P'Silo

#01
4mn25   color   stereo   2003   France
by David-Olivier Ribault

The cinematographic phenomenon can be envisaged like a screen where the luminous sequences follow on carried by a sound linking and unlinking to the movements of the images. "#01" is a tentative of radical and clinical paring of the cinematographic phenomenon, a drama where lights and sounds remind us of life.

ref : E1001

15 rsm "really short movies"
28mn   color   stereo   2003   France
by Pascale Marconnet

Little experiences with time, instances of "on edge", variations on sound, language and emotions.

ref : E1002

A girl in motion, a motionless Girl
2mn30   color   stereo   2004   Russia
by Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov

A small girl performs in an armchair.

ref : E1003
[ selection 2005 / pr. sense ]

a surplus of landscape
8mn52   color   stereo   2004   USA
by Ellen Zweig

A collage of landscape; an interview with filmaker, Leslie Thorton, while she is hooked up to a lie detector; a dance in a red dress. Landscapes in places as various as China, France, California. There aree so many images of landscape. Why would anyone travel when we can travel in our imaginations? Digital video cut with Super-8 and 16mm film.

ref : E1004
[ selection 2005 / pr. perception ]

Alone, Apart: The Dream Reveals the Waking Day
7mn   color & b/w   stereo   2004   USA
by Mark Street

An hommage to the two ramshackle cities, made up of footage shot while wandering. I meander city streets with a camera, looking to be haunted by unfamiliar vistas. I find solace in the forgotten landscapes, odd voices on a ham radio, shimmering water in a desolate harbor. Later I attack the film, moving it this way and that, trying to squeeze it against its will, wrest strangeness from the everyday.

ref : E1005
[ selection 2005 / pr. perception ]

Ars gratia artis
9mn   color   mono   2004   France
by Samuel Bester

Poetry of "M2" transformed in moving images.

ref : E1006
[ selection 2005 / pr. perception ]

Bon Boyeur
5mn   color   stereo   2004   Spain
by Iraida Lombardia

A short stop in a petrol station in Extremadura (Spain) becomes the main event in a trip from Lisbon to Madrid, where the traveller getsimmersed in a sinistre journey.

ref : E1007
[ selection 2005 / pr. space ]

c'est la nuit qui commence
7mn   color   stereo   2004   France
by Pierre Villemin & Jean Villemin

Memory. Whoever wishes it. We drag it around. Along with the rest. A cart, a tilting cart of miseries. Ashes. Clippings. Bodies. Older ones. Shadows of themselves. They are all there. We are dead so they say. Come. "C'est la nuit qui commence" talks, sings and watches. It is still a question of memory and the torments it provokes. Lacan said something like "the idea of death makes life bearable" and memory doesn't help things. And what if the past made life unbearable for us...

ref : E1008

Carnet de route. décembre 2003 - août 2004
9mn18   color   stereo   2004   Belgium
by Gaël Bentein

In December Joseph and I moved into our new house. In a dynamic editing reminiscent of the Bolshevik school, this fragment of my filmed diary, through the furtive moments of our lives such as work, discovery of our new landscape, friends marriages, holidays,...evoke, by the interpenetration of different mediums (photos, video and S8) a time which flows ineluctably, bringing changes of which the signs are visible everywhere.

ref : E1009

Cécilou... y es tu ?
3mn   color   stereo   2004   France
by Colas Ricard

Sequence shot of Cécilou, holding a dictaphone in the hands.

ref : E1010
[ selection 2005 / pr. time ]

Chat-musée, s'amuser
5mn   color   stereo   2004   France
by Carole Contant

The architecture and the contour of the animal bodies mew awfully to meet.

ref : E1011
[ selection 2005 / pr. time ]

Circumvisions
30mn   color   stereo   2005   Canada
by Emmanuel Avenel & Marie-France Giraudon

A circumpolar navigation between reality and illusion, the lived and the imaginary, becomes a strange odyssey in the wonderful world of mirages, in search of something beyond boundaries, horizons, infinity. This mythic journey reorients satellite imagery, radar telemetry and cartography into geographical incoherence and disruptions of the machinery. Here the perception of reality gives way to pure illusion.

ref : E1012
[ selection 2005 / pr. space ]

