Collaboration

The OVNi 2023 festival invites the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin to be part of the Cosmopolis jury, which brings together each year different cultural institutes – under the aegis of the FICEP – alongside international cultural centres, foundations and international associations.

The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, in partnership with the Cité Internationale des Arts, is initiating a series of discussions with the artists in residence, around the notions of hybrid spaces and critical spaces in the field of the moving image. In 2023-2024, the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, in partnership with the Cité Internationale des Arts, will be extending the series of discussions with the artists in residence, around the notions of hybrid spaces and critical spaces in the field of the moving image.

"Hybrid spaces, critical space" 2/3. The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, in partnership with the Cité Internationale des Arts, is initiating a series of discussions with the artists in residence, around the notions of hybrid spaces and critical spaces in the field of the moving image.

As part of "Symbiosium, Speculative Cosmogonies", the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles invites the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin for a carte blanche at the Fiminco Foundation. With works by Eva L'Hoest and Kim Richard Adler Mejdhal presented continuously throughout the day.

The Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain invites Nathalie Hénon and Jean-François Rettig, curators of the Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, for an exhibition and a carte blanche session. The exhibition "Ecosystem Assembly" and the choice of Jean-Luc Godard's film, "The Image Book", both stem from the same necessity, that of questioning, through images, our history - at a time when its own end is announced through the collapse of the living world -, and to rethink a common world.

"Hybrid spaces, critical space" 2/3. The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, in partnership with the Cité Internationale des Arts, is initiating a series of discussions with the artists in residence, around the notions of hybrid spaces and critical spaces in the field of the moving image. For this second session, Nathalie Hénon and Jean-François Rettig, curators of the Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, invite the participants to work on queer questions and approaches in the field of the moving image, in relation to the temporary exhibition "Queer landscapes" presented during the event in 2022.

"Hybrid spaces, critical space" 1/3. The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, in partnership with the Cité Internationale des Arts, is initiating a series of discussions with the artists in residence, around the notions of hybrid spaces and critical spaces in the field of the moving image. For this first session, Nathalie Hénon and Jean-François Rettig, curators of the Rencontres internationales Paris/Berlin, invite the participants to reflect on the notion of "critical zone" defined by Bruno Latour, with, as starting material, the screening of extracts of works from the temporary exhibition "Ecosystem Assembly" presented at the event in 2022.

The Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles invites the co-curators of the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin to write the text for the catalogue of 25 Arts Seconde 2021. Artists: Baloji, Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, Ismaël Joffroy Chandoutis, Laure Cottin Stefanelli, Manon de Boer, Milena Desse, Effi & Amir, Jasmine Elsen, Dora Garcia, Katharina Kastner, Eva L’Hoest, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Mathilde Lavenne, Ethel Lilienfeld, Elsa Maury, Armand Morin, Felix Luque Sanchez, Daniel A. Swarthnas, Daniel A. Swarthnas, Léa Tumbarello.

The Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, in partnership with the Cité internationale des arts, is producing a series of interviews with artists in residence. Interviews with May Kassem (director), Riason Naidoo (artist, curator), Luise Schröder (visual artist), Liv Schulman (visual artist).

The Museum reader conference 2021 invites the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin for a keynote on 29 November 2018. Starting from Hito Steyerl’s statement in her work and essay (2013), the second edition of The Museum Reader conference will focus on the place of the Museum as a stage of confrontation for political and economic dominance, under the influence of various social forces.

The Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain invites the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin to take part in a panel discussion of the cycle "Film and Video Art". With Jeff Desom, Nathalie Hénon and Jean-François Rettig, Bady Minck and Eric Schockmel.

Image de ville, the film festival on architecture and urban space, invites the directors of Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin to curate an exhibition presented from November 17 to 26 at the Who How Gallery, as well as two screening programmes scheduled on November 26 at the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations, and Videodrome 2.

The BoCA Biennial of Contemporary Arts, invites the Rencontres Internationales to curate a video show in the framework of the "Animal-House" public space project, and a carte blanche screening. The following artits have been chosen for the public space project: Ivan Argote, Olafur Olafson and Libia Castro, Marion Inglessi. For the carte blanche, a work by Philippe Grandrieux have been programmed.

The BIM Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento in Buenos Aires invites the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin to curate and present two screening sessions representative of its programme and of contemporary practices of moving image.

