Screening/meeting_ Wednesday 23rd April 2004.
Free admission
From January 20th to 23rd
Le Signal - to the cinema Le Royal - 8 avenue Foch - 64200 Biarritz, France

Le Le Signal_FIPA 2004_From January 20th to 25th 2004.
The Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin are invited by Le Signal for a screening presentation of a video and films programming.





Programming: :
Presented by the Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin in Signal 2004 framework.
The colonialism at a culture backside.

Sung Hwan KIM : A-da-da | | Experimental fiction | 16mm, dv | color | 00:20:00 | USA / Korea | 2002



In Korea, A-DA-DA is an onomatopoeia used for stammers. "A-DA-DA" is constructed as a stammering film. The various aspects of this realization put the viewer in a series of different modes concerning their implication toward history. "A-DA-DA" sparks off an absolute distance from the film but also a forced emotional participation. Sung Hwan KIM tries up to describe relationships between a young man from Korea living in America - which is the director's situation - and his father living in Korea. They are split with both their culture and generation but also a communicational gap between them. One of his actors his American Vietnamese, the other one is American Chinese. They had to learn their text in Korean without understanding this language.

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Reynold REYNOLDS, Patrick JOLLEY : Burn | Experimental film | 35mm | color | 00:10:00 | USA Ireland | 2002



While a house is burning, its habitants focus all their attention on sentimental problems. Where a great number of literature and cinematographic contemporary works weight down on the family household dysfunctions, Reynold REYNOLDS and Patrick JOLLEY focus on the house image as an abnormal and curious inside. Their experimental films include themselves in absurd art continuity as did the avant-garde (Dada, surrealists…) Even if the domestic household is depicted as a worrisome place, even dangerous, we can find in those films a surprising black humor complementary element.

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Mathias DELFAU : C'est clair ! |Experimental video | dv | color | 00:05:00 | France / France | 2003



"C'est clair". This is first of all a plastic work. A meeting between two images types, one a manipulated video image, on which a digital animated life form. The story, the tension is created by going from one image to the other. The woman film is jerky, groping, used. The form is fluent, organic but stuffy.

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Jem FINER, Ansuman BISWAS : Zero genie | Experimental video | mini-dv | color | 00:09:53 | | UK / UK | 2002



Jenn FINER and Ansumann BISWAS joined Russian astronauts training program in order to explore possibilities that can offer an old fashion air trip. For 1000 years, shamanic and religious practices permitted men to travel until the most remote area in the universe. Within a Russian transportation plane, the two artists explore archetypes of flying and the flying carpet myth. To a good bargain, with a good mental discipline and Russian hospitality, they challenge gravity and industrial military economy.

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François TURGIS : Allegro | Experimental video | dv | color | 00:03:20 | France / France | 2001



"We have to feel the pain, to let it lead us astray in order to break free at once and leave us in peace, us and the ones we wept for." "Allegro" is a subjective journey with a subjective shooting in a mental landscape clear of any human being. This journey is the inner journey from the loss a beloved one until the necessary moment when once break free from the sorrow. The screening represent successive stages of mourning, along with Christian traditional mourning singing, sung a cappella by François TURGIS who works and live in Rennes.

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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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Ngoc-Hue NGUYEN : L'homme-fleur | Video art | dv | 00:02:30 | color | Vietnam | France | 2002



A vertical still shot shows a man chest holding a flower bouquet in his mouth. The man (the artist himself) tires himself out, his head nodes forward letting the bouquet covering completely his face… "For a long time I wanted to do a film without narration neither dialogs, which wouldn't neither be a mute film but simply a film far away from the reflexive society, a film close to daily life, a film on the artists words."
(Ngoc-Hue N'Guyen)
He is born 24 years ago in south Vietnam and lives in France for ten years as a political refugee. After his education in sciences, he joined the Fine Arts school of Rouen (France) where he graduated DNAP in 2000 with the whole jury honorable awards and in 2002, he graduated the DNSEP saluted the same way by the jury. In 2002, his works were exhibited in the Grande Galerie of Rouen Fine Art s School and in the FRAC in High Normandy.

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