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The 15th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Lisbonne
23 November - 3 December, 2017
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International Competition
Cinema in Trangresion
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Tuesday, November 28, 2017 / 6 pm
Ruadas Gaivotas 6
Lisbonne |
Q |
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Milja Viita
Finland
2016 | 0:06:00
The artist’s firstborn son transformed, in the blink of an eye, into a
young man. Q is a conceptual film about forces that change the world.
Q takes us to the end of the worlds, the depths of the ocean and to
the ruins of Atlantis. Q’s destruction is the road to new growth — it
is the only promise of continuity and the emergence of new nations. Q
is shot on 16 mm film whose surface has been hand-coloured. But what
or who is Q?
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La Luna |
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Luísa Sequeira
Portugal
2016 | 00:08:00
Grandmother, mother, sister, niece and I... Four generations. Five
women from the same family connected by water, blood and love.
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LISBONNE PREMIERE |
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Copyrette |
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Marc de Leeuw
Netherlands
2016 | 0:09:00
The nude body of a young woman lies motionless on a kitchen floor. In
a nearby forest a man calls out for his dog. Their paths cross at a
copy shop where it appears that the outwardly shy womanhas a strange
obsession with her body image.
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165708 |
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Josephine Massarella
Canada
2017 | 0:06:00
Shot entirely in 16mm black and white film using single frame
photography, 165708 employs in-camera techniques and chemical
manipulation of processed film to produce an eidetic study of temporal
elasticity. Techniques include flicker, time-lapse, light painting,
stop motion, tinting, and toning. Combined with cycles of alternating
exposed frames, these methods imbue the work with a rhythmic
magnetism, apparent both in the tempo and the aesthetic of the images.
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PORTUGAL PREMIERE |
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Long Yearning |
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Ellliot Spencer
Australie
2017 | 0:24:00
“Long Yearning” is a cinematic exploration of the lives of Chinese
factory workers and the nature of repetitive industrialised work. The
film is intermixed with written excerpts of traditional Chinese
poetry, creating a surreal merging between modern and ancient China.
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Gibraltar Point (transformed) |
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Penny McCann
Canada
2017 | 0:06:04
Erratic flashes of light spark across a flickering expanse of water
and sky. The image itself can’t be contained as light and debris spill
outside the frame. The random alchemy of hand-processing techniques
creates a landscape that transcends the observable, edging into the
sublime.
This is the ninth work in my ongoing series of poetic landscape films.
Gibraltar Point (transformed) was created during a residency at
Artscape Gibraltar Point on Toronto Island. Shot on black and white
16mm film, hand-processed, then transferred digitally to 2k digital
files with an ambient sound design by Michelle Irving.
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PORTUGZL PREMIERE |
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The Dead Walk Side by Side with the Living |
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Maria Ĺngerman
Finland
2016 | 0:22:12
Inspired by Margaret Duras’ play Agatha, juxtaposing images of humans
to those of animals, the film is a cinematic meditation on loss of
control. Built around three disparate scenes, it sets up a sense of
disorientation to heighten the possibility of inhabiting a different
perspective.
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PORTUGAL PREMIERE |
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Audacia del Tiempo |
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Marcela Alcade
Argentina
2017 | 0:03:07
All over Spain the remains of a building virus can be found.
Abandoned buildingsites, streets without houses and empty appartment
blocks that were never sold.
Meanwhile on a global scale the honey bee is disappearing.
Could there be a connection between the disappearance of our most
important pollinator and this symbol of an infertile economic system?
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November 23 - December 3, 2017
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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