The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin
This DVD was especially created for Cinétrain in this collaboration framwork and is available at Paris Lyon train station, Paris Montparnasse train station, and Lille train station from November 15th to February 15th 2006. It includes a programming of selected works for the festival previous years and offers various approach of image.

Jem FINER, Ansuman BISWAS
Zero genie
Experimental video | mini-dv | color | 00:09:53 | conception, image, editing: Jem Finer, Ansuman Biswas | image: Andrei Velikanov, Anthony Bull | costume: Barley Rose Biswas | 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.

Gavin YOUNGE
Curating the waves
Experimental video | dv | color | 00:09:10 | writing: Gavin Younge | image: Luke Younge, Gavin Younge | editing: Gavin Younge | 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 artiste 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.

Almagul Menlibaeva MENLIBAYEVA
SteppenBaroque
Video art | dv | color | 0:12:00 | Kazakhstan | 2003
Almagul MENLIBAYEVA represents the nomad woman, traveling freely in her art as in her life. She uses symbolic elements to create this magic sense in her work. Stephen Baroque transports us in a world where women perform strange rituals in fantastic places. Almgul MENLIBAYENA is born in 1969 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She presents this year (2005) her installation, "Caravan" at Venice biennale. She realizes video, installations and performances. Her work his exhibited in Almaty, at the Soros Foundation, in Kirighiztan, at the Saint Petersburg Art Museum, in Novosibirsk, at the Moscow artist house, at the Haus der Kultur der Welt in Berlin and Weimar in Netherlands. She also took part in IFA organized exhibition: "Art and Architecture in Central Asia" in Berlin and Stuttgart.

Oleg CHORNY
Fon akt III
Experimental animation | 16mm, dv | B&W | 00:03:30 | writing: Oleg Chorny, Gena Khumaruk | image: Oleg Chorny, Gena Khumaruk | image: Foa-Hoka | editing: Gena Khmaruk | Ukraine | 2002
A kid dreams of his father, of a pilot and of his "babushka" (grand-mother). This work is inspired from the Ukrainian alternative group "Foa-Hoka".

Robbie LAND
Oil Derric
Experimental film | super 8 | color | 00:06:00 | USA | 2001
"Oil Derric" is a package of memories of events in my thirties that periodically dropped in my mind and correspond to my current life style. The images that come and go in the movie are cinematic attempts that lead those thoughts to the screened medium. I have been lured by the movie experience that makes its capacity to employ various means evoking concerns I want to hand on in my projections. My work has been screened in many exhibitions and festivals in Europe and America. I live currently in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Takeshi KUSHIDA
Flow
Experimental film | dv | color and B&W | 0:02:30 | Japan / UK, Japan | 2003
This is an experimental video that explores relationships between things that can be seen and those that cannot. There is nothing on the screen when the video starts but it progressively fills up with dark things. Those dark things reveal themselves as the video progresses along. The link between diegetic and non-diegetic is also explored. Non diegetic sounds take part in the atmosphere setting and the film tempo. Diegetic sounds helps to define things that we see on the screen. Takeshi KUSHIDA is born in Osaka, Japan in 1982. He studies animated experimental image at the Kent Institute of Art and Design since 2002. His experimental films were screened in video and films festivals. His second experimental film, FLOW, received the first prize at the Rencontres Audiovisuelles of Lille in 2004. His films were screened at the International Art Film Festival of Trencianske Teplice (Slovakia), at the Asolo Art Film Festival (Italia), at Split Film Festival (Croatia), at the COURTisanes (Belgium), at the Up and Coming Festival in Hanovre (Germany), at the Aquapolis International Short Film Festival in Hiroshima (Japan), at the No Budget Film Festival (Austria) and won the special Prize at Nakajima Stadium (Japan).

Reynold REYNOLDS et Patrick JOLLEY
Burn
Experimental film | 35mm | color | 00:10:00 | conception, image, editing: Reynold Reynolds, Patrick Jolley | 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.