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Le 14e Festival International
Signes de Nuit
Paris
24 Novembre - 4 Décembre, 2016
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Compétition International
Documentaire
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Jeudi 1 Décembre, 2016 / 18 h
Maison du Portugal
André de Gouveia
Cité internationale
universitaire de Paris
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Initiation
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Teboho Edkins
Germany, South Africa 2016 / 0:11:00
High in the mountains of Lesotho, Mosaku is anxiously awaiting the
return of his older brother from an initiation ceremony. The initiates
spend 5 months in a remote secrete location. What rituals are
performed is known only to those who have taken part. But when the
boys return, they are grown men. Initiation is a video work in which I
take a scene of an existing film of mine, re-work it with unused
footage and shift perspective to that of the younger brother, whereby
it becomes an autonomous work. My voice and an old photograph of me as
a white child growing up in Lesotho intervene as disturbing elements,
simultaneously creating intimacy and distance. Contradictions, notions
of identity and fantasy come to the surface.
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Dum Spiro Sero
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Pero Kvesic
Croatia 2016 / 0:50:00
"Dum spiro spero is a Latin saying meaning ‘while I breathe, I hope’.
Until this day it has remained the motto of those who refuse to quit
until the very last breath. Intertwining daily life, books and death,
the author speaks about losing strength and the strength to cope with
the loss. Everybody die the moment they are born, which is the
greatest reason why to understand the values of life and enjoy the
joys it gives. The acclaimed writer after a series of book made his
first film and his literati experience spoke in a cinematic language
that reaches the level of his literature. Details of ordinary
surrounding and daily life fit in with the story they engender. This
film is to a great extent a one-man show, because next to the script
and directing, the author also filmed all the material and played the
mouth harp."
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Pulse
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Robin Petré
Hungary, Portugal, Belgium
2015 / 0:26:00
One of Europe’s largest deer farms lies hidden in the hills of
southern Hungary and is home to more than 1,500 strong red deer. The
animals are essentially still wild. They were first caught in the
forest and brought to the farm only 25 years ago – and the handling of
them is still a physical conflict between man and animal. ‘Pulse’ is a
poetic, creative documentary playing on the line between raw reality
and dreamy, sensorial experience. Through the deer farm, the film
gives a close look at human-animal relations and the imperialistic way
we deal with nature. The film interweaves present day footage with
archive photographs from the beginning of deer farming in Hungary in
the 1980s. The story follows the beat of the rhythmic pulses
transcending the deer farm: from the skittish deer, to the farmers who
keep them, to the electric pulsation running through the fences
separating the farm deer from the wild.
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24 novembre -4 décembre 2016
Les documentaires (expérimentaux) seront évalués par un jury international ; ces films venant du monde entier parlent d’une manière inédite de tous les aspects sensibles et inquiétants du réel ; ils représentent souvent la réalité de manière ambivalente, énigmatique en évitant des clichés et les conclusions trop simples dans un monde complexe.
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