Catalogue 2024
Below, browse the 2024 Rencontres Internationales catalogue, or search the archives of the works presented since 2004. New video clips are routinely posted and the images and text are regularly updated.
Philippe-aubert Gauthier, Tanya St-Pierre
Dans une sorte de rêve éveillé - L'invitation
Film expérimental | hdv | couleur | 75:0 | Canada | 2023
Une œuvre d’animation de synthèse s’inscrivant dans une série d'œuvres contemplatives et portant sur l’archéologie des intérieurs. Cette œuvre pose un regard archéologique et architectural sur une ère théâtrale de la décoration intérieure. Exposant une tension fictionnelle presque non-résolue entre, d’un côté, le confort moderne construit et édifié par l’économie tonitruante et, d’un autre, la menace sourde de la nature, du climat changeant et de leurs forces cataclysmiques sous-entendues. Une première rencontre des collages faits main de St-Pierre et des images de synthèse créées en duo avec Gauthier. Cette œuvre a été produite grâce au soutien du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec et du Grand Théâtre de Québec (Canada) pour une présentation au Studio Telus du Grand Théâtre de Québec (commissariat : Ariane Plante).
Philippe-Aubert Gauthier est ingénieur mécanique, maître ès sciences, docteur en génie mécanique (acoustique) et professeur à l'Université du Québec à Montréal, à l'École des arts visuels et médiatiques. Il travaille à la croisée des arts, sciences et technologies. Il a produit plus d'une cinquantaine d'œuvres en arts sonores et numériques. Gauthier est actuellement directeur associé du Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology. Tanya St-Pierre est artiste en arts visuels, sonores et médiatiques. Elle explore les relations possibles entre arts visuels ou médiatiques et narration. À travers divers systèmes d'altération de la narration en propositions poétiques et conceptuelles, elle déjoue et questionne les notions de représentation et d’artefacts culturels. Détentrice d’un baccalauréat en arts plastiques de l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, (Québec). Depuis 2003, leurs démarches se rencontrent dans des projets collaboratifs. Leurs intérêts et engagements respectifs sont abordés dans des échanges découlant vers des propositions artistiques hybrides qui résultent de joutes autocritiques et d'inventions en duo. Leur travail fut présenté au Canada, aux États-Unis, au Mexique, en Europe et au Japon. Tous les deux vivent et travaillent actuellement à Montréal, au Québec (Canada).
Riccardo Giacconi
Giganti rosse
Doc. expérimental | hdv | couleur | 69:0 | Italie | 2023
Summer 2022. Carlotta is engrossed in recording the audiobook for Walter Benjamin’s short stories. Her sister and brother come to visit her for a few days, and the three find themselves in the small town in the Marche region where they grew up. Gradually, an episode they experienced together two years earlier resurfaces: an act of violence in which each of them was, in their own way, entangled.
Riccardo Giacconi has studied fine arts at the IUAV University of Venezia. His work has been exhibited in various institutions, such as Grazer Kunstverein (Graz), ar/ge kunst (Bolzano), MAC (Belfast), WUK Kunsthalle Exnergasse (Vienna), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (Reims), tranzitdisplay (Prague), Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo (Turin). He was artist-in- residence at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Lausanne, Switzerland), Centre international d’art et du paysage (Vassivière, France), lugar a dudas (Cali, Colombia), MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome and Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen (Innsbruck, Austria). He presented his films at several festivals, including the New York Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Visions du Réel and FID Marseille, where he won the Grand Prix of the International Competition in 2015. He co-founded the collective listening festival ‘Helicotrema’ and the audio storytelling studio ‘Botafuego’. He is Professor of the Practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston. www.riccardogiacconi.com
Johannes Gierlinger
Generationen von Bildern
Documentaire | 16mm | couleur et n&b | 102:20 | Autriche | 2024
"We sing a lullaby, not to lull to sleep, this giant baby of iron and concrete. We sing a lullaby so it grows stronger and upon it, incessantly the revolution can walk." A poem as a wake-up call for revolution, or rather a regime-compliant lullaby? GENERATIONS OF IMAGES embarks on a search for traces through the profound transformation processes of Albanian history. In the archives, forgotten places, and memories of different generations, ruptures and continuities become visible, left behind by the transition from communist dictatorship to capitalist democracy. Employing an essayistic-poetic approach, the film delves into regime images and image regimes, bring- ing forth hidden narratives and depicting how deeply Albania’s history is inscribed into the texture of its present.