Conductor
2mn   b/w   stereo   2004   Belgium
by Anouk de Clercq

A lightning conductor appears as a musical conductor for the cloud cover. At the core of an increasingly threatening blaze of fire and a whistling wind, a minuscule light has final call, until the violence of heaven discharges abruptly and the lightning conductor throws it all off-screen. This video was made in the framework of title safe II, as a project by walter verdin in which he invites artists to make a short video with 125bpm as a rhythmic rule.

ref : E1013

Considering David and Goliath
8mn40   color   mono   2005   USA
by Kara Hearn

This video explores the unglamorous and tedious, yet beautiful side of tackling the big things in one’s life (fear, unhappiness, dissatisfaction) with consistency, presence of mind, and faith.

ref : E1014
[ selection 2005 / pr. time ]

Crossings
5mn10   color   stereo   2004   Netherlands
by Marina Chernikova

Three voyages, three cities, Moscow, Rome, Tokyo. Different forms, different spaces. Reflecting, crossing each other in my eyes and in my memory. They form yet another space, the space of memories, memories of voyages, of voyages into the space of memories of these cities, into the space of reflections and crossings.

ref : E1015
[ selection 2005 / pr. movement ]

Desire-1#
19mn30   color   stereo   2004   China
by Zhou Hongxiang

"Life is a long series of desire. Their enumeration is lancing, either general either particular, is waved like a lullaby."

ref : E2016

Dies Irae
10mn   color   stereo   2004   France
by Jean-Gabriel Périot

Remember, That I am the cause of your journey Don't leave me on that day.

ref : E2017
[ selection 2005 / pr. movement ]

Digue Morand
5mn   color   stereo   2003   France
by France Dubois

A scene at the sea.

ref : E2018
[ selection 2005 / pr. space ]

Elle et le loup
7mn   color   stereo   2004   France
by Jean-Paul Noguès

Lost in the dark forest of her desires, she’s wandering. The wolf came to eat her.

ref : E2019
[ selection 2005 / pr. perception ]

Escape
6mn   color & b/w   stereo   2004   France
by Benoit Martin

"Escape" deals with escape and flight. Flee the narration, escape from the traditionnal language's jail, a film about the unconscious freedom.

ref : E2020
[ selection 2005 / pr. movement ]

Extracorpus
9mn30   color   stereo   2004   France
by Augustin Gimel

Giving birth to a new Body. Insufflating life and movement into paintings. A Body composed of thousands bodies. A Body freed from materiality and gravity. A Body with infinite possibilities.

ref : E2021
[ selection 2005 / pr. movement ]

Floodland
10mn44   color & b/w   stereo   2004   France
by Elie Barrau

This is the tale of an uncharted land which is never in the same place twice. Lost in the sea, Floodland is an emerging, shamelessly, decadent area, constantly adrift. Viral and animal, accidentally damaged by the flows, Floodland fells the need to dive, to emerge, to get away. Automatic growth, internal engines are working below the water level. So far or so close, we never see Floodland. Some people says they went there,some celebrities use to spend a few time under the channel and sometimes the fun starts 30,000 feet underneath the sea.

ref : E2022
[ selection 2005 / pr. time ]

For Tokyo
13mn51   color   stereo   2004   France
by Jean-Marie Carrel

Somebody gets in Tokyo by tube. He is discovering different facets of the megalopolis before getting out. The original music, the lack of dialog and the editing make a kind of experimental, documentary and clip film mix.

ref : E2023
[ selection 2005 / pr. space ]

Genève
6mn   color   stereo   2004   France
by Augustin Gimel

Ritual sacrifice and oppression of individual by society.

ref : E2024
[ selection 2005 / pr. time ]

hydr(o)
3mn30   color   stereo   2003   Canada
by Jason Arsenault

"hydr(o)" is a digital drowning. This sequence lenght shot is taken from a video installation. This single-channel video exploits the feeling of anguish related to hydrophobia.

ref : E2025

I like to think (right now, please!
8mn   color   stereo   2004   France
by delphine Hallis

Image for a instant a cybernetic ecology, where mammals and computers become inseparable, "live side by side in perfect harmony". This projection, which a part of a poem by Richard Brautigan, served as an impulsion to the film: the animal world encounters a virtual universe, into which it ends up melting into an indistinguishable, unique matter. Real images are deformed into futurist visions. Animal cries marry into electronic sounds. The poets voice accompanies us in this synthesised nature, produced by a waking dream in an electronic country.

