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SELECTION 2005
Lices - between June 29 and July 2

           
selection 2005 / title :::: 38 films, 34 authors, 10 countries Australia/ Belgium/ Canada/ China/ France/ Netherlands/ Russia/ Spain/ Switzerland/ USA/

sadescription A girl in motion, a motionless girl
2mn30   color   stéréo   2004   Russia
by Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov
A small girl performs in an armchair.
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sadescription a surplus of landscape
8mn52   color   stéréo   2004   USA
by Ellen Zweig
A collage of landscape; an interview with filmaker, Leslie Thorton, while she is hooked up to a lie detector; a dance in a red dress. Landscapes in places as various as China, France, California. There aree so many images of landscape. Why would anyone travel when we can travel in our imaginations? Digital video cut with Super-8 and 16mm film.
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sadescription Alone, apart : the dream reveals the waking day
7mn   color & b/w   stéréo   2004   USA
by Mark Street
An hommage to the two ramshackle cities, made up of footage shot while wandering. I meander city streets with a camera, looking to be haunted by unfamiliar vistas. I find solace in the forgotten landscapes, odd voices on a ham radio, shimmering water in a desolate harbor. Later I attack the film, moving it this way and that, trying to squeeze it against its will, wrest strangeness from the everyday.
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sadescription Ars Gratia Artis
9mn   color   mono   2004   France
by Samuel Bester
Poetry of "M2" transformed in moving images.
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sadescription Bon Boyeur
5mn   color   stéréo   2004   Spain
by Iraida Lombardia
A short stop in a petrol station in Extremadura (Spain) becomes the main event in a trip from Lisbon to Madrid, where the traveller getsimmersed in a sinistre journey.
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sadescription Cécilou... y es tu ?
3mn   color   stéréo   2004   France
by Colas Ricard
Sequence shot of Cécilou, holding a dictaphone in the hands.
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sadescription Chat-musée, s’amuser
5mn   color   stéréo   2004   France
by Carole Contant
The architecture and the contour of the animal bodies mew awfully to meet.
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sadescription circumvisions
30mn   color   stéréo   2005   Canada
by Emmanuel Avenel & Marie-France Giraudon
A circumpolar navigation between reality and illusion, the lived and the imaginary, becomes a strange odyssey in the wonderful world of mirages, in search of something beyond boundaries, horizons, infinity. This mythic journey reorients satellite imagery, radar telemetry and cartography into geographical incoherence and disruptions of the machinery. Here the perception of reality gives way to pure illusion.
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sadescription Considering David and Goliath
8mn40   color   mono   2005   USA
by Kara Hearn
This video explores the unglamorous and tedious, yet beautiful side of tackling the big things in one’s life (fear, unhappiness, dissatisfaction) with consistency, presence of mind, and faith.
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sadescription Crossings
5mn10   color   stéréo   2004   Netherlands
by Marina Chernikova
Three voyages, three cities, Moscow, Rome, Tokyo. Different forms, different spaces. Reflecting, crossing each other in my eyes and in my memory. They form yet another space, the space of memories, memories of voyages, of voyages into the space of memories of these cities, into the space of reflections and crossings.
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sadescription Dies Irae
10mn   color   stéréo   2004   France
by Jean-Gabriel Périot
Remember, That I am the cause of your journey Don't leave me on that day.
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sadescription Digue Morand
5mn   color   stéréo   2003   France
by France Dubois
A scene at the sea.
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sadescription Elle et le loup
7mn   color   stéréo   2004   France
by Jean Paul Noguès
Lost in the dark forest of her desires, she’s wandering. The wolf came to eat her.
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sadescription Escape
6mn   color & b/w   stéréo   2004   France
by Benoit Martin
"Escape" deals with escape and flight. Flee the narration, escape from the traditionnal language's jail, a film about the unconscious freedom.
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sadescription Extracorpus
9mn30   color   stéréo   2004   France
by Augustin Gimel
Giving birth to a new Body. Insufflating life and movement into paintings. A Body composed of thousands bodies. A Body freed from materiality and gravity. A Body with infinite possibilities.
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sadescription Floodland
10mn44   color & b/w   stéréo   2004   France
by Elie Barrau
This is the tale of an uncharted land which is never in the same place twice. Lost in the sea, Floodland is an emerging, shamelessly, decadent area, constantly adrift. Viral and animal, accidentally damaged by the flows, Floodland fells the need to dive, to emerge, to get away. Automatic growth, internal engines are working below the water level. So far or so close, we never see Floodland. Some people says they went there,some celebrities use to spend a few time under the channel and sometimes the fun starts 30,000 feet underneath the sea.
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sadescription For Tokyo
13mn51   color   stéréo   2004   France
by Jean-Marie Carrel
Somebody gets in Tokyo by tube. He is discovering different facets of the megalopolis before getting out. The original music, the lack of dialog and the editing make a kind of experimental, documentary and clip film mix.
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sadescription Genève
6mn   color   stéréo   2004   France
by Augustin Gimel
Ritual sacrifice and oppression of individual by society.
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sadescription Images du monde - monde d'images
10mn54   b/w   stéréo   2004   France
by Pascal Marquilly
Some pictures of the world ; a girl running away under attack, tanks on the road, rush of people… World of pictures… Pictures are passing and mixing each others, on black and white, doing echo of gilles Deleuze’s voice from a congress gave at La Femis in 1987 : "What is a créating act ?". This vidéo result from a way of thinking and performances about trans-disciplinarities called Urgence(s), preoccupied by the question : what is the place of an artist in the community ?
