International Festival Signs of the Night - Paris
Festival internatinal Signes de nuit - Paris
 

22e Festival international Signes de Nuit - Paris / 4-13 Octobre 2024
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Thursday, October 10th, 2024 -10 pm
Maison des étudiants canadiens
Cité universitaire
75014 Paris


 

Vanishing Heat

 

Kent Tate
Canada / 2024 / 0:04:42


Vanishing Heat is part of a series of films where I explore the dichotomy between tranquility and activity in our natural and manufactured worlds. Time, motion and stillness are intertwined to express interactions that are both deliberate and accidental as energy given off by one system affects an other.

FRENCH PREMIERE


 

 

Rain

 

Mike Hoolboom
Canada / 2024 / 0:05:20


How to step into a new kind of Jerusalem without becoming what we feared? How to leave behind every notion of the chosen few, and embrace the ones along the way, finding a promised land in each other. Based on an excerpt from the poem Red Sea: April 2002 by Aurora Levins Morales, a disabled Puerto Rican Jewish writer and activist.


FRENCH PREMIERE





 

 

The Two of Us

Conor Struan Forrest
Canada / 2023 / 0:14:48


11-year-old Jerry is a regular kid with an "evil" big sister, Madison, and pretty ordinary parents. He starts to develop a crush on a girl and in the process becomes confused by the relationships around him. Discovering his parent’s open non-monogamous relationship, he comes to understand that what may appear complicated, isn’t necessarily so; Sometimes it just works.



FRENCH PREMIERE






 

 

Bouscueil

 

Thomy Laporte
Canada / 2023 / 00:09:57


Bouscueil. Quebec word describing the chaotic piling up of ice floes from the effect of wind, tides or currents.



 

 

ARK

Kent Tate
/ Canada / 2023 / 0:04:04


Ark describes a time when we had a front row seat where it seemed that we could see everything yet it felt as if we were seeing nothing at all. Over the years I’ve found fewer and fewer animals when I go out into nature to look at this or to film that. In the last year I haven’t found any wild animals and I've rarely heard any birds. So where have all the other animals gone? What has happened to them and what is happening to us?









   

Grey Falls, Fraser River Delta, Winter

 

Christopher Pavsek
Canada / 2023 / 0:21:41


An experimental nature documentary that explores the human relationship to nonhuman animals, above all birds, and the natural world more broadly. Shot during the winter in the Fraser River delta in British Columbia, Canada, "As Grey Falls” portrays a threatened landscape deeply shaped by human activity but still, for now, full of wild life.

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE




   

The Art of Aging

 

Sean Frewer
Canada / 2023 / 0:14:56


An experimental nature documentary that explores the human relationship to nonhuman animals, above all birds, and the natural world more broadly. Shot during the winter in the Fraser River delta in British Columbia, Canada, "As Grey Falls” portrays a threatened landscape deeply shaped by human activity but still, for now, full of wild life.

WORLD PREMIERE


   

EarthWorm

 

Phillip Barker
Canada / 2023 / 0:16:16


Sean’s mission on Earth is to help humans live forever by eradicating useless states of emotion and instinct. However, confronted with "Earth’s pointless gravity", Sean’s body weakens. He seeks the help of a domesticated horse, who introduces him to poetry. Undaunted, he continues to collect samples from Earth: animals, worms, and the very children who have befriended him.

PARIS PREMIERE