French Touch
# 2
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Monday 15 December 2014 / 6 pm
Maison Heinrich Heine
Cité Universitaire / Paris
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Seduction and Bullfighting
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Séduction et Tauromachie
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Frédérik Dany
France
2014 | 0:09/00
The eighth épisode of the second part of an imaginary biography about Orson Welles, in thirty « audiovisual collages ». Orson Welles and women, a portrait in seven minutes.
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Nectar
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Lucile Hadzihalilovic
France
2013 | 0:18:20
A man returns to the farm where he grew up hoping to discover the truth about "the thing" that landed there in the summer of 1960, when he was only a boy.
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Gravity Wave
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Rayon de marée |
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David Bart
France
2013 | 0:04:00
A cycle of the tide goes down and up like a perpetual play. A reflection upon the cosmic dimension of its gravitational effect. |
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The Modern Skateboarding
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Le Skate Moderne |
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Antoine Besse
France
2014 | 0:07:00
Far from the classic lines of “fisheye” skate videos and the perfect, smooth concrete spots you might be used to, “Le Skate Moderne” brings us a group of skateboarders who think nothing of taking to the mud and skating through the unusual and atypical surroundings of the French countryside. Somewhere between fiction and documentary, this video contemplatively follows a group of skateboarder farmers into the remotest parts of the Dordogne. |
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Simulacre
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Vincent Vicario
France
2014 | 0:14:00
On a country road, a woman and a child gradually sink into the heart of nature. Upon arrival, they partake in a ritual. Listening to the singing of insects and the rustling inside. The expectation and the dream begins... A journey through the memories and sounds of childhood, dreams and the mysteries of the natural world. |
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The Loire will forever whisper your name
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La Loire chuchotera toujours ton nom |
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Rodolphe Viémont
France
2014 | 0:12:00
Among his recently deceased father’s things, a writer and filmmaker finds a novel no one in the family knew about. The father was a biologist and had no reason to write. He obviously had been writing though, thirty years before his own son published a novel of his own. The son reads it and discovers similarities with his father he had never suspected. Why did the biologist stop writing when he had a family? What if, having come from a poor background, he’d preferred money to a bohemian path? What if, lacking in self-confidence, he’d decided to transfer his artistic dreams to his children? And what if that man had ended up losing a part of himself? |
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Humanity Zero Year
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Florence Gatineau-S Bex
France
2013 | 0:06:50
Security cameras are watching us, impassively. They produce pictures unconcerned about the misfortune of the humanity. But through the absolute silence of the cosmos, from these pictures; voices, cries and whispers, ghostly traces of a humanity witch goes on disappearing, will arise again. All the pictures of this movie were extract from the web and were shooted by security cameras. |
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The Dive
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Le Plongeon |
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Delphine Le Courtois
France
2013 | 0:10:00
On his thirteenth birthday, Leo is standing still in the middle of a busy pool. Instead of playing with the other children, he watches a pretty girl a couple of years older than him. When the girl notices a young man diving form the high board, Leo decides to jump too. Waiting for his turn amongst the adults, Leo looks back at his family carrying on as before, unaware of him. When he reaches the top, he gains a new perspective: through the children playing in the pool, he looks back at the childhood he is leaving behind, ready to face the unknown. |
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Eliott Nagual
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Simon Maignan
France
2014 | 0:24:00
Since a few years, a young hacker named Eliott Nagual worries the authorities. His recent conferences about freedom of information does not ease the situation. The very last of them marks a point of no return : Eliott publicly disclose governmental informations and documents. His life is now endangered.
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