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<p>This film tells the commitment of Master's students Digital law of the University from Aix-Marseille in a project of awareness about the fight against racism and anti-Semitism the university.</p>
<p>Dive into the heart of forests of the Luberon in company of Lilian, mission manager Forests and Natura 2000 at the Natural Park regional Luberon.</p>
<p>Intended for elected officials local, these atlases allow them to be driving forces for promote a sustainable management and concerted forest management, and the valorization of forest resources.</p>
<p>Wandering through Brussels, the city reveals to us the difficulties of meeting people in an urban world. It is by chance in the Brussels suburbs that you come across the CHEZ JEF chip shop where you are welcomed by Manu Didier and Jef. Once you arrive, you will never leave, won over by their kindness and friendliness.</p>
<p>Four researchers wish to demonstrate the role of algae invisible to the naked eye in capturing CO2 on a global scale.</p>
<p>In recent decades, the Earth has been sending alarming signals about the current state of the climate. It is becoming urgent to act to stop worsening the extent of climate change. Lacking political support, many local initiatives are developing around the world in favor of environmental protection by offering a new way of life.</p>
<p>The sea is in constant motion. As soon as they are laid, certain fish eggs are carried by currents to new territories. Scientists from the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology are trying to draw a map of these invisible trajectories, in order to best protect these fragile organisms.</p>
<p>Charlotte Simmler is a scientist. His study and research revolve around the invisible scent released by underwater sponges. What does she see, what does she hear and what does she feel during her experiments, her underwater expeditions and in her relationships with her colleagues? This is what this film invites us to discover...</p>
<p>Wherever you are, there is always noise. Underwater, our perception of sounds changes, appearing muffled or reduced, making the underwater world appear as a “world of silence”. This space is, however, inhabited by an abundant, complex, fragile and noisy ecosystem. This biodiversity is threatened every day by human activity, particularly noise pollution.</p>
<p>Starting from a security check procedure at the entrance to the Tel Aviv airport, By the Throat takes us on the exploration of a more deeply engraved border, albeit an invisible one. A border that defines the sounds we can emit and the words we can pronounce. We carry with us these sonic and anatomical limits, created by our mother-tongue, becoming ourselves a mobile check-point, wherever we are.</p>
<p>Of what consists the distance separating us from butterflies? Thomas raises them, Jean observes them in his garden. As fine as it may be, there is a link.</p>
<p>But where have the bees gone? After realizing their disappearance during their insect collection, our investigators went to ask the question to an entomologist, an insect expert. They give us some advice for welcoming bees into our gardens.</p>
<p>In the courtyard of the Air Bel primary school in Marseille, during recess, the boys take up much more space than the girls to play football. The girls have had enough! They decide to mobilize, and a team of reporters goes out into the field to meet the students to find out what actions have been put in place...</p>
<p><em>Tehran Recyclers</em> portrays the diverse cultural, social and urban fabrics of this metropolis by means of experimental animation. In the urban hideouts of this city, little creatures come to life. These are digitally composed with collected waste from the streets and typical local products. The clatter of the limbs of these creatures interacts with the soundscapes of Tehran.</p>
<p>How was Marseille 2000 years ago? Children lead the investigation, from the History Museum to a Gallic archaeological site...</p>
<p>Patouille is a little creature who lives in harmony with the plants. With his friend Momo, he discovers the amazing features of plants.</p>
<p>After a visit to an archaeological site and the History Museum, children pass on their knowledge and re-enact the story.</p>
<p>In several thousand of years humanity has appropriated its environment. It was coagulated, fermented, drained and refined… Transformed in product. Series Milky Way operates different forms of cheeses to put on stage the conflicts between modernity human and nature.</p> <p>These films were made during various different periods of my life. They all investigate different aspects of nature, whether they delve into its inaccessible truths, study its frictional relationship with humanity or simply contemplate its stunning riches. Many of these images were shot while I was out for a walk, often with a specific project in mind, but prepared for surprise discoveries which would enrich, or even supplant, my original ideas. Filtering these images through the prism of my imagination, I fictionalize the fruit of my observations, adding animation, sonic experimentation and music. These films consist of my attempt, as a human being, to create an imaginary link with nature. (Cyprien Nozières)</p>
<p>A woman discovers by chance the photographic collection of a family of Jewish photographers who worked in Provence between 1910 and 1944.</p>
