9th Festival Signes de Nuit 2011

Fabio Grassadonia, Antinio Piazza
Italy
2009 | Digital | 0:18:00

Rita is born blind. She almost lives in captive, under the cutting of a dictatorial mother who maintains her in a cocoon. Until a beautiful day, a runaway young man gives her a front taste about what the freedom is.

Link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDzepRojy9I&feature=player_ (extrait)

http://www.arte.tv/fr/4020404,CmC=4020550.html (interview)

The dance of the quail. First movement (La danza de la codorniz. Primer movimiento)	+ Infos

Chus Dominguez, Elena Cordoba
Spain
2010 | Digital | 0:07:00

In the film by Jean Luc Godard’s “Vivre sa vie” Elena Córdoba, choreographer and dancer, heard a small dialog that talked about the nature of chickens and soul. From that text arose the idea of reviving the body of a quail ready to be cooked, and, following Godard, finding in it the soul of the dancer posthumously.

Avenue of France (Avenue de France)	+ Infos

Didier Blasco
France
2010 | Digital | 0:10:30

Kamal, dressed in jeans, in a jacket of black leather and wearing a beard of four days, walks quietly in the street to get sleep his baby. Checked by the police, he finds itself accused of having stolen his own child....

Extrem sense of Void	+ Infos

Ulu Braun, Teuri Haarla
Germany
2009 | Digital | 0:14:20

‘How could you make a difference from “normal” states of mind without an intentional, temporary loss of mind? A body starts to tremble and shake uncontrollably and surrenders to an ecstatic trance. For only a short time, I can be in it.’

Link:

http://www.av-arkki.fi/en/works/extreme-sense-of-void_en/ (extrait)

Shade of Grey	+ Infos

Danijl Pavlovickam
Bosnia-Herzegovina
2010 | Digital | 0:13:00

While looking at pictures from a time when he was rather miserable, the filmmaker remarks how nice it all looked, and lets the old home movies convince him that maybe he was actually happy back then.

For Home Viewing	+ Infos

Mikhail Zheleznikov
Russia
2009 | Digital | 0:30:00

Just of the Ocean	+ Infos

Wim Jongedijk
Netherlands
2010 | Digital | 0:06:30

FISDN 2011 : Night Projections

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From Midnight to the morning October 7th/8th and 8th/9th

A selection of strange, complex, enigmatic, mysterious, independent, revolting movies, works without limits, examples of the audiovisual culture of the emerging world.