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"Un Semblant de Monde" is an unpublished subroutine that lengths 1 hour and 11 minutes, bringing together 4 episodes amongst the latest directed to this day from the series "Le Dispositif". "Le Dipositif" is a video program of direction, explicitation and conditioning which will consist of a corpus of 52 movies at its completion in 2012, forming a totality of duration of more than 8 hours (50 episodes have been directed to this day). The project of a "reconstituted man" was evoked many times in History : it would be the fact of the divine bicameral voice - represented in turns by the face of the Fox, of the Butterfly and of the Sea Horse - and this one would epiphanize under the form of Bird-Men, distant representatives of a humanity with non-established origins (mazdean Fravartis, Angels, Little Queens...). Recently, the idea men of the New Cities, ignoring Knowledge, confused the unfinished world of the Bird-Men with their reality down here and experimented its sinister consequences. In the contemporary world, a man never appears that by pieces. "Le Dispositif" produces an electric current and a vibratory frequency which suggests re-ordering the scattered multitude of pieces of men to make spring in you The Second Memory.

Thomas Bertay founds, runs and directs the production house Sycomore Films since its creation in 1999. At the same time author, film director and video artist, he specializes on post-production and works on numerous projects since then (fictions, documentaries, video art). He co-produces and signs the editing of Nico Papatakis' latest movie, "Gloria Mundi",which is released in 2005. He collaborates with the film directors and artists Jean-Jacques Beineix, Mickael Raeburn, François Lunel, Manuel Pradal, Valérie Pavia, ZEVS, Philippe Meste, Anne Jaffrenou, Marie Cuisset, Aude Py, Nicolas Nakamoto, Frédéric Nicolas? He is the co-author with Pacôme Thiellement of the collection "Le Dispositif", a series of experimental videos which have been several times shown in exhibitions (Centre Pompidou, Espace Ricard, Le Denfert-Rochereau, Beaux-Arts de Toulouse, La Gaîté Lyrique?)and in two retrospectives, one of them at the Palais de Tokyo in winter 2009, the other one at the PCF on the occasion of the festival "Politiques 0" in October 2010. In parallel with these activities, he is responsible of the Médias section of the "Musica Falsa" journal directed by Bastien Gallet between 1998 and 2002, and the author of several short essays in the art and literature journal "Spectre" between 1999 and 2002.

Pacôme Thiellement has first distinguished himself in the world of comics, directing from 1987 to 1991 the fanzine "Réciproquement", "Alph'art" Fanzine at Angoulême in 1990. He founds and directs the literary journal Spectre from 1998 to 2003. Three films have been co-directed with Thomas Bertay on the occasion of this experimental journal (DVD edited by Sycomore Films, "J'apporte la Guerre", 2005). He is the author of seven books of exegetic, hermeneutic, theophanic and burlesque inspiration : Poppermost ? Considérations sur la mort de Paul McCartney (MF, 2002), Economie Eskimo ? Le Rêve de Zappa (MF, 2005), Mattt Konture (L?Associaton, 2006), L?Homme électrique ? Nerval et la vie (MF, 2008), Cabala ? Led Zeppelin occulte (Hoëbeke, 2009), La Main gauche de David Lynch (P.U.F., 2010) et Les Mêmes yeux que Lost (Léo Scheer, 2011). He published some texts in numerous magazines (R de Réel, Vertige, L?Eprouvette, Le Tigre), magazines (Rock & Folk, Chronic?art, Standard, Les Cahiers du Cinéma), collective books (Fresh Théorie, Ecrivains en série, Le Ciel vu de la Terre), gave lectures and took part in debates at Palais de Tokyo, at Centre Pompidou, at Grand Palais, at Beaux Arts de Lyon, at l?Espace Ricard? His books have been welcomed by critics (Fluctuat.net, Les Inrockuptibles, Les Cahiers du Cinéma, Positif, France Culture, France Inter, France 3, Le Magazine des Livres, Artpress?). Chronic'art consecrated him the cover of one of their issues and his last essay, "La Main gauche de David Lynch has been considered by Technikart as the best non-fiction book published in 2010. He is the co-author with Thomas Bertay of the "Dispositif", a collection of about fifty experimental films which have been shown several times (Centre Pompidou, Espace Ricard, Le Denfert-Rochereau, Beaux-Arts de Toulouse, La Gaîté Lyrique?)