Alliance Française, the Goethe Institute and the Cinenómada Foundation, with the support of the French-German Cultural Fund and the Institut français, invited the directors of Rencontres Internatonales Paris/Berlin as visual art and multimedia experts to be part of the Talentartes 2016 residency programme, and to curate the exhibition of the selected artists within the framework of the Biennial International art expo, SIART.

Porto/Post/Doc, the Porto international documentary film festival, invites Les Rencontres Internationales to curate and present a screening programme consisting of 5 works that are representative of contemporary documentary approaches.

For the last letter of its primer, MOVING_IMAGE proposes to discover 6 singular works questioning the possibility of seeing and hearing. The "disparate singularities" that Gilles Deleuze speaks of at the end of his primer suddenly make sense, to affirm a view and a position in the world. With the exceptional screening of "Our Man" (O nosso Homem) by Pedro Costa, as well as films by Rafiqul Shuvo, Christian Barani, Dominik Ritszel, Halida Boughriet and Louise Botkay.

For the 23rd letter of its alphabet book, Moving_Image revisits and transposes Lewis Carroll's inverted world in "Alice in Wonderland", with 6 rare films and videos that question the logic and arbitrariness of our contemporary world.

For the 22nd letter of its primer, MOVING_IMAGE questions the notions of vestige and reminiscence. The vestiges of ancient utopias or those of a timeless society, the reminiscences of history, the fragile traces of our dreams and invisible monuments.

For the 21st letter of its primer, MOVING_IMAGE questions the notions of public space and urbanism. With films and videos by Ferhat Özgür, Jakob Gautel, Guillaume Linard-Osorio, Filipa César, Romana Schmalisch and Jean-Luc Vilmouth. Urbanism shapes our daily circulations, inscribes in space and the arrangement of materials the most diverse ideologies or utopias. How do moving images question urbanism today? Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

What are moving images the traces of? For the 20th letter of its primer, MOVING_IMAGE questions the notions of temporality and history. T for trace. Similar to images of extinct animals and radioactive particles, similar to the story of a battlefield and the evidence of past exactions, these traces set the real in motion and question us. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

For the 19th letter of its primer, MOVING_IMAGE proposes an exploration of different sound worlds. Direct, indirect or off-camera sounds, noises, voices, music and silences become the tangible reverse side of images. 5 rare films and videos that question the paradox of our perception. With the exceptional screening of "Herman Slobbe, l'enfant aveugle n°2" one of the strongest and most accurate films by Johan van der Keuken, as well as works by Miranda Pennell, Daniel Kötter, João Salaviza, Kasper Akhøj and Tamar Guimaraes. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

For the 18th letter of its primer, MOVING_IMAGE proposes a session around the notions of repetition and "reenactment". Characteristic of contemporary practices of the moving image, these notions allow a critical reappropriation of images and discourses, a renewed listening and understanding of our time. With the exceptional screening of two major works in the history of video art, "Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman" by Dara Birnbaum, and "Hood" by Klaus vom Bruch, the presence of Jean-Jacques Palix for the presentation of his film "This record is the same as the other", as well as videos by Bjørn Melhus, Adel Abidin, Rod Dickinson. The session will end with a provocative and political film "The Eternal Frame" by Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco

For the 17th letter of its primer, MOVING_IMAGE proposes to discover 6 rare films and videos around the notion of quantity. Series, multiplications, infinite proliferations and monumental devices have in common this idea that something exceeds and overflows our perception. A quantity without possible measure. With films and videos by Brenda Grell, Marco Brambilla, Vera Brueckner, Jan Ijäs, Christoph Oertli and Gaëlle Boucand.

"P for Politics" proposes a rare and radical documentary, "Winter Soldier", made by an anonymous collective in 1972, a film that "touches on the necessity and urgency of rethinking the social and political structure", in the words of Werner Schroeter, who came to present this film as part of a carte blanche that Les Rencontres Internationales devoted to him in 2009. This screening will also be a tribute to this great filmmaker, a major representative of the New German Cinema, who died in 2010. At the end of the screening of "Winter Soldier", a video document of the presentation made by Werner Schroeter in 2009 will be shown.

The five modules presented aim to provide a critical perspective on the notion of individual history. The tension between individual and collective histories is seen as producing an aesthetic, social and political questioning of our contemporary times. Thus, the moving images explore their structures and superimpositions, and discover an intermediate dimension where fiction and reality intersect, where individual existence and common becoming meet.

