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Documentary Art
Classic
Out of Competition
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Wednesday March 31th, 2010 / 10 pm
Maison du Brésil
Paris
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500 Souls |
500 Almas |
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Joel Pizzini
Brazil
2004 / 35 mm / 1:43:00
“500 Almas”, first Joel Pizzini’s long-length documentary, discusses the delicate process of the memory’s reconstruction and the identity of the Guató indians. In a census carried through for the Empire in 19th century, the tribe of the Pantanal added about “500 souls”. Today, the number of guatós remains more or less the same, but many of them are acculturated, living in the periphery of the pentane-cities, and there are not even 30 of them that still speak the native tribe’s language. “500 Almas” contains depositions, images, bibliographical material and even though a dictionary of the language guató, and shows how art could become a way to combat the war. |
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Chaos Communikation Camp |
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Kirian Scheuplein
Germany
2007 / DV / 0:53:00
To understand how manipulation, control, observation and knowledge distribution on a global level really works, how communication systems are settled and information control takes place, and finally how you can have still a possibility of auto defence and transformation, you have to be an expert in informatics or a hacker. Now imagine that the best of them come together one time to share their knowledge and "open the spaces" in a workshop and speeches during some days and to have a party together. This kind of new Woodstock 2007 happens near to Berlin. Kirian Scheuplein's documentary let us come inside this group of scientific and technological luminaries and those, who are able to act "in another way".
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Cosmic Station |
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Bettina Timm
Germany
2008 / DV / 0:30:00
In 1943 a cosmic ray research station was set up on the top of Mount Aragaz in Armenia. During the 1980s the team of scientists here embarked upon an ambitious research project which, due to the collapse of the Soviet Union, was never completed. Today the vast and considerably run-down complex located at an altitude of 3,500 metres is home to only six people, including two women who clean and cook for the group. This intimate and sensitive film uses long shots and masterful compositions to capture the total isolation of this surviving relic of the Soviet space programme. |
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March 29th - April 11th 2010
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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