ref : E2026

Images du monde - monde d'images
10mn54   b/w   stereo   2004   France
by Pascal Marquilly

Some pictures of the world ; a girl running away under attack, tanks on the road, rush of people… World of pictures… Pictures are passing and mixing each others, on black and white, doing echo of gilles Deleuze’s voice from a congress gave at La Femis in 1987 : "What is a créating act ?". This vidéo result from a way of thinking and performances about trans-disciplinarities called Urgence(s), preoccupied by the question : what is the place of an artist in the community ?

ref : E2027
[ selection 2005 / pr. sense ]

Infra-ordinaire
3mn   color   stereo   2004   France
by Michaël Haudant

When a memory evokes absence, the images transform into an inform mass... the face forgets, dumb. The truth escapes.

ref : E2028

je suis entré par la porte du salon
3mn10   color   stereo   2005   France
by Boris Du Boullay

I went by the living room's door. When I grow up, I will also talk

ref : E2029
[ selection 2005 / pr. perception ]

Korida
5mn20   color   mono   2003   France
by Frédéric Faillon

In the heart of the bull fight, imaginary perceptions, duality faced with death. The animal and the being of light, fascination and stupour re-visited by the computer.

ref : E2030

Kuroer
3mn   color   stereo   2003   Canada
by Ariane De Blois

Fragmented and deconstructed work built from memento video sequence.

ref : E2031

L'eau de là
3mn18   color & b/w   mono   2003   France
by Houssam Harfouche

A man wanders in park, on a rainy day.

ref : E2032
[ selection 2005 / pr. time ]

La Nuit
17mn05   color   stereo   2004   Belgium
by Catherine Menoury

The Night - is it really that dark ? Or is the Night the victim of our inability to see through it? Are our nights restless, nightmarish because we are afraid of not seeing or is it fear that obscures our senses? To be in the Night and to see, to fear because we see, turning back, wavering, to reflect upon one's own existence, to leave or to keep going. Keep going because the circle is not complete. Unless the circle spirals and so can never lead to an end, but becomes and always grows. We are deaf and blind, we can see at night, we are clairvoyant. We are dead and we are alive. The Night - is it black, luminous or white ?

ref : E2033
[ selection 2005 / pr. time ]

Labomatic
5mn   color & b/w   stereo   2004   France
by Carole Contant & Colas Ricard

The car-wash evokes in our active memories, wheels of artisan labs.

ref : E2034

Le corps sublime, espace critique
29mn30   color   stereo   2004   France
by Pascal Marquilly

Pictures are following up on a frenetic and cutting edit carring us away. And, we are following flows passing through the city. Absolute city, body-city…

ref : E3035
[ selection 2005 / pr. sense ]

Le petit film sonore
2mn56   color   stereo   2004   France
by Pierrick Servais

Because what is in a continuous loop never dies.

ref : E3036

Le postulat d’Euclide
10mn   b/w   stereo   2004   France
by Augustin Gimel

Spatial and temporal development of forms through birth, growth and extinction. Elementary figures combining to create a complex figure. Geometry as a metaphor. Frame as a territory.

ref : E3037
[ selection 2005 / pr. movement ]

Le sang
12mn26   color   stereo   2004   France
by Francis Brou

Third part of a tryptique : "Tu me fais de l’ombre / L’homme-sac / Le sang". The bag man is "pomnivore".

ref : E3038
[ selection 2005 / pr. perception ]

Les yeux suspendus
14mn50   color   stereo   2004   France
by Jérôme Martin & Jean-Sébastien Martin & Régis Gonzalez

An abattoir in France. Men, animals, machines. Blood, water. The difficulty of keeping ones eyes open...

ref : E3039

ME+
5mn25   b/w   stereo   2004   Belgium
by Anouk de Clercq

A selfportrait in motion graphics with sounddesign by Anton Aeki, text written and whispered by Anouk de Clercq.

ref : E3040

Mini-kino
3mn   b/w   stereo   2004   France
by Colas Ricard

"The cinema turns well in circles." HB

ref : E3041

Monsieur soleil
4mn   b/w   stereo   2004   France
by Carole Contant

The sun of my cold nights is hidden over here. Love, Hazard and Cinema.