Johannes Gierlinger (* 1985) In his work, he deals with forms of memory, remembrance and perspectives of resistance. Thereby he explores and analyzes historical and contemporary traces as well as constellations, transformations and connections between different eras and political systems. In his examination of the past and its permeation of the present, he explores forms of representation, layers and patterns and asks to what extent their structures and effects are visible and perceptible in today's societies. His work has been showen at national as well as international film festivals & institution, among others Visions Du Réel Nyon (CH), Belvedere21 (AT), CPH: DOX (DK), IMPAKT Festival (NL), Werkleitz Centre for Media Art (DE), Filmmakers Fest Milano (IT), Museum der Moderne Salzburg (AT), EMAF Osnabrück (DE), Bienal de Artes Mediales de Santiago (CL), Dokufest (KOS), FIC Valdivia (CL), Edinburgh IFF (GB), Antimatter [Media Art] (CA), das weisse haus (AT), rotor Graz (AT), Salzburger Kunstverein (AT), Diagonale Graz (AT). Lives and works in Vienna.
Eva Giolo
Stone, Hat, Ribbon and Rose
Film expérimental | 16mm | couleur | 16:0 | Belgique | 2024
Part of the YOURS project, an assemblage of five short films dedicated to Chantal Akerman, STONE, HAT, RIBBON AND ROSE offers a strictly personal and decidedly fragmented guide to Brussels; this idiosyncratic city symphony takes us across different urban terrains and unveils each location’s visual and sonic wonders. Amplifying the film’s elusive, drifting quality are a series of one-person performances involving disparate objects in the city. Playful and sombre, quotidian and fantastic, Eva Giolo’s film is a tender love letter to Akerman’s work. (Hyun Jin Cho)
Eva Giolo is an artist working across film, video, and installation. Her work has been exhibited at Sadie Coles HQ, Harlan Levey Project, WIELS centre for Contemporary Art , MAXXI–National Museum of 21st Century Art, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Palazzo Strozzi, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Kunsthalle Wien, and major film festivals like International Film Festival Rotterdam, Viennale, FIDMarseille and Vision du Réel among others. She is a founding member of the production and distribution platform elephy.
Christoph Girardet
Jishin
Film expérimental | mov | noir et blanc | 8:0 | Allemagne | 2022
Jishin (Japanese: earthquake) shows an archaic-looking special effect for a Hollywood film of the 1940s: a house begins to sway, stone lanterns fall over, an actor loses his grip. Finally, mountains of debris fill the screen. The drama is repeated in five successive, slightly varied camera perspectives. The uncut raw material allows an analytical view of the clichéd and scenery-like setting: the disaster is not due to a natural event but to a precalculated performance.
born in Langenhagen, Germany, in 1966, studied Visual Arts at the Braunschweig University of Art (HBK). Since 1989 he has produced films, videos and video installations, some of them in collaboration with video artist Volker Schreiner (1994 – 2004), and, more frequently, in collaboration with filmmaker Matthias Müller (1999 – 2022). He lives and works in Hanover, Germany.
Dzhovani Gospodinov
Meadows wait, mist diffuses
Film expérimental | 0 | | 17:10 | Luxembourg | 2023
In Meadows Wait, Mist Diffuses, Dzhovani Gospodinov captures the enigmatic energies of Hosbësch. Ruminating on the encroaching influence of civilisation in its woodlands and the ways in which humans disrupt and alter the intimacies between animals, the film queries the ethics of our intrusion into the natural world. Shot over four years with motion activated cameras and interlaced with Gospodinov’s own fragmented recollections of the woods, the film poeticises the protracted rupturing of a landscape. Moving between the visual and affective modalities of the voyeuristic and introspective, the film is at once a portrait of—and elegy to—Hosbësch.