Before the Rencontres Internationales at the end of the month, we hope to see you this Wednesday, February 5th at the Gaîté Lyrique for a new session of the MOVING_IMAGE cycle. "O as in obsolete" brings together 3 rare films that question our contemporary history, the traces of twentieth century utopias and their abandonment. With films by Nicolas Wagnières and Benoit Peverelli, Knut Åsdam, Raphaël Cuomo and Maria Iorio.

For the fourteenth letter of its alphabet, MOVING_IMAGE proposes to discover the look and the questioning of artists and filmmakers around the concept of NATURE. With the screening of 5 rare films and videos that question the notion of human nature as well as that of a representation of nature. With works by Charly Nijensohn, Catherine Dalfin, Pauline Julier, Ben Rivers and Anton Ginzburg.

For the thirteenth letter of its alphabet, MOVING_IMAGE proposes to discover the look and the questioning of artists and filmmakers around the notion of MANIPULATION. With the screening of 7 rare films and videos that question the extensible limit of our social beliefs, a critical intersection between reality and fiction. With works by Daya Cahen, Gints Gabrans, Democracia, Caroline Campbell and Nina McGowan, François Bucher, Nicolas Provost, Neil Beloufa.

For the twelfth letter of its primer, MOVING_IMAGE explores an essential dimension of the audiovisual device and moving images, light, through 9 rare films and videos between cinema and contemporary art. With notably the projection of the manifesto film "Lichtspiel Schwarz-Weiss-Grau" by László Moholy-Nagy made in 1930, as well as recent works by Robert Todd, Elena Näsänen, Alberto de Michele, Anne Katrine Senstad, Carlos Irijalba, Lingjie Wang and Jingfang Hao, Laura Kraning, Devin Horan.

For this fall session, MOVING_IMAGE uses the word chosen by Gilles Deleuze in his primer, 'K as in Kant', and proposes seven rare films and videos around the notions of space and time. With works by Crispin Gruholt, Peter Downsbrough, Nir Evron, Cécile Hartmann and Christian Barani. The screening will end with the exceptional screening of 'Fiasko', a remarkable tribute to Chris Marker's 'The Pier', directed by Janet Riedel, Katja Praschke and Gusztáv Hámos.

The FIDBA International Documentary Film Festival of Buenos Aires invites Les Rencontres Internationales to design and present a new screening.

For the tenth letter of its alphabet, MOVING_IMAGE proposes a session conceived as a game in which you and chance decide how it will unfold. The artists reinterpret and divert the game, especially video, exploring the real or digital interstice. With the projection of a rare document on Gordon Matta Clark filmed by Jaime Davidovich, as well as works by Jodi, Joan Leandre, Raphaël Siboni and Fabien Giraud, Axel Stockburger, Benjamin Nuel, Baden Pailthorpe and Federico Solmi.

For the ninth letter of its primer, MOVING_IMAGE offers you films and videos that question the image, its construction and its status. With the exceptional screening of Chris Marker's "Stopover in Dubai", as well as works by Harun Farocki, Lina Selander, Jason Karaïndros, Karel DeCock and Nate Harrison.

For the eighth letter of its primer, MOVING_IMAGE invites you to discover the viewpoint and questioning of artists and filmmakers around the notion of HISTORY. With the exceptional screening of "De l'origine du XXIe siècle" by Jean-Luc Godard, as well as videos by Ivan Faktor, Sarah Vanagt and Katrien Vermeire, Deimantas Narkevicius, Anna Ådahl and Giulio Squillacciotti.

For the seventh letter of its primer, MOVING_IMAGE invites you to discover the gaze and questioning of artists around the notions of gender and identity. With the projection of videos by Marina Abramovic & Ulay, Jakob Gautel, Ane Lan, Cabello/Carceller, Erik Moskowitz & Amanda Trager, Nicolas Jenkins, Mariah Garnett, Zackary Drucker and Juliette Bineau.

For the sixth letter of its primer, MOVING_IMAGE proposes a session with Johan Grimonprez on the notion of "FILM FOOTAGE". Reusing, diverting and reinterpreting images appears as a critical approach and a means of investigating our culture and history. With numerous examples in the history of cinema and documentary, this practice finds a renewed use in the avant-garde and in the field of contemporary art. This session is dedicated to the work of Johan Grimonprez, whose entire oeuvre revolves around this notion and crosses both the field of cinema and that of contemporary art.