<p><em>Faire la nouille </em></p> <p>Being a noodle</p> <p>Of the return of the prodigal noodle or the metaphor in latency or the eye of Pierre Yves Clouin which awakens the latent beneath the trivial, the metaphor beneath the smallest element. arte povera or machine art or the bias of the thing. All this in serious humor: a noodle in the shape of a small bow or butterfly is separated from other identical ones grouped together on the white support of a household appliance, a washing machine or dishwashing machine which vibrates when running and makes the little ones jump food. It takes 1 minute and 17 seconds for the isolated person to reach the others and according to the title, in game in the style of Pierre Yves Clouin, to thus "join the herd". Returning to your peers after the temptation of a more risky life, returning like the prodigal son after having spent everything or even before having even tried: the noodle is intact. The resemblance announced is that of the sheep or any other group animal, with gregarious behavior; it takes a sociological look at the fear or impossibility of remaining alone, of living autonomously, which slides towards the depreciative territory: choosing to be more of a fool than a thinker. Pierre Yves Clouin could have said it was too good a pasta but he preferred French-style food with a less happy nuance. The noodle is not cooked there, without which the adhesion, the softness would have prevented the little sound of jumping but there is thus another shift in meaning, towards the "object" portmanteau word made of object and play by Francis Ponge. Him, Ponge held another butterfly, the real one flying, he saw it as "a tiny sailboat of the air mistreated by the wind into superfluous petals." Pierre Yves Clouin does with the form, what the poet does with the word but for both, the object/food retained becomes the inspired motif, the place of the metaphor, beyond the common gaze - which separates us from the herd . Every object is a reason for invention. Because she is a butterfly, the noodle takes us far from the slang formulas that the artist's previous films could have triggered and it triggers our smile in front of the poetic quip in the video.</p> <p><em>Simone Dompeyre</em></p>
<p>Single channel digital video,</p> <p>b&w, 5:09 mins</p> <p>The Equilibrists of the film are patient and surprising exemplars of the lessons to be learnt from scrutinising the elementary principles of physics. Here familiar feats of balance and curious games combine with the didactic serving as a reminder of the patience, delicacy and balance essential for stability. An accompanying booklet transfers the film's subject matter, look and feel to the printed page (see publications)</p>
<p>The head does it all. While other body-parts have their separate functions as instruments, the head is an all-purpose tool. The head's universality: Object-oriented media magician Anna Vasof celebrates it, and at the same time questions its primacy.</p> <p>In 24 ten-second-shots, her video Amazon Woman demonstrates what a head – always Vasof's – can do: The nose can be a socket; the ear can be the grip part of a steering-wheel. Teeth can be pliers to extract nails; the eyes punctuate processes by blinking; the mouth sucks. This is staged by way of exchanges based in equivalence and reciprocity: All the vignettes – most of them showing repetitive routines – have Vasof's head isolated, miniaturized and displaced; it serves as an object or tool in the hands of a body which has this very object or tool in place of a head. In this way, the woman with the socket-head uses Vasof's head as a socket, Mrs. vacuum-cleaner-head vacuum-cleans with it, and Mrs. ice-cream-head has her strawberry-mango cheek licked by Vasof's head on an ice-cream cone. Smart-phone woman wipes the head repeatedly, teabag woman lifts and lowers it stoically.</p> <p>AWhen the head's work – eg, logics – becomes embodied and things become cerebral, humor emerges. Vasof makes you think ahead – as well as think back, remembering other heads, brutally displaced and manipulated in size: Méliès, Kienholz, Dada-style montages, horror cinema. Vasof's video, however, merges the tragic with slapstick in displaying life (en)during lockdown. This is intimated by the baffling displacements, and also by layers of meaning in the title: Amazon Woman is the door bell-headed delivery worker who pushes a Vasof-headed bell button in the first shot. She is an online shopper who lives all by herself with her lifestyle and kitchen tools. Ultimately, revolver-head shows us the Amazon as body-modified warrior with a headband. Mysteriously, it all ends with a door-sign showing a couple and the well-known logo of a super-glue: yet another all-purpose tool. (Drehli Robnik)</p>
<p>An old gold digger tells us the story of the mythical pants, the Blue Jean. By describing the stages of its manufacture, he opens our eyes to the consequences of this polluting, unfair and unsustainable industry.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
<p>Planktonium is a short film about the unseen world of living microscopic plankton. It is a voyage into a secret universe, inhabited by alien-like creatures. These stunningly beautiful, very diverse and numerous organisms are unknown to most of us because they are invisible to the naked eye. However, they are wandering beneath the surface of all waters around us and they are of vital importance for all life on earth.</p> <p>Jan van IJken filmed the plankton through his microscopes, revealing the beauty and delicate structures of the minute organisms in the finest detail. The film is without any voice-over or explanation.</p> <p>Renowned Norwegian artist <a href="https://www.janawinderen.com/">Jana Winderen</a> made a sound composition for the film. She is recording audio environments and creatures which are hard for humans to access, both physically and aurally – deep under water, inside ice or in frequency ranges inaudible to the human ear.</p> <p>Phytoplankton (small plant-like cells) are producing half of all oxygen on earth by photosynthesis, like plants and trees do on land. Zooplankton are forming the base of the food chain of aquatic life. Plankton are also playing an important part in the global carbon cycle. The plankton are threatened by climate change, global warming and acidification of the oceans.</p>