Dzhovani Gospodinov is a Luxembourgish filmmaker whose work experiments with the boundaries between documentary and fiction. Interested in the power of observational filmmaking and its ability to conjure both exteriorised and reflexive modes of storytelling, Gospodinov’s projects have illustrated the poetics of ancient pagan rituals, the erosion of intimacies between humankind and the natural world, and hermetic, monastic orders, amongst other things.
Yaela Gottlieb
¿Dónde está Marie Anne?
Film expérimental | 35mm | couleur | 5:56 | Pérou, Argentine | 2023
Marie Anne escapes from a world that seems to promise her a perfect life. At that moment her trace is lost forever. Foundfootage made from advertisements recovered by the Museo del Cine de Buenos Aires from the years 1976-1983.
Yaela is a Peruvian filmmaker based in Hamburg. Her works explore photography, film and video from montages containing affects, in tension with fiction. Her films have been showcased at the film festivals including Punto de Vista, Berlin Critics' Week, FICValdivia, Lima FilmFestival, BAFICI, Torino Film Festival, among others as well as in museums such as MAR Museum of Contemporary Art, Proa21, and MACBA. She has also curated film programs for museums in Peru and Argentina. She's received awards such as the Juan Downey for Latin American creation (2022), Bienal Arte Joven (2019), CineAr (2023), Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2019, 2022). In 2021, she released her first feature film "No hay regreso a casa".
Matze Görig
Les microbes
Vidéo | digital | couleur | 17:47 | Allemagne | 2024
Les microbes is based on the stories of some of the crew members that were told during the filmmaking process and reflects on their situation in an experimental way. They had to flee their homes due to poverty, war and prosecution. Now, after their long journey, they have to persevere and wait. Wait while the world is turning madly.
Matze Görig works at the interface between film, visual arts and sculpture in various contexts and often in the socio-cultural field. His cinematic and digital sculptural works have been shown at various exhibitions and film festivals and as interactions in opera and theater productions (e.g. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Hof Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Kunstraum München, Kino der Kunst, Konzerthaus Berlin, Transmediale Berlin, Theater Hannover). Matze Görig writes scripts, edits films and creates sound designs for his own and other artists' works. He has worked as a lecturer in various institutions (UDK Berlin, Kunsthochschule Weissensee, HFF Munich, Schlesische27) Since 2020, he has been the artistic director of theexperimental workspace Falscher Fisch in Berlin-Neukölln, which has set itself the task of inspiring new dialogues through art projects together with young refugees and in cooperation with changing partners
Dor Guez
Qalâat Al-Husan
Installation vidéo | 4k | couleur | 8:0 | Palestine, Royaume-Uni | 2022
Maya Han
C18H10N2O4: On Melanin and Mycology
Doc. expérimental | mov | couleur | 8:3 | USA | 2023
Maya Han C18H10N2O4 2023 | Etats-Unis | vidéo | essai vidéo + documentaire expérimental | 35:00 (extrait 8:00 min.) C18H10N2O4 est le composé chimique de la mélanine, l'un des pigments biologiques les plus anciens et les plus omniprésents dans la nature, y compris chez les humains et les champignons. Utilisant comme point de départ le rôle historique de la mélanine en tant que marqueur fallacieux des catégories raciales, ce film d'essai explore les manières surprenantes dont la mélanine et la mycologie sont liées, révélant des liens avec les histoires africaines et coloniales, ainsi que le rôle fascinant et plus vaste de ce produit chimique dans la nature et la culture.
Maya Han est une cinéaste expérimentale, artiste, et écrivaine. Son travail est une forme d’activisme « soft », abordant de manière critique les questions de race, de genre/sexe, de travail, d’identités diasporiques et d’histoires marginalisées ou effacées. Sa formation comprend des études en langues et littérature française de l’Université de Paris III La Sorbonne Nouvelle et un M.F.A. en Studio Art. Ses projections et expositions comprennent le Harlem Film Festival, NYC; Le Musée national des femmes dans les arts, Washington DC; et le Festival international du film de Pusan, Corée. Elle se trouve fréquemment à Paris ou à Brooklyn, où elle cultive notre jardin.
