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The 15th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Lisbonne
23 November - 3 December, 2017
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Synthox / Son - Image - Interferences |
Sunday, November 26, 2017 / 5 pm
Universidade de Lisboa
Lisbonne |
Death and the Maiden |
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Matthieu Di Stefano
France
2016 / 0:05.45
Coré, a young woman, is asleep. She wakes up to find a bright and
strange sphere flying besides her. Magic happens, seduction operates
instantaneously and the sphere grows stronger, rhythm gets faster and
the light gets brighter. Mesmerized by the sphere and the relationship
both developed with each other, Coré is gradually letting herself go
and suck towards an unknown destination.
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PORTUGAL PREMIERE |
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Wild |
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Adrien Ouaki
France
2017 / 0:13:22
During a questioning a man tells us his story and the events that
brought him here.
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Iridescence |
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Eileen Byrne
Luxembourg
2017 / 0:05:30
After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015, élodie turned her
suffering and fears into a creative fight against the disease and the
debilitating effects of the treatments used. Her latest work,
Iridescence, is the personal story of her fight with cancer and the
way she found to deal with the disease in a creative and hopeful
manner. It's also a way of giving back and handing on the positive
vibes that she's received from friends, family and strangers during
the course of her disease.
‘There are many of us (patients, friends or family) fighting cancer
with creativity. Composing, drawing, painting, writing, body art-ing
etc., to prevent it from stealing our souls. So let’s share ideas and
creations in order to inspire people around us, who in turn will
inspire others.
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Why are You here? |
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Will Sankhla
USA
2017 / 0:04:07
An abstract exploration of the human toll of the refugee crisis.
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Skilando |
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Kriss Salmanis
Japan
2016 / 00:16:39
A tired monster sets off on a journey through an abandoned hotel.
Built as a ski resort, Skiland is now a crumbling trout farm and a
hotel in the hills of Japan inhabited by the couple who own it. The
film mixes a documentary look at the building with the traditional
puppet art bunraku.
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PREMIERE FRANCAISE |
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Sigint |
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Phil Hastings
USA
2016 / 0:04:48
Signal Intelligence - the act of collecting/intercepting information.
SIGINT takes an interstellar journey using the microscopic image as
proxy for other worlds. What information is out there that can be
collected from beyond our world? |
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Teaser |
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Hadien Don Fayel
France
2016 / 0:25:00
"Teaser" is developed around an impressionistic approach. A character
sees his reality disrupted by hearing problems and film ideas that
emerge chaotically. His perceptions build and merge to become a single
reality.
* "Teaser" est construit dans une approche impressionniste. Un
personnage voit sa réalité chahutée par des troubles auditifs et des
idées de films surgissant anarchiquement. Ses perceptions
s’additionnent et se confondent jusqu’à devenir une seule réalité. |
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Nutag-Homeland |
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Alisi Telengut
Canada
2016 / 0:06:00
A non-narrative hand-painted visual poem about ideas of diaspora,
homeland, and the tragic mass-deportations of the Kalmyk people during
WWII.
A visual poem and surrealist requiem for the Kalmyk people that were
mass-deported by USSR from 1943-1957 and half of them died before they
were allowed to return home. The film manifests itself as an archetype
with frame by frame hand painted imagery, bringing back an example of
human history on the eternal theme of diaspora and the loss of
homeland, but more importantly, by referencing to the past and the
lost, it poses a critical resistance to the current social political
situations in the world.
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Font Magica |
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Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof
Canada
2015 / 0:06:00
A memory trace of a unique moment near Montjuïc in Barcelona rendered
palpable. Music for Font Màgica was composed by Colin Clark,
Toronto-based composer and software developer, with the original piano
composition by Fryderyk Chopin, Prelude Op. 28, No. 15 “Raindrop,” and
sounds courtesy of Stanford Solar Center (Sun sounds) and of NASA,
Cassini-Huygens mission (radio emissions from Saturn). |
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Brutes are afraid of silence |
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Étienne Boulanger
Canada
2016 / 0:04:45
On a strip of land between two waters, a drummer spreads his rhythm in
front of the immense landscape. The popping beats resound through the
fjord. The echo resonates between heaven and earth and reaches a group
of rowers energetically training on their rowing. Deploying a sublime
collective effort larger than life, they try to get the maximum power
from their hi-tech craft. |
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23 November - 3 December, 2017
The "Synthox"section is reserved for works which create in a fantastic and innovativ way interferences between sounds and images.
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