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International Competiton
(Experimental) Documentary
No. 15 |
Saturday September 20th, 2014 / 7 pm
Institut finlandais / Paris
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The White Goddess |
A Deusa Branca |
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Alfeu França
Brazil
2013 | 00:31:00
The Brazilian artist, engineer, and architect Flávio de Carvalho (1899–1973) repeatedly attracted attention with provocative actions. In 1931, with his head covered, he approached a Corpus Christi procession; in 1956 he walked though São Paulo wearing a skirt. A newspaper report about a white woman abducted by Indios in the Amazon gave him the idea for his first feature film in the late 1950s. The documentary film presents original film footage of the artist’s journey into the Amazon with his film crew. The filmed footage remained in cans for decades and never took shape during his lifetime.
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Body of God |
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Jouni Hokkanença
Finland
2013 | 01:08:00
Letting something under your skin isn’t always a bad thing. According to Fakir Musafar, 83, it develops character. He got to know the secrets of piercing in his childhood basement. Now his human tests, stretching the boundaries of normality – and skin – come up to the big screen. He devoted his life to the ways of physical and spiritual modifications. Besides needles, his uses corsets, beds of nails, and meditation. The veterans of the field delve into what body modification is truly about.
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September 15- 21, 2014
An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. We prefer documentaries which succeed in representing the complexity of reality and discover in a new way its sensible and perturbing aspects on the same time accentuating the ambivalent and enigmatic status of reality in avoiding sterotypes and simplifing conclusions.
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