Tamer Hassan
Homing
Doc. expérimental | hdv | couleur | 34:25 | USA | 2023
Centuries prior to the colonization of the Americas, Purple Martins began to nest in gourds that people hung to store food and water and became companion species for many tribes. The birds that European settlers brought with them drove Purple Martins out of their wild habitats so that now they can only nest in birdhouses that people build to prevent their extinction. Homing follows the migration of Purple Martins from the Amazon to the Great Lakes, between the conservationists who study them and to the houses they are dependent on for survival.
Tamer Hassan has screened his films internationally including at Viennale, Cinéma du Réel, Lincoln Center’s Art of the Real, Mar Del Plata International Film Festival and Punto de Vista. He has been a fellow at the Flaherty Film Seminar and participated in the Berlinale Talents program. He teaches at Parsons School of Design.
Heidi Hassan
Souvenir
Doc. expérimental | 4k | couleur et n&b | 11:0 | Cuba, Espagne | 2024
Fascinated tourists stroll through the GDR museum as if it were an amusement park, detached from the painful narratives of the communist regime. Their casual attraction to vintage relics, coupled with a comfortable amnesia, and a desire for utopian ideals, renders them complicit in the current Cuban reality.
Heidi Hassan is a Swiss-Cuban filmmaker and visual artist with a career that spans documentary, experimental cinema, and hybrid forms. After earning a degree in Cinematography from the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) in Cuba and a distinction from the Haute École d'Art et Design (HEAD) in Geneva, her work has been celebrated globally. Her films often explore themes of exile, identity, and memory, and have been exhibited at prestigious festivals around the world. Among her works, "A Media Voz" (2019) stands out, having won multiple awards such as Best Documentary at IDFA-Holland, at the Havana Film Festival-Cuba, Málaga Film Festival-Spain, Iberoamerican Festival of Ceará- Brazil, FICCALI-Colombia. Her other acclaimed films include "Tierra Roja" and "Otra Isla" Additionally, she has received numerous grants and participated in exhibitions like "Inner Landscape" in Taiwan and collective shows in New York, Buenos Aires, and Geneva. Through her deep engagement with both cinema and visual arts, Hassan continues to craft narratives that challenge conventional storytelling.
Célia Hay
Does Spring Hide Its Joy
Film expérimental | super8 | couleur | 10:0 | France, Royaume-Uni | 2023
“Does Spring Hide Its Joy” is an immersive audio experience by American composer Kali Malone featuring musicians Stephen O'Malley and Lucy Railton. The music is a study in long-form, non-linear durational composition, with a heightened focus on septimal just intonation and beating interference patterns. At the same time, it is a film documenting the sound piece, where Célia Hay creates a portrait of the derelict Birkenhead Docks, an industrial place where nature has quietly reclaimed its rights.
Célia Hay is a French artist whose work mixing film, photography, poetry and installation oftentimes depicts isolated social misfits wandering, on their journey to mysterious existential quests. Characters who have left the world to carry out uncanny and rebellious gestures of intimacy which are theirs only, and invent new ways to love and to exist. Themes of mourning, sisterhood, drifting, and how the loss of words can establish bonds in surprising ways are at the core of her practice. Kali Malone is an American composer and musician who creates sonic monoliths that tug at the very material of listening. Malone’s compositions implement specific tuning systems in minimalist structure for pipe organ, choir, chamber music ensembles, and electroacoustic formats. Her music is rich with harmonic texture through synthetic and acoustic instrumentation in repetitive motions and extended durations. The music emits distinct emotive, dynamic, and affective hues which bring forth a stunning depth of focus.