ref : E3042

More Good Products
0mn30   color & b/w   stereo   2003   Russia
by Galina Myznikova & Sergey Provorov

People have invented many kinds of household equipment. Some of it heats up, some cools down. Sometimes it comes to the point of absurdity.

ref : E3043
[ selection 2005 / pr. sense ]

Mouvement
3mn08   color   stereo   2005   France
by Antoine Péluquère

Movement, movements ? one's regard of oneself; is not happiness only the unique movement amidst the tumult.

ref : E3044

Mur de chair
16mn40   color & b/w   stereo   2004   France
by Thomas Ducroux

A man sleeps, dreams of sky, of space, but wakes amongst walls. Closed in, he goes out and discovers an "epidermic world" of walls and floors, which like his proper skin, suffer the aggression of of the town. Crisis...

ref : E3045

Neptune's release: shot in the dark
17mn   color & b/w   mono   2004   USA
by Joell Hallowell & Jacaly White

A humorous and devastating found-footage extravaganza where mixed-messages of salvation meet media memories, complete with 50s adertisements, spiritual audiotapes, obsolete medical films and a star-studded cast that included Janis Joplin, Thimothy Leary and Shirley MacLaine. Neptune’s Release : Shot in the dark is a study of chaos, order and unexpected juxtapositions.

ref : E3046

Omar khayyäm cinq variations
13mn   color & b/w   stereo   2004   France
by Loïc Djan

This film proposes an audio-visual translation of five poems by Omar Khayyâm. These quatrains (robâiyât) have the particularity of being short, spontaneous and direct. This form therefore encouraged me to search for the spontaneity and pertinence in the editing, to develop an apt rhythmic research in order to underline as much the sense as the musicality of these poetic proverbs.

ref : E3047

pieces of panawanica
5mn30   color   stereo   2004   Australia
by Scott Morrison

The video deals with the manipulation and abstraction of sound and image. By processing a visual and aural known experience, new environments can be found. Getting the most out of a moment, again, again and again.

ref : E3048
[ selection 2005 / pr. movement ]

Rien de rien
3mn   b/w   stereo   2004   France
by Colas Ricard

"They are light and rapidly disappear, in the air or often with the slightest contact." HB

ref : E3049

Rien que la Procession
4mn05   color   stereo   2004   France
by François Paris

First series of vidéos poetically joined, whose first frame is mainly centered on a light rumination of the forfeiture of the body and spirit. They invite us to one on another reality, that of an intuitive and shifted poetry, which scans our presence in the world.

ref : E3050
[ selection 2005 / pr. space ]

seiryoku zenyo II
1mn57   color   stereo   2004   Switzerland
by Chantal Romani

With strength and ease, in coordinated postures and sequences of movement, a woman demonstrates moments between movement and stillness, always concentrated on the instance.

ref : E3051
[ selection 2005 / pr. space ]

shirshasana
5mn11   color   stereo   2004   Switzerland
by Chantal Romani

In this position blood flows to the brain so that the mind becomes fresh and clear.

ref : E3052
[ selection 2005 / pr. sense ]

Sky is the limit
8mn   color   stereo   2005   Canada
by Mélanie Bédard

"Sky is the limit" main objective is to destabilize the viewer. Opening with a bird flight, as the strongest symbol of liberty, the projection will slowly shatter all natural order between s olid ground and the sky, in a terrorizing spectacle.

ref : E4053
[ selection 2005 / pr. space ]

Slow Force Glimpse
4mn   color & b/w   stereo   2004   USA
by Brook Hinton

A feverish reverie in which images glimpsed from a train window become lodged in a dream-like world of menace and beauty. This is the first in a planned series of works by Brook Hinton based on the concept of introjection - the uncounscious internalization of external phenomena. In psychology the term usually refers to the incorporation of external personalities or ideas (i.e., parental voices) into the personality : Hinton is more interested in the psychological impact of the things we encounter in passing.

ref : E4054
[ selection 2005 / pr. time ]

Sous le coup midi
10mn   color   stereo   2004   France
by Karine Pierre

In the hour that - the start - of a hawthorn opens to its beak, the stripped down hive - my rapid step - the sunflower unpacks his tablecloth on a buzzard neck.

