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Le 16e Festival International
Signes de Nuit
Paris
4 - 14 octobre, 2018
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AWARD CELEBRATION
Cinema in trangression
The 16th International Festival Signes de Nuit
4 - 14 october 2018, Paris
Thursday 11, October, 2018 / 6 pm
Maison de Norvège
Cité internationale
universitaire de Paris
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Cinema in Transgression Competition
Main Award
Making and Unmaking of the Earth
Jessica Bardsley
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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. |
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Jury Statement :
The jury awards the main prize to "Making and Unmaking of the Earth", in
which Jessica Bardsley constructs a surprising combination of scientific
and educational material with very personal images, featuring interview
audio sequences to express deep emotions and physical pain that lead to
universal questions.
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Directors Statement :
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Main Award Special Mentions
Death of the Soundman
Awasarn Sound Manr
Sorayos Prapapan
To find the Day of 21st
Kieko Ikehata |
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PARIS PREMIERE
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Death of the Soundman
Awasarn Sound Manr
Sorayos Prapapan
Thailand
2017 | 00:16:00
Voices of people are often neglected, just as sound in film – the
audience don’t care. Two sound recordists are working on final mix of
a short film. Will their sound be heard by someone?
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Jury Statement :
A special mention goes to “Death of the Soundman” who shows in a highly
ironic and entertaining way the slow extinction and the problem of sound
makers in a world flooded with digital soundscapes.
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FRENCH PREMIERE
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To find the Day of 21st
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.
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Jury Statement :
The SPECIAL MENTION goes to To find the day of 21st by Kieko Ikehata
For researching the way how to explore some of the most common
phenomenons of human condition - memory and time.
Tragedy and confusion tends to mix through these conditions, that's
why we encourage the director to continue this endless study and
realize it in cinematographic results.
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Director Statement :
It is a great honor for me that being selected as a special award at
such a meaningful film festival. Thank you very much!
This work is the culmination of the tasks that I have been working on
for several years. I want to show someone "Home Videos (my growth was
recorded)" my mother kept shooting. Started with such feelings, I have
worked with my mother.
Last year, I bore my daughter and became a mother. Right now I am
making new works while recording my daughter's growth. I would be
happy if I could join this festival again!
Kieko IKEHATA
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Cinema in Transgression Competition
Signs Award
Nowhere
Neli Ruzic |
| The Signs Award honors films, which treat an important subject in an
original, convincing and surprising way.
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INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
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Nowhere
Neli Ruzic
Croatia
2017 | 00:17:34
The experimental film NOWHERE poetically explores the personal
experience of departure/return and rebuilding identities. Dramaturgy
consists of two backbones - a scene portraying a sculpture "Before the
dawn" by Neli Ruži? and the monument of Bogdan Bogdanovi? "The
Guardian of Freedom", both of which were set up at the Klis fortress
during the different moments in history, given up to entropy and
social changes. The conditions in which these sculptures have been
found activate the archeology of time, invisible and erased history.
The film intends to use narration and visuals to depict the
interweaving of personal, autobiographical and historical situations,
individual and collective memories, but also the concept of identity
as an unstable structure. |
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Jury Statement :
The Signs Award goes to “Nowhere” for artist Neli Ruzic´s simultaneously
harsh and discursive artistic documentation about disappointed and lost
hopes after the separation of Croatia from Yugoslavia and the resulting
emigration of artists whose works were once symbols of the new country but
have long been forgotten and have fallen victims to destruction.
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Director Statement :
"Dear Dieter Wieczorek and
dear members of International Jury
I am very happy that my film NowHere was honored byThe Sign Award and
also very content about the statement of International Jury because it
is very precise and close to what I tried to transmite with this film.
My artistic work deals with representation of history and construction
of personal and collective memory, the possibility of their mutual
reading through the spectrum of post-war erasure periods, collective
amnesia and experiences of migration. How does the negation of part of
one's own history (and thus the context of life stories) manifest in
the construction of identity?
