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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
# 9
Friday 9th April 2010 / 6 pm
Maison Heinrich Heine
Paris


Rebeca
 
Sundown


Gonzalo H. Rodriguez
Perú, Germany
2009 | DV | 0:23:00

In Lima, at the beginning of 1993, decided Rebeca to walk over the highway next to her house but her ramble was interrupted all of the sudden. This woman was the Rodríguez's grandmother. Her death is the main motive to make this film, which wants to find a way to bring up a very painful familiar event. How can cinema mediate painfully memories? What kind of truth emerge by the means of radical subjectivity?

 

 


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First Day of Winter
Primer diá de invierno  
Primer diá de invierno


José Luis Torres Leiva
Chile
2010 | DV | 0:18 :00

Juan and is 3-month old daughter travel to the city for a medical appointment. Taking advantage of the trip, the young man visits his sister where he reveals an important secret to her.

 

 

 


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Lot 22, Concession 5
 
Lot 22, Concession 5


Penny McCann
Canada
2009 | Digi Beta | 0 :04 :00

Hand-processed 16mm film imagery, tinted, toned, and transformed, is combined with memory fragments of a rural past, to create a visual poem about place and time. Filmed at Canadian fillmaker Philip Hoffman's Independent Imaging Retreat (aka the Film Farm) in Mount Forest, Ontario, in 2008. Sound design by Edmund Eagan.

 

 

 


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Where Does She Come From? What is She? Where Is She Going?
 

Where Does She Come From? What is She? Where Is She Going?


Degena Yun
China
2009 | Digi Beta | 0:13:30

Inspired by Sophie Calle and Abbas Kiarostami. This is a documentary shot in 2009, in northern China. It discovered peoples thoughts on a suicide note. Chinese soldier, driver, student, actor, camel drover, guitar player, cooks ,etc. All varied kinds of people were interviewed and shared their thinking of life and death. A minimalistic style of work which to explore the sence of isolation and alienation in our communication.

 

 


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Accordion of Light
 

Accordion of Light


Michelle Lippitt
Italy, Poland, United States
2009 | Digi Beta | 0 :20 :00

Inspired by magical encounters in the cities of Torino and Warsaw, Accordion of Light shapes a holographic world of love and memory. The work resists narrative interpretation by juxtaposing seemingly disparate images and sounds to create new meaning. It is an exploration of our internal worlds, and speaks to the need in all of us to define, quantify, and measure where we begin and where we end.

 

 

 


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Natural History
 
Natural History


Luisa Greenfield
Germany, United States
2009 | HD | 0:20:00

Sound and image hold equal weight. Shifting from constructed urban sites to composed natural environments, to dioramas of both, the video creates a disorienting set of overlapping realities. With video footage shot and edited in Berlin, the work also includes field recordings, found sounds and electronics, gathered and produced in Los Angeles.


 


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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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