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The 6th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris

March 31th - April 5th 2008

Cinéma Archipel
Centre Culturel Irlandais
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Fondation Suisse
 

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International Competition
Short Film
# 8
Thursday April 3th 2008 / 8 pm
Cinéma Archipel
Paris


Unlith
 
Unlith


Mihai Grecu
France, Romania
2007 / DV / 0:08:00

In a cold, hostile atmosphere, two men with dogs meet. Their gestures and reactions cause subtle tensions, agression makes the body mutate and distorts the surroundings. Ominous , surrealist work with phenomenal digital effects.

 


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Morbus Bechterew
 
morbus bechterew


Lola Randl et Reiner Egger
Germany
2006 / DV / 0:15:00 / Without dialog

Portrait of a very relaxed charakter.

 


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Snow Flower
 
Snow flower


Mikito Kyo
Japan
2006 / HD / 0:20:00 / VOSTE

Yuki No Hana is a contemporary story about a strugglinh couple who is bound to an unforgettable past. Shutting her eyes to reality, Takako wallows in her own emotional desolation while her husband is striving to get over it.

 


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Les murs consistent seulement de lŽair
Acesti pereti sunt doar din aer  


Eva Pervolovci
Romania
2007 / Beta SP / 0:04:50 / Without dialog

A writer begins to tear up walls in search of inspiration.

 


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Kramasha
 
Kramasha


Amit Dutta
India
2007 / 35 mm / 0:22:00 / Without dialog

An Ascetic walks throught the narror streets of the village every morning while his family is still asleep. In his semi-somnolent statehe dreams about the history of the village mixing up myths, foklore and facts.

 


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Re: Commandments
 
Re : Commandements


Guli Silberstein
Israel
2007 / DV / 0:05:00 / Without dialog

A rapid stream of looped images sampled from the epic Hollywood film “The Ten Commandments”, TV news broadcasts depicting the summer 2006 war in Lebanon, and a lively belly dancer, all synced up to a hardcore techno track - an apocalyptic Middle East horror rave party unfolds, unveiling contradictions and pathologies in human behavior and beliefs.

 


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Remote Intimacy
 
Remote Intimacy


Sylvia Schedelbauer
Germany
2007 / DV / 0:14:30 / VOA

A montage of metaphorical black and white archival footage from the 1920s to the 1970s- of fishing boats, marien ships, sea birds, forest workers and playing kids- are combined with text fragments and form an associative stream of consciousness, that revolves around the connections betzeen the collective and individual, war and peace, family and biography.

 

 


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Girls
 
Remote Intimacy


Sebastion Godwin
Great Britain
2007 / DV / 0:10:00 / VO

A father returns home from work to find his two young daughters playing in the garden. They invite him to play with them. But their innocent game seems not so innocent at all after a while.

 

 


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March 31th - April 5th, 2008

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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