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The 16th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris

October 4th - 14th, 2018

cite universitaire
Maison du Portugal
Maison du Mexique
Main d'oeuvres
 Bibliotheque Francois Truffaut
 Bibliotheque Francois Truffaut



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International Competition
Cinema in Trangresion
# 2
Monday 8, october 2018 / 10 pm
Maison du Japon
Cité internationale universitaire de Paris

 

The Masters of Dreams

The Masters of Dreams

 

WORLD PREMIERE


George Welland

Great Britain
2018 | 00:09:00

July 16, 1969; Apollo 11 is launched - 24 years to the day of the first U.S nuclear bomb test. But when a conspiracist suggests the launch could be a broadcast distraction for a more controversial experiment we're not being told about, a tormented loner is abducted from his bomb-stricken apartment.

 

 

Detroit's Rivera

Detroit's Rivera

 

FRENCH PREMIERE


Julio Ramos

USA
2017 | 00:34:57

Documentary on Diego Rivera´s 1933 frescoes about Fordist production at the River Rouge Factory in Detroit, USA. The documentary is a montage based on archival film footage and printed materials documenting the labor conditions under industrial capitalism during the Great Depression. Animation of Frida Kahlo´s Detroit paintings provide an alternative, critical view of the ecological and social effects of industrial production and Fordism. Sound design and original music.

 

 

Natural Disasters

Natural Disasters

 

PARIS PREMIERE


Antti Polojarvi

Finland
2017 | 00:06:50

Hateful comments lead a small group of people to quit their YouTube channels. Meanwhile, waves beat endlessly on the rocks of the Baltic Sea shore. Film about existing and exiting.

 

 

Transient

Transient

 

WORLD PREMIERE


Dee Hood

USA
2018 | 00:03:20

We are all transients, just passing through. A glimpse of bone memory or sensing the familiarity of now reminds us of our connection to all things past and present.

 

 

Nou

Nou

 

EUROPE PREMIERE


Jane Topping

Great Britain
2018 | 00:18:00

Nou is the new video work by Jane Topping. Inspired by Scottish socialist writer Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewoman, nou is a tale of space travel, hypnosis and transformation – across time and space, from an alien world to a dentist's chair in Glasgow, 1981. nou is the sequel to Peter (2014), which won Best PKD Short Film at the Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival, New York, 2017. Both videos use a recording of the artist as a child, being hypnotised by her dentist, as a tool to move through time, speculating new futures while conflating human and non-human bodies.

 

 

Voice
Koe

Voice

 

PARIS PREMIERE


Takeshi Kushida

Japan
2018 | 00:10:00

A lonely man falls in love with a shadow of woman appeared on the apartment's wall.

 

 

Rupture

Rupture

 

EUROPE PREMIERE


Kent Tate

Canada
2018 | 00:10:00

By and large humans tend to create narratives about themselves, then often make great effort to conform reality to that narrative. This was not a threat to planetary survival 10,000 years ago when we were scattered in small bands worshipping local deities and relying on nearby gathered foodstuffs with only stone tools. It is quite an other thing when we are packed into mega-cities with nuclear weapons, and ambiguous connectivities, along with relationships imbued in instruments that far exceed an individual's capacity to fully comprehend or to realibly navigate our various systems.

 



4 - 14 october 2018

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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