Screening/meeting _Wednesday 23 April 2003.
Free admission
On Wednesday 23rd April from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris - 14 rue Bonaparte - 75006 Paris - Métro: Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Ecole Nationale Superieure des Braux-Arts de Paris.
Martine Markovits and ENSBA Conference Room invite the Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin for a screening session in collaboration with ARTE. Video screening from the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin programming 2003. www.art-action.org



Programming:

Colonialism on a culture back side.
Session presented by Jean-François Rettig and Nathalie Héon, the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin managers. The three works presented for that session are from the Rencontres Internationales Pars/Berlin programming 2003.

If the 20th century history were marked by the end of the great colonial empires, the colonialism issue, which was pushed back with readiness, haunts occidental culture. This issue, outlining our capacity to deny a culture out from ours, considers without forthrightly the concept of culture. Considering with Claude Levi Strauss the language as a condition for culture, there is no surprise to see how much colonialism, both economic and cultural, is characterized by a privation of the colonized population speech act. The tree works offered for that session with their own language, cinema, video, literature and theater, attempt to break in the back side of our culture, the back side of our language.

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Gavin YOUNGE : Curating the waves | Experimental video | dv | color | 00:09:10 | South Africa / South Africa | 2002



Associating subjective and objectives point of view, "Curating the waves" leads the viewer to three different places: a familial swimming pool, sea and literature bottoms. Angola's invasion by South Africa images in 1984 are interrupted with some enamel cups images and book underwater. Using abstraction and metaphor, the video follows a narrative structure, dealing about war and colonization. Gavin YOUNGE is an artist and director who is internationally recognized. Gavin YOUNGE is professor at Michaelis School of Fine Arts of Cape Town University where he teaches sculpture and film and video manipulation.

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Film presented in collaboration with ARTE
Yervant GIANIKIAN, Angela Ricci LUCCHI : Images d’Orient |Experimental documentary | beta sp | color and B&W | 01:00:00 | Italia | 2001



"Image d'Orient - Tourisme vandale" by Yervant GIANKIAN and Angela Ricci LUCCHI, represents iconography in Orientalism in documentary cinema. In the 20's, Europeans enter in the "exotic image"; it was the first kind of elite tourism that was anticipating the vandalism phenomenon of mass tourism. Poverty of natives, dancers, inflated stomach children, railways workers, in woven bodies in the crowd contrasts with those compacts new tourists groups, who participate at official ceremonies in colonial residences. Those two situations do never merge. Who are they really, those travelers? Why are they here? Why do their image disturbs?

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The Wooster Group : The emperor Jones | Experimental video | dv | color | 00:38:15 | USA / USA | 2001



"The Emperor Jones" is an intrepid play by Eugene O'Neill concerning colonialism and slavery power structure. With a considered use of the video media, this work makes us face not just highly controversial elements of the play but also until the borders between video and theater. The main interprets are Kate Valk and Willen Defoe, both members for long of the WOOSTER GROUP. Considered as experimental theater leader, this troop based in New York is well-known for its experimental theater production.