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Selection of films
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Sunday, April 2, 2006 / 1 pm - 3 pm
Jeu de Paume
Paris |
Movie |
Dzama |
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Deco Dawson
Kanada
2000 / 16 mm / 0:23:00
In an attempt to rekindle the early surrealist films of Bunuel, Dali and Man Ray, Deco Dawson has created a fictional biography filled with whimsy and intrigue on the living pop artist sensation Marcel Dzama. |
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Shoes Zapata |
Los Zapatos de Zapata |
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Luciano Larobina
Mexico
2001 / 35 mm / 0:26:00 / VOST
A look at the life of Emiliano Zapata through a spontaneous personal account. A film, which juxtaposes and mixes traditional images and contemporary culture, mixing styles and types.
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The US Embassy |
Die amerikanische Botschaft |
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David Sieveking
Germany
2003 / 35 mm / 0:10 :00 / VOST
January 2003, on the eve of the US-led Iraq campaign, a young couple tries to improvise a protest march heading the American embassy with the motto "no blood for oil". As nobody shows the solidarity they were trying to gain, the couple starts an argument and the "movement" seems doomed to fail... |
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Elana |
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Jean-Paul Nogues
France
2003 / DV / 0:05:00
A weird backwards penetration of the matter and caress the intimate. Elana reflects from the depth of the body a luminous whiteness. An odd and poignant rhythm of love in deep black and white and panting breathing. |
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Contagious Arbitrary Blindness |
Zymotic-Amausosis |
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Ozan Adam
Turkey
2003 / 16 mm / 0:24:00
Zymotic-Amaurosis: Contagious Arbitrary Blindness is a disease caused by a virus, which can capture and store visual information and memories. The film is about a fantastic journey through the book that tells the fragmented story of the remembrances, visions and dreams of a blind man who is subjected to experiments to reveal the visual data that was recorded by the micro-cameras, which were installed in the eyes of an astronaut for a secret mission. After transplanting the eyes of the astronaut to the blind man, they expect to retrieve the recordings through the dreams of the blind man but they get lost in the surreal absurdity of a complex subconscious
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For Julien |
Für Julian |
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Tim Fehlbaum
Germany
2003 / 16 mm / 0:06:00 / VOST
A silly joke turns into a cruel and decisive nightmare.
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Anolit |
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Stefan Faldbakken
Norway 2002 / 35 mm / 0:25:00 / VOST
Stefan (23) decides not to attend in his father's funeral, as he sees no reason to say goodbye to someone he has never met.He joins his two friends in their Friday night routine; cruising the small town, hanging around at the local gas station not agreeing where to party or, what to blow up.
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La carta (definitive) |
(La carta (definitiva) |
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Isaías R. Jimenez
Spain
2000 / Beta SP / 0:12:12 / VOST
A strange character falls in love with the moon. One day he receives a letter from the stars, in which she tells him that their love relationship is finished. He refuses to accept it and looks for her reflection over the sea to ask her for any reason.
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