22e Festival international Signes de Nuit - Paris / 4-13 Octobre 2024
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Phillip Barker |
Canada / 2023 / 0:16:16 |
Sean’s mission on Earth is to help humans live forever by eradicating useless states of emotion and instinct. However, confronted with "Earth’s pointless gravity", Sean’s body weakens. He seeks the help of a domesticated horse, who introduces him to poetry. Undaunted, he continues to collect samples from Earth: animals, worms, and the very children who have befriended him.
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Jury Declaration:
...for using the rules and language of conventional cinema but at the same time bending and deconstructing them. A film that plays with the viewers expectations where some sense might only be grasped if intuition is allowed some space to interpret. In stunning visuals, using a new, creative film idiom and with absurd humour it builds a fantastic, bizarre universe with its own rules - tilting the laws of physics in the same way it tilts the laws of story telling.
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SIGNS AWARD
The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject in an original and convincing way
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| Rhythm ´n blue |
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| Tanja Kristine Böhme |
| Germany / 2024 / 0:13:01 |
iA symphony of marine mammals in an artistic composition that takes up the rhythm and melody of various seals and whales and puts them together to form a SymphonAntArctic Orchestra. It is accompanied by an image orchestra of ice, water and whales. Both sound and video material are taken from scientific field research and find a new expression in artistic processing.
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Jury Declaration:
During an hypnotic flight over solid waters we are reminded of an immersed world by subtle calls from underneath, a marine mammal choir. A breakthrough reveals a shadow erupting from the depths, as the rhythmic dialogue continues. Through a creative use of scientistic footage and associative, semi-unconscious immagery, one is led to recognise the importance of the voice in the awareness of the existence of the other.
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NIGHT AWARD
The Night Award honors films, which are able to balance ambiguity and complexity characterized by enigmatic mysteriousness and subtleness, which keeps mind and consideration moving
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| The Stream XIII |
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| Hiroya Sakurai |
| Japan / 2023 / 0:05:21 |
In my "The Stream series", I have expressed the transformation of landscapes as a result of the interactions between humans and nature.? In "The Stream XIII", the 13th in the series, I focused on how the landscape is transformed when the wind as a weather phenomenon streams through the fields and reed fields cultivated by humans. For sound effects, I used the sound of a wind chime. A wind chime consists of a bell made of iron with a weight suspended by a string inside. When the wind blows, the weight rings inside by wind pressure. I used the wind chime to perceive the invisible presence of wind as sound. And also we can perceive the invisible presence of wind as visualized wind ripples in the fields. I expressed the invisible scenery through sound and images.
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Jury Declaration:
...for capturing the transformation of nature, through natural or human interventions, in a mesmerizing, meditative and visually stunning manner. The film is like balm for the eyes, ears and soul, combining the images of plants and fields, moved by the wind or worked by human hands, with hypnotic sounds of the wind chimes. A calming and soothing experience which provides the viewer with emotional and mental space to ponder on the change of seasons, and the connection between humans and nature.
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EDWARD SNOWDEN AWARD
The Edward Snowden Award honors films, which offer sensitive (mostly) unknown information, facts and phenomena of eminent importance, for which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future.
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| Cancer Alley |
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| Pamela Falkenberg, Jack Cochran |
| United States / 2023 / 0:08:58 |
Our newest collaboration with renowned poet Lucy English combines footage shot on location In Cancer Alley with images of nature, especially cypress groves, which are as fragile and as threatened as the Cancer Alley communities. The visuals are accompanied by a poem about what it is like to live in the small towns near the Mississippi River, between East Baton Rouge and New Orleans, which are now dominated by more than 200 chemical plants and oil refineries, sometimes literally located in residents' back yards. The cypress trees can live for more than 1000 years, if they are not chopped down for cypress mulch or their habitat destroyed. Human lifespans are much shorter, but we may not survive as a species unless we stop living as if all that matters is today, and learn to think on the time scale of the trees.
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Jury Declaration:
The short documentary-like movie contrasts - using classical split-screen technic - footage of a dystopic overcrowded petrol chemistry in a Mississippi area in Louisiana with images of the forest nature region around. Leading by the lyrics of a poem as its only comment. Between Baton Rouge and New Orleans 150 petrochemical plants and oil refineries are settled - polluting air, water and ground. As a fact cancer diseases here are significant higher-frequently than average. “Cancer Alley” is a startling document of the reckless and ruthlessly capitalistic greed and its deadly consequences. Or as the poem asks: “If we are aware why do we nothing?”
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