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sadescription je suis entré par la porte du salon
3mn10   color   stéréo   2005   France
by Boris du Boullay
I went by the living room's door. When I grow up, I will also talk
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sadescription L'eau de là
3mn18   color & b/w   mono   2003   France
by Houssam Harfouche
A man wanders in park, on a rainy day.
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sadescription La Nuit
17mn05   color   stéréo   2004   Belgium
by Catherine Menoury
The Night - is it really that dark ? Or is the Night the victim of our inability to see through it? Are our nights restless, nightmarish because we are afraid of not seeing or is it fear that obscures our senses? To be in the Night and to see, to fear because we see, turning back, wavering, to reflect upon one's own existence, to leave or to keep going. Keep going because the circle is not complete. Unless the circle spirals and so can never lead to an end, but becomes and always grows. We are deaf and blind, we can see at night, we are clairvoyant. We are dead and we are alive. The Night - is it black, luminous or white ?
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sadescription Le corps sublime, espace critique
29mn30   color   stéréo   2004   France
by Pascal Marquilly
Pictures are following up on a frenetic and cutting edit carring us away. And, we are following flows passing through the city. Absolute city, body-city…
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sadescription Le postulat d’Euclide
10mn   b/w   stéréo   2004   France
by Augustin Gimel
Spatial and temporal development of forms through birth, growth and extinction. Elementary figures combining to create a complex figure. Geometry as a metaphor. Frame as a territory.
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sadescription Le sang
12mn26   color   stéréo   2004   France
by Francis Brou
Third part of a tryptique : "Tu me fais de l’ombre / L’homme-sac / Le sang". The bag man is "pomnivore".
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sadescription More Good Products
0mn30   color & b/w   stéréo   2003   Russia
by Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov
People have invented many kinds of household equipment. Some of it heats up, some cools down. Sometimes it comes to the point of absurdity.
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sadescription pieces of panawanica
5mn30   color   stéréo   2004   Australia
by Scott Morrison
The video deals with the manipulation and abstraction of sound and image. By processing a visual and aural known experience, new environments can be found. Getting the most out of a moment, again, again and again.
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sadescription Rien que la Procession
4mn05   color   stéréo   2004   France
by François Paris
First series of vidéos poetically joined, whose first frame is mainly centered on a light rumination of the forfeiture of the body and spirit. They invite us to one on another reality, that of an intuitive and shifted poetry, which scans our presence in the world.
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sadescription seiryoku zenyo II
1mn57   color   stéréo   2004   Switzerland
by Chantal Romani
With strength and ease, in coordinated postures and sequences of movement, a woman demonstrates moments between movement and stillness, always concentrated on the instance.
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sadescription shirshasana
5mn11   color   stéréo   2004   Switzerland
by Chantal Romani
In this position blood flows to the brain so that the mind becomes fresh and clear.
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sadescription sky is the limit
8mn   color   stéréo   2005   Canada
by Mélanie Bédard
"Sky is the limit" main objective is to destabilize the viewer. Opening with a bird flight, as the strongest symbol of liberty, the projection will slowly shatter all natural order between s olid ground and the sky, in a terrorizing spectacle.
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sadescription Slow Force Glimpse
4mn   color & b/w   stéréo   2004   USA
by Brook Hinton
A feverish reverie in which images glimpsed from a train window become lodged in a dream-like world of menace and beauty. This is the first in a planned series of works by Brook Hinton based on the concept of introjection - the uncounscious internalization of external phenomena. In psychology the term usually refers to the incorporation of external personalities or ideas (i.e., parental voices) into the personality : Hinton is more interested in the psychological impact of the things we encounter in passing.
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sadescription Stratégie, geste et signe
6mn   b/w   stéréo   2004   France
by Pierre-Yves Cruaud
A political comedy showing the construction of a media stereotype and his somewhat suspect cordiality.
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sadescription Strobe #1
2mn20   color   stéréo   2005   France
by Patrice Rossignol-Gicquel
164 snapshots, random milestones of a nearly ordinary trip.
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sadescription symphonique
2mn40   color   stéréo   2004   Switzerland
by Chantal Romani
Rendez-vous à shanghai charmé a Chinese symphony that then appears to stop when it should in fact begin. filmed at the "années culturelles croisées chine et france", Marseille 2004.
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sadescription Tease
7mn37   color   stéréo   2004   France
by Kennedy JAMES
Video work from pornographic movies found on the web (p2p). Those short videos are loops which advance in the narration by the addition of one picture added at the end of each loop.This movie is about repetition of the gesture and movement of the body. This repetition gives an erotic signification but also an hysteric meaning to those images issued from pornographic movies.
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sadescription The Red Flag Flies (Hongqi Piao)
25mn   color   stéréo   2003   China
by Zhou Hongxiang
A movie without story ; An independant movie with slogan as its dialogues ; A concept movie with human being as its symbols ; A movie without leading roles, nor minor roles ; A movie without professional actors.
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sadescription Try to understand
6mn   color   mono   2005   France
by Corinne Dardé
"Try to understand" is a cover version of "the trap", a song by Kat Onoma, which was mixed with Jack Spicer's voice reading out "Billy the Kid" in a San Francisco bookshop in 1959. This video is an attempt at re-viving the links between the text, the voice, the music and the revival of the text by Burger, as if we were going back and forth between the source of the evocation (a fading memory, a small river, the narrator and the kid, is it a trap ?) and the numerous images it generates. Repetitions, disclosures, erasures, the memory of a time internal to nature.
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