fun out of Georges W. Bush and his defense policy. But after September 11, its meaning changed radically. "State of the Union" has the quality of a surrealist documentary slightly disturbing.