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The 10th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris

October 11th - 16th 2012

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International Competition
Short Film
# 3
October 16th 2012 / 6 pm
Cinéma Action Christine
Paris


The Painting
 
The Painting


Glen Laker

Great Britain

2011 | 00:06:00

A painter stands in a solitary spot, far away from the rest of the world, only the sounds of the gathering seagulls and the softly lapping surf to keep him company... and then a woman appears, dead center in the view he is painting. The woman tries to strike up a conversation with the man, but he would rather be left alone. When the woman asks if she can sketch the view, the man gives her a pencil and some paper. The woman retreats to a quiet spot. The woman finishes her sketch and then, in the blink of an eye, she vanishes. Alone, the man is unnerved. He looks everywhere for her. Then settles upon her sketch. It matches his painting, but for one detail: a shape floating in the sea. The man investigates..



FRENCH PREMIERE
Extrait :
https://youtu.be/Mw-Bqe1X1Tk
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Implausible Things # 1
 
Implausible Things


Rita Macedo

Portugal, Germany

2012 | 00:11:45

The conception we have of ourselves and the world - and that of our relation to the world - appears, admittedly or not, to obey the stipulation that everything must have a cause or a reason to be as it is and not otherwise. What if we reverse this perspective on things and admit a principle of unreason instead? A principle based on the absence of any reason, through which nothing would be impossible, not even the unthinkable? Hipercaos as primary absolute. Implausible things #1 is the first volume of a serial that looks to reflect upon human existence, the absurd, randomness and pure contingency.

FRENCH PREMIERE
Extrait :
https://vimeo.com/100634172
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Sounding Glass
 
Sounding Glass


Sylvia Schedelbauer

Germany

2011 | 0:10:07

A man and an eye in the forest. Nameless tension, tunnel, prison or possible escape.

FRENCH PREMIERE

 


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Miss Candace Hilligoss' Flickering Halo
 
Miss Candace


Fabio Scacchioli, Vincenzo Core

Italy

2011 | 00:13:45

The beginning is another film: an American early-’60s noir, dissected and demolished, whose tortured and “subverted“ images are organized in precarious, fragile and ever-changing structures, in multiple plotlines criss-crossing in a state of constant collapse. Provoke the deflagration of a closed system through a mechanism of chain implosions. Forget what you see while you’re still observing it, and immerse yourself in an ancestral optical vibration. A howl without a reason.

 
Extrait :
http://vimeo.com/27329474
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Mupepy Munatim
 
Mupepy Munatim


Pedro Peralta

Portugal

2012 | 0:18:30

A man returns from France to Portugal in search of his Mother's grave. Wants to make her an homage. Wants to redeem himself from the past. He searches for the only person who might know where his mother is buried. He founds her, but she knows nothing. When he is ready to give up he has a revelation. The promise must be fulfilled.

FRENCH PREMIERE

Extrait :
https://youtu.be/2HuXuuFSajI
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Inquire within
 
Inquire within


Jay Rosenblatt

United States

2012 | 0:04:00

A hypnotic examination of false choices, double binds, vulnerability, and faith.

FRENCH PREMIERE
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Solo
 
Solo


Yonezawa Mina

Japan

2012 | 0:11:00

Japan. Buildings and homes have been destroid during the earth quake 2011 and the following tsunami. The destruction brought first death, then the fear to forget the deaths. But don't they going on living in the hearts of the survivors?

FRENCH PREMIERE
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Life in one Minute
 
Life in one minute


Pedro Collantes

Spain

2011 | 0:01:30

An old man reflects about love and the shortness of life.

FRENCH PREMIERE
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After the Never
 
After the never


Marjam Kazemi

Iran

2011 | 0:07:00

A isolated woman proceeds strange ritual movements in the montaigns.

EUROPEAN PREMIERE
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October 11th - 16th 2012

 An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. The festival prefers film treating important subjects in an original way, films which don't avoid ambiguity and complexity, films, which are sometimes stay enigmatic, so that refection and mind are going on moving, exceptional films, which covers all kind of artistically expressions, films open for esthetical innovation, shortly films reflecting the perturbing strangeness of the modern world in a complex way.


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