As you already know, NowHere deals with erased and invisible histories
observed through this two sculptures on Fortress Klis: my sculpture
Before dawn which was temporary placed but stayed there for twenty
years and Bogdan Bogdanovi?´s sculpture - the monument to fallen
partisan soldiers The Guardian of Freedom which was removed in 1996,
just eight years after it has been permanently installed. The absurd
situation of these two sculptures, one temporarily placed, forgotten
and found, and other permanently installed and dismantled, opens up
space for observing the paradox of time. The relationship of these two
sculptures and the non-linear time flow is emphasize with mirrors
interventions through visual and textual quotations of Robert
Smithson’s Yucatan "Mirror Displacements" series. In addition to the
concept of place-non place, the idea of ruin (absorbing cultural forms
by nature) invokes the concept of entropy and above all, the
spatialisation of time, all of them topics Smithson was interested in,
too. The film is autoreferencial, but also kind of dialogue with other
two artists, Bogdanovi? and Smithson who also have some connections in
their works.
The pieces of my sculpture Before dawn, I found placed aside or almost
subsided into the grass. The sculpture was made on the island of Šolta
in the summer of 1995 and consists of seventy 40 x 40 cm concrete
plaques with handprints in the center. The palms are facing upward. In
each of the plaques, the hands were imprinted by a different person.
The work was exhibited at several exhibitions between 1995 and 1996
and finally in September 1996. at the Exhibition of Sculptures on
Fortress Klis. Due to the lack of organizer of the exhibition, the
sculpture was abandoned but I did not insist on that either. For me
the most important was the process in which were involved about 70
people, the communion and manifestations of the collective body, and
not so much materiality of the sculpture. Yet, after I found it
abandoned on my return from Mexico where I lived for thirteen years,
my interest for this work has been renewed. Like a material witness,
its current state helps me to understand the time I was not here.
Time overlaps: the history context of the nineties in contemporary
moment and the personal displacements, social and autobiographical is
the core of this film."
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Director Statement :
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Cinema in Transgression Competition
Night Award
From the Dark Dephts
Gikan sa Ngitngit nga Kinailadman
Kiri Dalena
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| The Night Award honors films, which are able to balance ambiguity and
complexity characterised by enigmatic mysteriousness and subtleness,
which keeps mind and consideration moving. |
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FRENCH PREMIERE
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From the Dark Dephts
Gikan sa Ngitngit nga Kinailadman
Kiri Dalena
Philippinnes
2017 | 00:27:00
A woman mourns the drowning of a young communist revolutionary that
took place years ago. She sinks into herself and recreates a story
that coalesces memory, delirium, and forgetting.
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Jury Statement :
The Night Award goes to Kiri Dalena for her poetic film essay, which
confronts an extraordinary underwater performance with the real lives of
the remaining fighters of the Philippine revolutionary movement and their
inhuman living conditions in a country where political conditions tend to
get worse and worse.
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Cinema in Transgression Competition
Edward Snowden Award
No wall is ever silent
Annelore Schneider, Claude Piguet |
| The Edward Snowden Award honors films, which offer sensible (mostly)
unknown informations, facts and phenomenons of eminent importance, for
which the festival wishes a wide proliferation in the future. |
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PARIS PREMIERE
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No wall is ever silent
Annelore Schneider, Claude Piguet
Switzerland
2017 | 00:12:20
The building, a former bank, holds the leading role, whilst voices of
professionals with a unique perspective on the space encourage us to
observe hidden details. Through their eyes, we explore how built
environment can be misused, as if every building was a spatial puzzle
waiting to be solved.
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Jury Statement :
At first glance, "No wall is ever silent" seems to have nothing to do with
whistleblowing in its abstract visualization and comments, but if you
consider that the protagonist is a former Swiss private bank, you will
soon recall the unholy connection between money and politics.
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