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DON'T KILL HOLLYWOOD
[ 12 vidéos of Image Contre Nature - 74mn ]
at the Festival Tous Courts
École Supérieure d'Art / rue Emile Tavan / Aix-en-Provence
December 3rd, 2004, 20h30
A retrospective of 12 videos covering four years of the festival. The pleasure of seeing again, finding inspiration this time, in the themes developed in each of these films. In contrast to the titles used to mark the different selection programmes, of the abstract character attests only to the necessity of assembling the films in a coherent fashion, Don't kill Hollywood is the fruit of a play on association. The memoir of two readings, James Ellroy and Cormac McCarthy, are grafted onto the choice of images and their sequence. The bodies are, one after the other, penetrated, killed, betrayed, dead: or engaged in the repetition of movement and the image. They are often feminine. We don't cut.
22e Festival Tous Courts Nov 22 / dec 4, 2007
Espace Forbin, 1, place John Rewald
13100 Aix-en-Provence France
tel.: 33 4 42 27 08 64
www.aix-film-festival.com
Fig.45mn color stereo 2004 France
by Augustin Gimel
Bodies and movements recomposed starting from pornographic images taken on Internet. Sexual Golem. The act projected and worked with another image, that of a body made up of thousand bodies to the infinite possibilities.
self-production
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Festival 2004 [ pr. movement ]
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Par delà le bien et le mal8mn10 color stereo 2002 France
by Suzel Roche
This video is the account made by images of the moment I understand theses words of Nietzsche. I was shooting in a slaughter-house, featuring the muslim rituel. It was hard and natural, it was complexed to understand but in the same time I try to understand this I began to understand me. And by the strength of random, I fell on a little village, near the slaughter-house whose name is mine.
self-production
self-distribution
Festival 2003 [ pr. space ]
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Sans titre3mn30 b/w stereo 2004 France
by Céline Clottes
This video Installation designed to ravel in loop, tries to expose a time which passes. The aesthetic simplicity of the image, the tiny action are there as well as possible to expose time in its unfolding more believed. Here it is the daily newspaper which is let see. The loop made up of 112 numerical photographs, represents somebody who passes from the position upright, of a half-turn then of one return to the position lying. Horizontal representation of a time dial, one day standard in its destitution...
self-production
self-distribution
Festival 2004 [ pr. movement ]
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2/3 Water3mn57 color stereo 2000 Australia
by Nicole Neveu
... the strange and visceral reality of physicality, a torsos internal organ tunnel, kinetics of hands as lovers, serving love offerings... 2/3 Water.
self-production
self-distribution
Festival 2001 [ pr. movement ]
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Amok4mn b/w mono 2002 France
by Christophe Martin
Recutting of a scene of "Amok" by Fassbinder.
self-production
self-distribution
Festival 2004 [ pr. movement ]
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Two or three things I know about Ohio2mn16 color mono 2002 USA
by Dan Boord & Luis Valdovino
"Two or three things I know about Ohio" is a charming parody of travel documentary and a quick funny American satire that pays homage to this Great Lakes state. Ohio is known for many things: the Amish, 19th Century farms, humidity, and small towns. Other little knows attractions include an annual parade of twins from all over the world, a live bait dispenser machine that competes with Pepsi for your dollar, the Longaberger Company World Headquaters...
self-production
self-distribution
Festival 2004 [ pr. space ]
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Saturation8mn color stereo 2000 USA
by Kara Hearn
Kara Hearn explores the intersection of body and mind with technology and information overload by documenting the "natural" and personal lanscape of urban dreams and reality.
self-production
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Festival 2001 [ pr. time ]
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Le 2 or seiryoku zenyo2mn40 color stereo 2003 Switzerland
by Chantal Romani
Two girls prepare for their fight. One instant instants - concentration - imagination - action. Seiryoku zenyo - the optimal use of the power.
self-production
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Festival 2004 [ pr. space ]
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Missing marion2mn b/w mono 2003 China
by Yuk-Yiu IP
"Missing Marion" is an imaginary murder of the cinematic presence by its synthetic double. By removing the caracter from Hichcock’s all-too-memorable "shower scene", the figure is eclipsed by its own shadow generated by digital algorithms. The interplay between absence and presence turns this shower into something at once familiar and foreign, quiet and deadly.
self-production
self-distribution
Festival 2004
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pater noster3mn40 color stereo 2001 Germany
by Steph Ketelhut
Four vertical bands with the tone cold and intercalated heats, consisted of labels, appear and disappear in shifted rates/rhythms. One follows the movement twice ascending and twice descendant of open elevators and the to and from of their users.
self-production
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Festival 2001 [ pr. perception ]
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Les Scatophages22mn color mono 2002 France
by Sylvain Frebourg
"Les scatophages" is a ramble across decadent countrysides.
self-production
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Festival 2002 [ pr. time ]
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Projet Jaune Cadmium35mn color stereo 2002 France
by Luc Vancheri & Sandrik Dmitrieff
It's based on the idea of, on one hand, reading the flashing epiphanies of commercials as a possibility or a beginning to an history of the human body and movies forms. And on the other hand, reconsidering the ability of cinematographic pictures to describe, analyse, and develop theories on the reality and themselves.
self-production
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Festival 2003 [ pr. sense ]
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