For the fifth letter of its primer, Moving_image invites you to discover the viewpoint and the questioning of artists around the theme of the economy, with the screening of videos by Diego del Pozo Barriuso, Marina Landia, Marianne Flotron, Valérie Bert, Lawrence theme of the economy, with the projection of videos by Diego del Pozo Barriuso, Marina Landia, Marianne Flotron, Valérie Bert, Lawrence Weiner and Laura Waddington.

For the fourth letter of its primer, MOVING_IMAGE invites you to explore different documentary forms, with works by Alicia Framis, Natacha Nisic, Libia Castro and Ólafur Ólafsson, Phillip Warnell, Eléonore de Montesquiou, and a rare film by Peter Weiss.

The sequence shots and shots in duration, stemming from the grammar of cinema, are considered here as such, as characteristic elements of the practices of the moving image, as if they had reached a certain autonomy of meaning.

For this second meeting of the Moving_Image primer, the filmed animal appears as a condensed form outside the narrative, a paradoxical image out of language. A lion, rabbits, a wolf, a donkey, a sheep, dogs, among others...

"Alteration" is the motif of this first session. Screening, discussion... A new session with one of the pioneers of conceptual art and and multimedia whose incisive work questions the visible and invisible systems of power in a society dominated by mass media, hyperconsumption by mass media, hyperconsumption and advanced technologies.

The 6 pieces of this exhibition constitute an anthropological study of globalization, and of the abandonment of spaces as places. The change of visual scale produces a paradoxical reality, here paralleled with a confrontation of different social realities social realities: a critical and self-reflexive articulation that the artists gathered here develop through figures and aesthetic forms, rooted in as many distinct realities.

The French Institute of Yokohama invites Les Rencontres Internationales for an exhibition presented at Hakaranga Soko. Entitled "Urban Projection", it brings together 14 international artists who question the relationship between public and private space.

For the second year, the Rencontres Internationales are invited to the Beirut Art Center for 3 days of screenings and meetings, a space of discovery and reflection between new cinema and contemporary art, in the presence of several guests.

The exhibition "RE:MADE" presents eight installations - video, multimedia, net art - around the notions of rereading and reinterpretation. Eight distinct responses revealing a geography of the media and their deep capillarity with our daily life.

CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival invites Les Rencontres Internationales to design and present a selection of ten films and videos significant of their programming and of the new contemporary practices of the image in moving image.

From June 28 to July 3, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt is hosting the exhibition "Fake Estate", which brings together ten international artists who question the notions of property and of individual and collective appropriation.

The exhibition "PARADISE" is interested in what structures a space and makes us want to inhabit it or to disinvest it, or how a place develops or annihilates its symbolic charge, and imposes itself as a place of power or of intimacy.

The works exhibited highlight the need for a critical approach to images and our contemporary society. It proposes in particular in dialogue between two masterful works, "War at a distance" by Harun Farocki, and "On translation: Miedo/Jauf" by Antoni Muntadas.

The Beirut Art Centre invites Les Rencontres Internationales for three days of screenings and discussions. This program is articulated around three sessions proposing to explore several aspects of the moving image, different audiovisual practices between cinema and contemporary art, a field where many aesthetic, cultural and political issues coexist, crossing our time and our daily life.

The exhibition "RE:MADE" presents nine installations - video, multimedia, net art - around the notions of rereading and reinterpretation. Nine distinct and autonomous responses revealing a geography of media and their deep capillarity with our daily lives. The chosen works displace, divert and reinterpret a pre-existing visual and digital material to put in reflection our contemporary visual culture and our representations. contemporary visual culture and our representations.

At the invitation of the RyBN collective and Upgrade! Paris, Les Rencontres Internationales present a selection of five films and videos significant of their programming and of the new contemporary practices of the moving image. The chosen works enter in resonate with the singular architecture designed by Niemeyer and with the specific history of the place.

This year's exhibition at the Tabacalera could be considered as a second chapter after the exhibition presented in the same space in 2009. same space in 2009. An interrogation of the place, of its past and of the contemporary history in which it is inscribed remains deeply present. While last year we wanted to leave the Exhibition space open to its adjacent spaces and literally illuminate the empty offices and disused corridors as testimonies of a bygone society still This year, we have chosen to hide these spaces, to fold it in on itself in a way. As the sign of an uncertainty and a future. The sign of a condition of the glance.

The CAAM Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, invites Jean-François Rettig and Nathalie Hénon, directors of Rencontres Internationales, to intervene in the conference of November 19 and 20 "Post-cine, post-vídeo, post-tv, post-digital, post...".