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11th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris
October 10th - 20th 2013 |
Cité Universitaire
Bd. Jourdan, 75014 Paris
Résidence Lucien Paye
Maison du Portugal
Maison de l'Italie
Maison Heinrich Heine
College de l'Espagne
Maison du Japon |
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International Competition
Short Films
Program n° 9
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Day: Monday 14th October
Time: 5 pm
Place : Résidence Lucien Paye at the Cité Universitaire / Paris |
October 11th - 15th 2013
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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Unknown Tale (Tanihgi negen domog)
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Sanchirchimeg Vanchinjav
Germany, Mongolia
2013 / 0:05:0
Is it possibe to compare the moments of a day with different ages of people? The morning as merry as a playing child, midday as radiant as a young woman and the evening as wise as an old lady. This oneiric story was inspired by old Mongolian traditions, riddles and legends.
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God's Amnesia |
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Christos Christodoulou
Cypre
2012 / 0:15:30
How can we cope with a tragic finality, when logic fails to reedem us? When in a hospital room a woman asks to see her child, she is asked to follow the typical procedure. As every attempt fails, she convulses into the forgotten trails of her subconscious bringing to the surface fragmented memories, which threaten to constitute, at any given time, a tragic picture of reality. Sometimes, when faced with the possibility of an unbearable pain, our need for redemption leads us to a realization that transcends the confines of rational human perception.
Extract:
https://vimeo.com/50427833
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Dilli Dreams |
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Etinne Sievers
Germany
2012 / 0:09:00
An aging man living in hardship amidst the crowded bazaars of Old Delhi reflects on his childhood in the countryside and the incidents that changed his life.
Extrait:
https://vimeo.com/41648211
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The Course of Things |
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Collectif-fact, Annelore Schne Schneider et Piguet
United Kingdom, Switzerland
2012 / 0:10:00
The video 'The Course of Things' uses the language of films to manoeuvre and influence our interpretation of images and stories. To do so, the artists have recorded on a daily basis the visitors of the London Natural History Museum and turn them into actors. In other words, they have edited the resulting footage in such a matter that it triggers our collective memory about action and crime narrative.
The performance of everyday life is often predictable, but at time unexpected, surprising and shocking. This video doesn't stage everyday life but design its performance. The video questions the boundaries between fiction and reality.
Extrait:
https://vimeo.com/59562645
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Echo |
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Ela Gas
Ireland
2012 / 0:14:00
Echo explores the adolescence of Emily, a young girl living with her wheelchair-bound grandmother, Halina, in a cavernous old house. Emily lives in a fantasy of her own creation, in which she objectively observes life around her with a fervent curiosity. She questions the existence of her grandmother, her aged body and of the strange vessel she finds herself in. Emily is suddenly not the centre of her own universe anymore. She starts to question the interdependence of living things, and the purpose of her own existence.
Extrait:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAsUkOkOb1E
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Go Burning Atacama Go |
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Alberto Gemmi
Germany, France, Italy
2012 / 0:05:30
A reflection on the concept of memory and time after the violent departure of a friend. Denied images that travel in a lyrical and gaseous state of perception, through the elaboration of the filmic mistake. A film of organic suffering as a way to go beyond this pain, something I like to define as << "Cinema-therapy".
Extrait:
http://vimeo.com/33044643
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The Paraffin Price |
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Pavel Vesnakov
Bulgaria
2012 / 0:23:00
When Yavor realizes that his world is falling apart, the first thing that strikes his mind is the need to meet his best friend Ferti - in the neighborhood where they have grown up together. Driven to desperation the two boys find comfort in memories and drugs.
Extrait:
http://vimeo.com/3515357
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The Macuto with a Movie Camera |
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The Macuto Collective
Spain
2013 / 0:14:30
The eye as a camera, the camera as the eye. Following the late Dziga Vertov's rigid and dogmatic views on cinema, The Macuto Collectives attempt to show in a pure cinematographic manner, some passages of a camer man's journals. The city in all it's beauty and ugliness, people at work and during their times of rest, machinery, masses, sparks, and soon enough, the man who makes it all happen, the camera man. We follow him for a day, a day in which his search for cinematographic truth turns into a hazy nostalgic journey to his past, to his far away country and its voluptuous women, by way of drunkenness and debouchery.
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