ref : E4055

Stratégie, geste et signe
6mn   b/w   stereo   2004   France
by Pierre-Yves Cruaud

A political comedy showing the construction of a media stereotype and his somewhat suspect cordiality.

ref : E4056
[ selection 2005 / pr. movement ]

Strobe #1
2mn20   color   stereo   2005   France
by Patrice Rossignol-Gicquel

164 snapshots, random milestones of a nearly ordinary trip.

ref : E4057
[ selection 2005 / pr. movement ]

symphonique
2mn40   color   stereo   2004   Switzerland
by Chantal Romani

Rendez-vous à shanghai charmé a Chinese symphony that then appears to stop when it should in fact begin. filmed at the "années culturelles croisées chine et france", Marseille 2004.

ref : E4058
[ selection 2005 / pr. space ]

Tease
7mn37   color   stereo   2004   France
by Jimmy Owenns

Video work from pornographic movies found on the web (p2p). Those short videos are loops which advance in the narration by the addition of one picture added at the end of each loop.This movie is about repetition of the gesture and movement of the body. This repetition gives an erotic signification but also an hysteric meaning to those images issued from pornographic movies.

ref : E4059
[ selection 2005 / pr. sense ]

The Red Flag Flies (Hongqi Piao)
25mn   color   stereo   2003   China
by Zhou Hongxiang

A movie without story ; An independant movie with slogan as its dialogues ; A concept movie with human being as its symbols ; A movie without leading roles, nor minor roles ; A movie without professional actors.

ref : E4060
[ selection 2005 / pr. perception ]

Themes
28mn42   color   stereo   2004   USA
by Dan Boord & Luis Valdovino

It is a new year, a new century and Themes is here to nostalgically observe that they do not make the future the way that they uses to.

ref : E4061

Tournicoton
3mn   color   stereo   2004   France
by Colas Ricard

"Take a tour, take a tour around a woman who turns." HB

ref : E4062

Traverse
5mn   color   stereo   2003   France
by Gaëlle Vaillant

"Traverse" brings into play notions of off screen and angle reverse angle. It interrogates the medium and the spectators rapport with what he is watching. This video retransmits a trip. It works as a round trip, and the length of the trip determines the running time of the video (5mn). Time is staged through a multiplication of points of view.

ref : E4063

Try to understand
6mn   color   mono   2005   France
by Corinne Dardé

"Try to understand" is a cover version of "the trap", a song by Kat Onoma, which was mixed with Jack Spicer's voice reading out "Billy the Kid" in a San Francisco bookshop in 1959. This video is an attempt at re-viving the links between the text, the voice, the music and the revival of the text by Burger, as if we were going back and forth between the source of the evocation (a fading memory, a small river, the narrator and the kid, is it a trap ?) and the numerous images it generates. Repetitions, disclosures, erasures, the memory of a time internal to nature.

ref : E4064
[ selection 2005 / pr. sense ]

Veloce
3mn   b/w   stereo   2004   France
by Colas Ricard

"Diverse points of view of a moving little queen who makes a noise." HB

ref : E4065

Voyage, fragments I
7mn24   color   stereo   2004   France
by Nicolas Fouché

The image of a journey through which are cast some narratives between fiction and reality. An interrogation on the time of an image, its pathos, its mark...

ref : E4066

Voyage, fragments II
7mn   color   stereo   2004   France
by Nicolas Fouché

The image of a journey through which are casted some narratives between fiction and reality. An interrogation on the time of an image, its pathos, its mark...

ref : E4067

Voyage, fragments III
7mn05   color   stereo   2004   France
by Nicolas Fouché

The image of a journey through which are casted some narratives between fiction and reality. An interrogation on the time of an image, its pathos, its mark...

ref : E4068

Yvonne, Marie, Madeleine... 89 ans, orpheline de guerre
16mn49   color   stereo   2004   Belgium
by Catherine Menoury

"Yvonne, Marie, Madeleine... 89 ans, orpheline de guerre" is only explicit in its title : the video is sonorous, speaking, but saying nothing. Somebody ready to leave is on a quest : she searches, seems to move away from herself, to finally let it go and, continue. She is given to us to see, we get closer to her, that which was our due: the body, the voice, memory which escapes us. We regard the outside to lean towards the interior.

ref : E4069