LA SAISON DES FUNÉRAILLES

Matthew Lancit
Surrounded by villages deeply rooted in ancestral traditions, Dschang is an expanding university town in the heart of Cameroon. Its inhabitants define themselves between the clash of old-world mysticism and modern development...

ANINA

Alkaios Spyrou
ANINA documents a voyage onboard a container ship, crossing into Baltic. In the form of a film-essay without a narrator, the film assumes the point of view of these iron cathedrals, the industrial maritime landscape they exist in, and the aesthetic spectacles they produce midst the logistical cacophony of capitalism and territory....

GEOGRAPHIES OF FREEDOM

Miguel Peres dos Santos
There’s an uncanny kind of shock value to hearing a friendly, old-timey television announcer speak of how the “simple people” of the Netherlands Antilles were rescued from “primitive living conditions” when large oil refineries appeared on the islands, ending their “deficient medical care and lack of hygiene...

THEN AS

Peter Downsbrough
THEN AS was shot in Tours and Saint-Pierre-des-corps in central France with the assistance of a group of students from the Ecole supérieure d'Art et Design TALM-Tours. Peter had been invited to do an exhibition at the Galerie Mame in Tours by David Kidman, who teaches film making at the school...

THERE

Peter Downsbrough
Just over two minutes long, THERE enfolds key components of Peter Downsbrough’s multiform practice: the visual vocabulary, formal strategies, and enduring themes found in his books, sculptures, architectural interventions (room pieces and wall pieces), photographs, postcards, and many of his other videos...

AND_04-2020

Peter Downsbrough
In: Place #3, Janvier/ January 2021, D’UNE PLACE L’AUTRE / CHANGING PLACES https://www.place-plateforme.com/place3/peter-downsbrough-and.html AND_04.2020 opens with a black screen and the sound of a man’s voice rising over the noise of traffic. His words are hard to distinguish, but their tones and cadence indicate they might be Chinese...

BIRD IN ITALIAN IS UCCELLO

Gernot Wieland
Gernot Wieland's new film, Bird in Italian is Uccello (2021), furthers his interest in psychological states and the constitution of belonging in different social contexts. Drawing upon Daphne du Maurier’s short story The Birds, and its subsequent cinematic adaptation, Bird in Italian is Uccello (re)enacts a theatrical production of the horror-thriller...

CONTAMINATE ME

Steve Reinke - Jessie Mott
The small cruelties of a subliminal fog roll in. A pandemic thwarts intimacy. Perched from their little planets, this cast of wildly colorful creatures question their futures and navigate the longing for connection. This is the fifth collaboration between Jessie Mott and Steve Reinke....

LIBERATION RADIO

Esther Johnson
This is Liberation Radio. In 1968, a group of American military deserters went to the North Vietnamese mission in Stockholm with one object in mind – to join the army they had been drafted to fight. Instead, they were recruited for the propaganda war – and use magnetic tape, pop music and political rhetoric to persuade other American servicemen to desert...

MOUNE Ô

Maxime Jean-Baptiste
"I close my eyes. The crowd makes me smile, breaks my body, and that's the end". By presenting the festive events which escorted the projection of the film Jean Galmot aventurier by Alain Maline, where the father's filmmaker played a role, the images of Moune Ô reveal the survival of the colonial inheritance within a Western collective unconscious always marked of stereotypes...