Nov.14th/Friday/7PM
Collectif Jeune Cinema Presents
A Program of Short Works
The Picture Show is proud to host Collectif Jeune Cinema, a film collective based in Paris, who will be presenting a collection of recent works.
CJC curator, Filipe Afonso, will be present.
Friday, November 14th, 2014 / 7 PM
CJC - Collectif Jeune Cinéma - founded in 1971, promotes visual experimental practices including distribution of experimental cinema, regular monthly screenings and the yearly Different and Experimental Cinema Festival of Paris. CJC's catalogue includes more than 1300 films from more than 350 filmmakers.
Alice Colomer-Kang, GateFrance China, 2013, 14:12
2013, China, a couple breaks a moral code in a grand Shanghainese hotel. The serenity of this sexual ritual in the horizon pervades throughout the architecture. Indirect sexuality and gender ambivalence subvert the norm of audience expectations.
BIO: Alice Colomer born in 1985 in Paris; she lives and works in Paris. She graduated from “Ecole Nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris” in November 2011, and studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, China. Her films were screened at Semaine de la Critique - Cannes Film Festival, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid and many others festivals and art spaces.
Thibault Le Texier, The Invention of the Desert France, 2013, 07:10
How happened the end of all life on Earth.
BIO: Thibault Le Texier is a researcher in social sciences and a filmmaker. His first film, The Human Factor, won the award for best first film at the festival Clermont - Ferrand in 2012 and was selected in about fifty international film festivals.
Neozoon, MY BBY 3L8W France, Germany, 2014, 03:00
The thirty-track installation MY BBY 8L3W is a video collage about women who present their pet on the internet. The women speak simultaneously the same phrases, which swell to a common meaningless song.
BIO: NEOZOON, founded 2009 is a female art collective based in Germany and France. The artist group has been known for their actions performed in public space in European cities. The founding concept of their work is the relationship between animal and human and the question how modern society deals with both - dead and living animals. Artistic medium of their work is ranging from collages over installations to films.
Christine Brache, Totalitarian Nature China, France, 2013, 03:40
Totalitarian Nature explores surveillance in contemporary society and exhibitionism in the age of social networking, the coming of age, or the becoming of a standard feminine object in preparation for mass consumption: a portrait of the self-imposed totalitarian structure that is womanhood..
BIO: Cristine Brache (born 1984) is an artist and poet. She lives and works in Guangzhou, China.
Les Ballets Russes, Herbe France, 2014, 03:05
When decapitated statues grow like queens, sinking in the throat, a grass.
BIO: Les Ballets Russes are Orsten Groom and Elodie Tamayo: (found) Image and (found) text then triturated through the Ballets Russes’ way.
Jacques Perconte, Árvore da Vida France, 2013, 09:00
The tree of life, an almost monochromatic cycle where the dominant is not an absolute rule. Here is a tree in the forest. It is from it that life arises full of wisdom. The awakening of a simple presence for the story of a life. From one green to another, an entire cycle awaits us.
BIO: Born in 1974 in Grenoble, Jacques Perconte lives and works in Paris after having spent many years in south-west. Jacques Perconte explores the body, the landscape and the color through the digital supports. Every work naturally finds its expression in an adequate medium: video, photography, interactive creation, writing or music installations..
Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson, Blind Data France, Italy, 2013, 11:00
Tube-tract # 3, beach terminal 2013.
BIO: Maglioni and Graeme Thomson made a constellation of works and have collaborated with ANA AND AND (dOCUMENTA (13)), 16beaver (New York), The Otolith Group (London), Collectif Jeune Cinéma (Paris). Facs of Life, their first feature film, premiered at the FID Marseille in 2009,and were screened after in various international film festivals and art spaces, including BAFICI,Jihlava, Il Vento del Cinema, Lucca Film Festival, Ludwig Museum, Tate Britain, Turner PrizeExhibition, the Clovis Salgado Foundation, Serralves and Anthology Film Archives.
François Bonenfant, Ce que mon amour doit voir Portugal, France, 2013, 11:20
The hyper-minimalist and sensual What My Love Must See (“Ce que mon amour doit voir”) seduces the viewer by subtly modifying his perception of the same image: a living postcard, that contains the aural fingerprint of a love story and, at the same time, a poetical equation about cinema, with essential elements of the cinematic language as variables. Françoise Bonenfant proposes a powerful and touching visual dialogue between the viewer and a man looking unyieldingly into the camera in three different moments of the day, from one of Lisbon’s romantic rooftops. While the sunlight travels over the man’s face towards the sunset and the Portuguese love song, heard first in the distance from a radio, comes closer and closer, hummed by the man's warm voice and finally embracing us as unique sound-scape, nostalgia and longing subtly sneak under our skin, until fully possessing our hearts and bodies. (Oana Ghera & Adina Pintilie, BIEFF 2013)
BIO: François Bonenfant as a filmmaker has participated among others at Cinéma du Réel, IndieLisboa, Hors Pistes and Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival.
Yves-Marie Mahé, “Libertine” x 6 France, 2014, 03:46
Images and sounds are superimposed through a phasing technique, which was originally developed by Steve Reich.
BIO: Born in Morlaix. As a minimalist (working on a single source and attempting to exploit its full potential), Yves-Marie Mahé frequently uses animation techniques. Fast and aggressive, his work attempts to find an equivalent to hardcore punk. Often, it is accompanied by a form of ironic detachment. The desire to validate a form from the bottom remains omnipresent. Founder of the "Collective Negative" since 2007.
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