International Festival Signes de Nuit / Armenia / Yerevan / 2015

International Festival
Signes de Nuit
FISDN

The International Festival
Signes de Nuit
(Signs of the Night)

is invited by the

ONE SHOT FESTIVAL

Armenian Center For Contemporary Experimental Art

NPAK Yerevan
Armenia

April 4 - May 30 May, 2015

www.accea.info

PROGRAM

Semalu

Jimmy Hendrickx
Belgium, Malaysia
2013 | 0:15:00

Semalu, which means sensitive plant in Malay, is a cinematic portrait of the abandoned children of Cheras, a suburb in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A place in a process of modernization. Between a noisy landscape of construction works we see the next generation grow up. The ancestors of these children came here to build a new future. 30 years ago this territory was still jungle and swamp. Far away from the jungle this will be be the kids’ new urban residence. Semalu is a dark, yet magical journey along their concrete playground.

Extrait:
https://vimeo.com/38908018

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Emergency Calls

Hätäkutsu

Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen
Finland
2013 | 0:15:00

Being human is a fragile and fleeting opportunity to experience life and the universe around us. In the face of overwhelming darkness all we can do is to rely on and find solace in one another.

Extrait :
:http://vimeo.com/83358917

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Porcelain

Porcelana

Sept fois par jour nous nous plaignons de notre sort et la nuit, nous nous levons, pour ne pas rêver

Betzabé García
Mexico
2014 | 0:12:00

Between childhood fantasy and reality, Marian stumbles with family life, death and sexuality, all in a day's work.

Extrait :
:http://vimeo.com/61147919

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Yaar
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Simon Gillard
Belgium
2013 | 0:20:00

Yaar, in the heart of the bush where the gravel is hollowed, a stubborn civilisation hunts out its future below the earth's surface. Blind, or perhaps all too seeing, they dig away, night and day, spurred on by the madness that drives man to his death.

Interview:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxe32YrSMKI

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Seven Times a day we bemoan our lot and at night we get up to avoid dreaming

Sieben Mal am Tag beklagen wir unser Los und Nachts stehen wir auf um nicht zu träumen

Susann Maria Hempel
Germany
2014 | 0:18:00

A cinematic devotional book. Based on interviews with an unemployable sufferer (and his fellows), living in the East German countryside, who lost his memory in 1989 and woke up into several nightmares.

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The Bird House
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Tori no Ie

Vegas

Mina Arai
Japan
2014 | 0:07:00

In an old house, a metal bird sits at it's perch pecking a bowl full of needles. The needles scatter across the floor and take us on a journey through different stages of the bird's life. Abstract images show humans slaughtering, consuming, and caging birds.

Extrait :
http://vimeo.com/88514575

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Chimney
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Kamina

Arttu Nieminen, Roosa Nevala
Finland
2014 | 0:04:30

Sensual poetic rhytmn of Kamina leads you to a cabin in the wilderness where love turns in to a hypnotic shape. Light in the fireplace witnesses the miracle of life, when two become one.