Isabelle Hayeur
Holiday Out
Vidéo | 4k | couleur | 10:45 | Canada | 2024
En Californie, environ 172 000 personnes sont sans abri, soit 30 % du total du pays, même si cet état ne représente que 12 % de la population des États-Unis. Le manque de logements abordables, les problèmes de santé mentale et la consommation de drogues, sont les causes principales de cette crise sociale. Cette détresse humaine est partout de nos jours, mais elle est loin d’être banale. J’ai rencontré quelques personnes itinérantes lors de mon passage dans la ville de El Centro et elles ont bien voulu que je les filme. J’ai capté quelques moments de leur vie quotidienne, aux abords l’autoroute 8 et du désert de Sonora.
Isabelle Hayeur est connue pour ses photographies et ses vidéos expérimentales. Elle a également réalisé plusieurs commandes publiques, des installations in situ et des livres photographiques. Sa démarche s’inscrit dans la perspective d’une critique écologique, urbanistique et sociale. Depuis la fin des années 1990, elle sonde les territoires qu’elle parcourt pour appréhender comment nos civilisations contemporaines investissent et façonnent leurs environnements. Elle est préoccupée par l’évolution des lieux et des communautés dans le contexte sociopolitique néolibéral que nous connaissons actuellement. Ses travaux ont notamment été présentés au Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein et aux Rencontres internationales de la photographie à Arles. Elle a aussi fait plusieurs résidences d'artistes et participé à de nombreux festivals internationaux.
Zike He
Saros
Fiction expérimentale | 4k | couleur | 15:39 | Chine | 2022
At the apex of a new solar activity cycle, after an eclipse during the summer solstice, the members of a family transform into a soap, a plastic bag, a simulated plant, and an electric plug — objects from their domestic environment. While the electronic grid is disrupted by the solar storm. The film depicts a series of irregular structures, from digital models to the electronic system: networks, databases, QR codes, planetary matter, cosmic cycles, and artificial environments. It recreates the eclipse of the summer solstice in 2020 and invokes the deadly relationship between solar activity and electronic systems to touch on the uncertainties in both the digital and physical worlds. In the pre-Internet era, an electronic system collapse caused by a massive solar storm had occurred. Such an event could be catastrophic for today’s world, which heavily relies on electronics, and still remains unpredictable. With computer-generated monologues of an imaginary broken machine, the film itself also explores a deductive working method, using the first shot of the animation as a “seed” which gradually develops into the holistic narrative through mind associations, like a generative process. It was shot in the neighborhoods of the Capital Belt of Beijing, where the artist lived during the COVID lockdown, and engages performance of friends, neighbors, and workers. The audience can scan the QR codes in the film to access additional screen spaces, including a short notice, a digital perfume, and a digital watch. Although the virtual world lacks scent, the watch remains static. The English title, ‘Saros,’ refers to a certain period of time used to predict the cycle of eclipses, where the Sun, Earth, and Moon return to similar corresponding positions, so that almost the same eclipses will occur again.
HE Zike (b.1990, Guiyang, China) is an artist who works with mediums including video, writing, performance, prints, and computer program. By incorporating personal memories into her research and fieldwork, HE Zike’s practice illuminates the interplay between time, mundane lives and the technological environment. She weaves the disorder beneath the surface of contemporary life through a narrative approach. She was a finalist for the 5th VH Award of Hyundai Motor Group, and was selected in the residency program of Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council in 2023. From 2021, She has co-initiated the interdisciplinary project “Under the Cloud” which visits and studies the technological infrastructure in Southwest China. Her works have been exhibited in Cosmos Cinema, the 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023), Dream Screen at Leeum Museum of Art (Seoul, 2024) and Beijing Biennale (2022) among others.
Zike He
Random Access
Fiction expérimentale | 4k | couleur | 14:20 | Chine | 2023
Random Access (2023) takes the form of a science fiction set in the city of Guiyang and its vicinity, home to the world's largest radio telescope FAST and a “data center cluster” credited with driving the rapid expansion of China’s digital industry. It is also the center of the Chinese Karst landscape, where geological information and meteorological clouds are stored in the mountains. Riffing on her parents’ experience of living in this misty highland technological hub, the artist imagines a narrative unfolding after the unexpected crash of its main data center. In this disordered digital reality, two characters travel through the city filled with flashes of ancient memories and imaginaries of the future. Whether they are encountering information stored in the cloud or expanded versions of themselves, the protagonists must find their way through a rapidly changing world.
