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ORLANDO'S BOOK
Wendy MorrisAt the centre of this film is a book of engravings mentioned in Agnes’ Tales. Orlando, the brother of Agnes, was awarded the book as a schoolboy in the mid-1860s for being 'The Boy Most Liked by his School fellows’. It is a book of engravings and poems about the English countryside and it shows a rather idealized view of English farm life...
CLAMOR
Edurne RubioPeople who committed suicide and babies who died before being baptised were not accepted in Catholic cemeteries until not so long ago. Desperate relatives secretly sought out a dignified place for their bodies. Burials that shared hills and wind with executed people, atheists, passers-by, Protestants.....
CHRYSALIDE
Patrick BernatchezChrysalide, for its part, unfolds in a circular travelling movement around a black BMW parked in the basement garage and slowly filling with water. A businessman sits at the wheel, serenely smoking a cigarette as the water level rises. The film ends with water bursting through the doors and windows of the car, saving the protagonist from certain death....
AND_04-2020
Peter DownsbroughIn: 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...
DE LOIN PARALLELE
Bernard GigounonThis work shows three enigmatic individuals throwing rocks into a river. They can be seen as children, as protesters, as thugs, or as dancers. The river absorbs the shocks effortlessly, each collision vanishing through a thousand wrinkles as soon as the act has run its course, a powerful but fleeting spectacle....
FROM SATIN ISLAND
Johan GrimonprezA haunting collage of disaster and beauty, set to a shimmering track by Lights Out Asia, Johan Grimonprez in collaboration with acclaimed avant-garde novelist Tom McCarthy, based on an abstract from his latest book SATIN ISLAND....
EGO
Nicolas ProvostAfter a dizzying trip through the cosmos we see how an astronaut is flung into space. Rudderless, irrevocably heading for the eternal black hole. The images originate from existing films such as Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, the soundtrack offers no redemption. A dystopian vision of the future?...
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Peter DownsbroughThis film essentially consists of one continuous shot taken from the train window during its stop in the station of Metz, France. By way of prelude, … AND opens with a fixed camera shot, a straight, razor-sharp positioning - an image of cars driving in the city. Then, we dive into the film by way of a traveling shot from the window of the train...
SANGAM
Charley CaseApplying image analogies, and flecked throughout by an Indian mythology featuring Biblical allure. A sail down the Ganges is described in a filmic way: one lets himself drift along on a raft, the other walks along the riverbank, their gazes locked. An introspective journey....
KISSY SUZUKI SUCK
Alison MurrayInfluenced by Madonna, physical theatre and punk, Murray assaults stereotypes around female sexuality, violence and pornography. This vibrant, textured slice of night draws on research into the experiences of two trash-blonde sex workers talking dirty....
