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DUE TO THE SITUATION IN LEBANON (MAY 2008), THIS PART IS PRESENTED ON SAT. JUNE 14, 2008 20h-21h45
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Festival International Signes de Nuit Paris . May 8, 2008. 20:00 - 21:45
Signes de Nuit international festival in Paris is comprised of films, which reflect new views, original imagery and critical approach to the crucial points of the modern human existence. It is a place for cinema that expands its own boundaries, that is astonishing, different, potentially free from the pressure of tradition, ready to give itself to the unpredictable experiment.
Special artistic forms of these films, which combine music, image, movement, rhythm, text, space, lighting and time carry not only an aesthetic purpose, but also broaden the possibilities of communication and understanding between people within different international communities, with their mental, social and physiological phenomena. This is the responsibility of the modern cinema and audio-visual production.
The low cost of digital production allows for large numbers of independent production companies, which are influenced by neither the commercial nor the political censorship. These independent companies create an alternative, socially accessible artistic space, which opposes the mass media that is prone to be influenced by mass economics.
This opposition and the preservation of the free cultural space is the goal of Signes de Nuit festival, which was held in 16 different countries including Australia, Cuba, Lebanon, Liuanie, Japan, Peru, Russia and Turkey beside the main festival in Paris, which has shown in its last edition 2007 around 160 short films coming from 55 countries. |
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"Rewind Tape" by Morton Chr. J. Olsen
Denmark (2006), Beta SP, 16 min
In a war-torn landscape, a boy is on the run with a tape recorfer which plays fragments of conversations from another age. |
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"Impending Doom" by Egdar Pêra
Portugal (2006), no dialogue, DV, 7 min
Shot in super 8 Impending doom and is a visual testimony and a sonic interpretation of two ceremonies of communion that took place in Rome and in Lisbon in the year of 2005. Both communities with different kind of beliefs and ideologies shared a sense of pain, grief and peace in a world at war. |
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"19 : Victoria, Texas" by Dolissa Medina
USA (2006), DV, 4 min
Audiovisual approach of a US tragedy that claimed the lives of dozens of emigrants. |
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"Dormente" by Joel Pizzini
Brazil (2005), no dialogue, 35 mm, 15 min
Stations, tracks and electric wires from the nighttime frame of Dormente, which reveals formmms without borders, paralysed forces, repetitive gestures, memories, self portraits and the darkness of our daily journey. |
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"Le remords" by Nathalie Combe and Yann Sinic
France (2006), DV, 4 min
"So it’s true that we can’t realise in some hours what we havn’t done all our life." |
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"Lens" by Dije Han Thung
Netherlands (2006), 35 mm, 6 min
A documentarist becomes the victim of his cinematographic subject. The camera turns around against himself. |
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"Monkey love" by Tan Royston
Japan, Singapore (2005), Beta SP, 9 min
In the winter landscape of Hokkaido, a guy in a monkey suit is searching for lost love. A meditation on life and art, love and longing, , lyrical, enigmatic, pensive, whimsical and spare - like a haiku. |
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"The Rosty Snow" by Tamara Taddeo
Canada (2006), Beta SP, 12 min
A film dedicated to her dead father where the director uses home movies, images of a deserted farm, lyrical moments and an enigma of an unsolved murder to say how difficult it is to love. In the past tense. |
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"Sub_sectio" by Wim Jongelijk
Netherlands (2006), no dialogue, 16mm, 16 min
Originally shot in 1997 - with in the main role the wife of the director being pregnant in the 8th month – and edited in 2006, SUB_SECTIO is a personal, compelling fetish-horrormovie on upcoming parenthood in which the woman gives birth to furniture. |
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"A Man’s got to do what a man’s go to do" by Harald Schleicher
Germany (2006), no dialogue, Beta SP, 9 min
What does it take to become a man, to be a man, to stay a man? Heroes of the silver screen show us the way. Icons of the movies speak out on male identity, friendship and love. |
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