HE Zike (b.1990, Guiyang, China) is an artist who works with mediums including video, writing, performance, prints, and computer program. By incorporating personal memories into her research and fieldwork, HE Zike’s practice illuminates the interplay between time, mundane lives and the technological environment. She weaves the disorder beneath the surface of contemporary life through a narrative approach. She was a finalist for the 5th VH Award of Hyundai Motor Group, and was selected in the residency program of Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council in 2023. From 2021, She has co-initiated the interdisciplinary project “Under the Cloud” which visits and studies the technological infrastructure in Southwest China. Her works have been exhibited in Cosmos Cinema, the 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023), Dream Screen at Leeum Museum of Art (Seoul, 2024) and Beijing Biennale (2022) among others.
Paul Heintz
Nafura
Fiction expérimentale | mp4 | couleur | 27:33 | France | 2023
Un road movie un soir d’hiver quelque part sur la péninsule arabique. Trois amies, pour tromper leur ennui, se lancent dans une joute verbale qui mènera à une réflexion sur le pouvoir et les interdits.
Né en 1989 à Saint-Avold, diplômé des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, des Arts Décoratifs de Paris et du Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains. Il vit et travaille entre Paris et la Lorraine. Son travail qui se traduit à travers l’objet, le son, le film et l’installation a été présenté lors d’événements d’art contemporain et festivals de films tels que FID Marseille, IFFR Rotterdam, Visions du Réel, Paris Nuit Blanche et dans des centres d’art et musées comme le Centre Pompidou, le FRAC Lorraine, le FRAC Grand Large, Les Rotondes.
Mónica Heller
Sra. Gaivota
Animation | digital | couleur | 10:10 | Argentine | 2023
Synopsis "Sra. Gaivota" 3D Animation. Year 2023. Duration 00:10:02 Comissioned by Pivô Satellite, Sâo Paulo. Brazil In the midst of an urban landscape, a seagull moves through mountains of garbage and waste in a coastal city. This is the second video in a series where talking birds, the first being "Il Piccone Parlante"(2022) explore themes ranging from the environmental impact of cities to the labor and financial struggles of seagulls, their relationships with each other and with humans. "Mrs. Seagull" features an inner monologue as she reflects on fragments of her life and her connection to the environment. Her voice is a blend of deep thoughts and observations, and as the narrative progresses, she invites us to contemplate the complex interaction between wildlife and the decaying contemporary world. This video is a hybrid poem, where the texts were created in conversation with an artificial intelligence platform, resulting in an intertwined narrative of information, humor, and absurdity.
Mónica Heller (1975, Buenos Aires - Argentina) lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has a degree in Arts from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (2003) and completed the Artists' Programme at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (2009-10). Her exhibitions include ‘Las botitas que todxs temen todxs quieren’, at Piedras Galería, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2024); ‘Sra. Gaivota’, at Pivô Satélite, São Paulo, Brazil (2023); “El origen de la sustancia importará la importancia del origen”, Argentine Pavilion at the Arsenale, 59th Venice Biennale, Italy (2022); “Del orden cósmico al orden cosmético”, at the Museo de la Mulher, Córdoba, Argentina (2021). Her work and research address various visual narratives in which animation, painting and character design reflect on contemporary issues, such as the use of technologies in relation to the body and knowledge, the socio-environmental impact and the capitalist crisis. Heller is an artist known for her 2D and 3D animation works created with freely available CGI libraries. Her self-taught approach to digital technology, combined with her dedication to craftsmanship, defines her work ethic. In both her animations and paintings, she sets out to undo rational logic and indulge in surreal scenarios in which absurd coexists with the sinister.
