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The 16th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris

October 4th - 14th, 2018

cite universitaire
Maison du Portugal
Maison du Mexique
Main d'oeuvres
 Bibliotheque Francois Truffaut
 Bibliotheque Francois Truffaut



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International Competition
Cinema in Trangresion
# 1
Monday 8, october 2018 / 8 pm
Maison duJapon
Cité internationale universitaire de Paris

 

The Audaciousness of the Time
Audacia del tiempo

The audacciousness

 

PARIS PREMIERE


Marcela Alcalde

Libanon, Argentina
2017 | 00:03:00

"Audacia del tiempo" is an experimental short film based on a poem of the same name, written by its author. It is a collage of images and textures grasped by the echo of the passage of time in memory. Audacity of time, get entangled in the dream or its symptomatic equivalence ... Opprobrium of a deranged and tiny Eros: the crouching loss in the mute of waiting.

 

 

Lost and Found Notice #6083

Lost and Found notice

 

WORLD PREMIERE


Elysa Wendi

Hongkong
2018 | 00:05:00

This is a monologue of the woman encountering an environment that is both too close and too far off with her lost love in collapsing time-space.

 

 

Making and Unmaking of the Earth

Making and Unmaking of the Earth

 


Jessica Bardsley

USA
2018 | 00:17:00

"When one hears about another person's physical pain, the events happening within the interior of that person's body may seem to have the remote character of some deep subterranean fact, belonging to an invisible geography that, however portentous, has no reality because it has not yet manifested on the visible surface of the earth." --Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain This film uses Scarry's metaphor of the earth and its geology in order to explore experiences of physical and emotional pain, which can have mysterious or unexpected sources and can go unnoticed by others. Combining archival footage of earth processes with interviews of mysterious experiences of physical and emotional pain, The Making and Unmaking of the Earth turns to geology to make visible the often invisible events happening inside of people.

 

 

Far from Amazonia

Far from Amazonia

 


Francisco Carvalho

Portugal
2018 | 00:17:00

In 1783, naturalist Alexandre Rodrigues Ferreira travelled to Amazonia. Centuries later, all that remains from his Philosophical Journey are the artifacts belonging the tribes he studied and the animals and plants he brought over to Portugal, evoking a distant Amazonia and an expedition that went on for nine years.

 

 

The Yellow Snake Is Waiting

The Yellow Snake Is Waiting

 

EUROPE PREMIERE


Tzu Huan Lin

Taiwan, USA
2017 | 00:18:00

Referencing French thinkers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of “desiring machines,” Tzu-huan LIN questions the autonomy of desire mechanisms through video that portraying life in eternity in The Yellow Snake is Waiting. LIN cites three classic allegories of desire—Chinese Emperor Qin Shihuang’s quest for eternal life, serpent in the Garden of Eden, and Medusa’s tale—and furthermore sheds light on how to free oneself from desires based on Zhuangzi’s philosophy of the Butterfly and the Fish. Incorporating his own dreams, LIN weaves the three stories together: Emperor Qin longs for eternal life despite having absolute power; the serpent of desire is the only being that could converse with humans in the Garden of Eden; Medusa’s head turns into a machine of desire to which venomous snakes are forever anchored... The video features various forms of desire in LIN’s dreams. Zhuangzi’s pursuit of spiritual freedom is highlighted through the artist’s attempt to search himself and happiness.


 

 

What Happens to the Mountain

What Happens to the Mountain

 

FRENCH PREMIERE


Christin Turner

USA
2017 | 00:12:00

"What Happens to the Mountain" draws upon literary sources, late night radio, and ancient legends to conjure a psycho-geographic experience in a sacred landscape. A long-distance driver, a drifter, journeys from a tenuous reality into a vision of the afterlife, called forth by the spirit of the mountain.




 

 

To find the Day of 21st

To find the Day of 21st

 

FRENCH PREMIERE


Kieko Ikehata

Japan
2017 | 00:13:38

The main role is played by old family photographs. Illuminated by the beam of a flashlight like the objects of a treasure hunt, these pictures that are displayed pinned to a tatami mat present a strange scene. Encouraged to solve the mystery by the enigmatic developments surrounding a date that has been lost, we cannot follow this path to the “truth.” A work in which both the monologue and visuals make use of the immense power of poetry to deliver a message.

 



4 - 14 october 2018

The section "Cinéma in Transgression" offers middle or feature lengh films out of norm and order, between fiction and documentary, characterised by complex audio-visual languages, unpredictable associations based on unconcient, metaphorical and metonymical proceedings. In this way these films can express the complexity of reality.


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