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The 8th International Festival
Signes de Nuit
Paris

March 29th - April 11th 2010

Cinéma Archipel
Centre Culturel Irlandais
Goethe Institut
Maison de l'amerique Latine
Maison de l'Europe
Mairie de Paris
cite universitaire
Fondation Suisse
Maison Heinrich Heine
Maison de Brésil
 

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International Competition
Short Film
# 1
Monday April 5th, 2010 / 12 pm
Cinéma Archipel
Paris


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Striped  
Striped


Toon Mertens, Jonas Baeckeland
Belgium
2008 | Beta digi | 0:22:00

In a city with a cultural mix of nationalities, age and gender, eight complete strangers all have one thing in common: they feel trapped in their own city and in their own lives. A sprinkle of hope enters when an escaped zebra runs free in the city. .. A story about liberty, compassion and hope in modern times of troublesome existential thought.




 


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Absent
 
Absent


Guillermo Asensio Alegre
Spain
2009 | 35 mm | 0:10:00

Anna’s biological clock is ticking. The countdown has begun.


 

 


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Long for the City
 
Long for the City


Jem Cohen
USA
2008 | Beta SP | 0:09:10

Long for the City is a short portrait of Patti Smith in the city where she lives. Patti recites the very first poem-song she ever wrote, and then a later one, "Prayer", from the early 1970s. We take a walk in her changing neighborhood, and I ask her what she saw. Footage was shot in the moment, as well as drawn from the archive I`ve gathered over many years. Long for the City can be considered a non-musical companion piece to the music short, Spirit, which we collablorated on in 2007. It had its premier as an installation in Patti Smith`s show, Land 250, and Fondation Cartier in Paris.



 


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The Dead Man
El Hombre Muerto  
El Hombre Muerto


Julián Goyoaga, German Tejeira
Uruguay
2009 | DV | 0:10:00

A rural worker has an accident and realises that within minutes he will be dead. During these last moments, absolutely alone and surrounded by the natural environment indifferent to tragedy he faces the fact that there is nothing he could do to change his fate. Based on the short story by the Uruguayan writer Horacuio Quiroga.

 

 


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The Unnamed
Di Yi Ming Zhi De Shi Wu  
Di Yi Ming Zhi De Shi Wu


Ya-Li Huang
Taiwan
2010 | 35 mm | 0:10:50

A visual poetry playing with the interference of what you hear and what you see, and a sensual fluidity not based on cause and effect relationship.

 

 


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Between Dreams
 
Between Dreams


Iris Olsson
Finlande
2009 | HD | 0:10:30

A third class sleeping car of the Trans-Siberian train traveling through Russia. What are the passengers dreaming of, and which of the dreams come true? A short documentary completely realized on the journey between Moscow and Vladivostok.

 



 


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Venus vs Me
 
Venus vs Me


Nathalie Teirlinck
Belgium
2009 | HDCAM | 0:27:00

Marie is twelve, a little bit airy-fairy, and has problems putting her childhood behind her. Ever since her young mother brought home a new boyfriend, Marie’s questions have gone unanswered and communication would seem to be impossible. Marie desperately tries to win back her mother for herself, at the same time seeking comfort in the world of her memories.

 



 


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March 29th - April 11th 2010

 An international jury overview the sections of short films coming from all over the world. The festival prefers film treating important subjects in an original way, films which don't avoid ambiguity and complexity, films, which are sometimes stay enigmatic, so that refection and mind are going on moving, exceptional films, which covers all kind of artistically expressions, films open for esthetical innovation, shortly films reflecting the perturbing strangeness of the modern world in a complex way.


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