Feguenson Hermogène
La sombra de la ceiba
Documentaire | mov | couleur | 13:30 | Haiti, Cuba | 2023
Aux abords du village de Cumanayagua à Cuba, Feguenson, un jeune cinéaste haïtien rencontre Armando Abril, un adepte du culte afro-cubain « Palo Monte ». Vivant seul, Armando offre son service comme “Transporteur” aux personnes qui souhaitent communiquer avec les morts, les esprits. Puis un jour, Feguenson sollicite l’aide d’Armando afin de communiquer avec son grandpère maternel Dolciné Jean, ancien prête vodou, décédé il y a 11 ans. Le film met en scène cette rencontre et la complicité entre un homme riche d’expérience, de connaissances supposées occultes et un jeune ingénu, à travers un voyage dans l’univers « Palo Monte », très proche du vodou haïtien, où la frontière entre le réel et l’imaginaire se fusionne.
Feguenson Hermogène a étudié la sociologie à l'Université d'État d'Haïti. Après plusieurs ateliers de réalisation et de production à la Fondation Connaissance et Liberté (Fokal) à Port-au-Prince, il réalise son premier documentaire "La déchirure" en 2016. Ce court métrage a été sélectionné dans des festivals en France, au Canada, et a remporté une mention honorable au Festival Internacional De Cortometrajes Libélula Dorada en République dominicaine. Il a travaillé comme assistant de production sur des longs métrages tels que "Zombi Child" du réalisateur Bertrand Bonello et "Kidnapping INC’’ de Bruno Mourral. Et en tant que réalisateur de reportages audiovisuels pour le journal Ayibopost. En 2022, Feguenson a réalisé le court métrage documentaire "Cuando llegue la noche" qui a remporté le prix du meilleur court métrage documentaire à la 31e édition du Festival Cine Plaza à Cuba, et le prix du meilleur court métrage étranger lors de la "Mostra de Audiovisual Universitário e Independente da América Latina (22e MAUAL)" au Brésil. En juillet 2024, Feguenson a été gradué en réalisation documentaire à l’EICTV (Escuela Internationale de Cine y Television de Cuba).
Laura Horelli, Simon Tjimbawe
Am Anfang war die kulturelle Identität
Doc. expérimental | mov | couleur | 8:0 | Finlande, Allemagne | 2023
"Ombazu yaKouHerero yazikama okuza kororowa." A studio in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Simon Tjimbawe has chosen this location to answer questions sent by a museum in Braunschweig. The museum is exhibiting Chief Kahimemua’s belt, which will be soon given back to Namibia. Kahimemua was an Ovambanderu leader, who was executed by Germans in 1896. His descendants are related to Tjimbawe’s family.
LAURA HORELLI is a visual artist and flllaaer living in Berlin. She has been researching the historical relations between Nalibia and Gerlany since 2016, particularly the relationship of the liberation lovelent SWAPO and the East Gerlan state during the Cold War. Horelli was born in Helsinai, grew up partly in Nairobi and London. SIMON TJIMBAWE is a Herero born in West Berlin. His father was a lelber of the liberation lovelent SWANU who studied econolics in Leipzig in the 1960s. He is a fll sound lixer and lives and woras in Berlin.
Marta Hryniuk, Nick Thomas
Centre for Creativity
Doc. expérimental | 16mm | couleur et n&b | 22:30 | Pologne, Pays-Bas | 2024
Two parallel stories in post-full scale invasion Ukraine. Oksana is a psychologist and dance teacher at the Centre for Creativity, a community space in Kosiv, west Ukraine, now repurposed as a hub for volunteers to make soup, salo and camouflage nets for the front lines. Margarita is an artist and volunteer medic, working to evacuate wounded soldiers, civilians and animals, while still maintaining her practice as a painter. A meditation on resistance, the role of art in extreme times, and the ways in which people relate to or make sense of the war.
The collaborative practice of Marta Hryniuk and Nick Thomas is devoted to the radical potential of film and video, paying close attention to themes of collectivity, a subjective relation to history, and possibilities for resistance. They seek out places and subjects which offer insights into ways of living ‘otherwise’, opening up questions around freedom, agency and solidarity. They are interested in the utopian social projects of the twentieth century and their legacies, feminist and migration histories, and the ways in which individuals embody and respond to historical forces. Their work often takes the form of portraiture; collaborating with individuals and small groups allows the artists to think about broader themes while embracing subjectivity, tactility and embodied knowledge.