<p>In 2023, teenagers and children walk in their city, Marseille. They live without knowing it within the perimeter of a historic tragedy, « Operation Sultan », which in 1943 engulfed an entire section of the popular city. This film narrates the encounter of these young inhabitants with this forgotten historical event.</p>
<p>The digital format breaks when trying to replicate neural activity. Rapid eye movements occur in one of the stages of sleep where the body is paralyzed while consciousness is obliged to exist between two dimensions, it is on this frontier that transient images appear leaving an immaterial trace.</p>
<p>In search of the reasons for his chronic insomnia, the director films his own investigation into sleep. Gradually widening his investigations, he goes to meet other plant and animal species. Living beings watch, sleep and dream. The wakeful sleeper questions these different states of consciousness and the difficulty humans have in synchronising their social rhythm with their biological rhythm.</p>
<p>Wandering between the scientific and the psychedelic, "Earth's Answer" is a reflection on the meaning of images, their nature and durability (and a homage to the poem "Earth's Answer" by William Blake). <br /> We follow the thread of the thoughts of a man who could be just well an astrophysicist, CERN archivist or a musician. In his mental and sensorially graphic journey, the narrator leads us in a reflection on the infinitely large and the infinitely small, memory and machines, entropy .. and worlds in formation...</p>
<p>At the beginning, there is simultaneity. A marine fossil of a crinoid discovered near the summit of Mount Everest, a famous British mountaineer who vanishes, and a Russian statesman who dies are the starting points of a story on the transformation of matter. Of these bodies, gone in 1924, all that remains is everything.</p> <p>The film is a free and transversal exploration of terrestrial matter and its transformations. The preserved bodies of George Mallory and Lenin, one fossilized by weather conditions, the other embalmed with the use of petrochemistry, have become, in a way, the eternal achievements of the political ideologies that had moved them. Humans have permutated their original organic cycle in order to nestle within other, larger cycles of the Earth. Produced using original 16mm and images found on the internet, the various levels of imagery and the intrinsic textures of each medium telescope and merge into a kind of hallucinatory flow.</p>
<p>“We are mad to be filming the wind; filming the impossible is what’s best in life.” The dream of making the wind graspable has stirred artists since time immemorial. Joris Ivens was not the only one fully aware of this futile endeavor. Martin Putz likewise searches the world for people and places of the wind, while mindful of the fact that only things standing in the way of the wind can provide an inkling of its workings. Without the friction and the motion the wind effects, it remains invisible. (Regina Schlagnitweit)w</p>
<p>In 1946, eight months after the atomic bombings, an American army film team made a feature documentary in Japan. Several reels are shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki including the “11004”.</p>
<p>One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean reflects on the experience of not being able to see the world with depth perception. Made up of micro- events from "satisfying video" that swarm on the internet, the abstract narrative unfolds through an appropriation way by referring to trance and minimal music. It's about a desire for groundless waves, blended with today's inexorable entropy of our information societies.</p>
<p>Jean lives as a hermit in a forest. From his cabin, he listens to and records the sounds of the animals that inhabit the surrounding area. One night, he hears the cry of an unknown animal. Along with Mana, a young girl who sings with the birds, he goes in search of the mysterious creature.</p>
<p>While dancing, bees tell each other stories about the world around them. People also claim a role in those stories, sometimes very close and intimate, sometimes distant and on an industrial scale. From the smallest cell in a honeycomb to the global economy, this essayistic nature documentary charts the bond between humans and bees.</p>
<p>Sometimes at the feet of those who seek to cross the border illegally, sometimes in the hands of people who are in solidarity with them, first price snow boots circulate between France and Italy. Their journey reveals a territory of mountains where men cross paths and help each other.</p>
<p>Yerevan, capital of Armenia. Two hundred and thirty meters underground, in the Avan salt mine, men and women walk to breathe more easily. Physical activities and medical consultations punctuate the days of this underground clinic. In this timeless world, lives intersect and are told.</p>
<p>Nivardo and Ismael, both over seventy years old, survive in the current economic context of Cuba by producing charcoal. Night after night, the two best friends watch over a process of transformation, hidden behind an acrid smoke. Wood is slowly turned into charcoal and at the same time their reality is unwittingly but irrevocably moving away from the revolutionary ideals for which they have been fighting for more than 60 years.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify">$75,000 highlights the biological aspect of albinism, which is a genetic and hereditary abnormality that affects not only pigmentation, bu also and above all the physical and moral conditions of people with albinism. These people are victims of discrimination, mutilation and ritual crimes in Africa. </p>
<p>A teenage girl tries to escape her reality using an Instagram filter. The desire to be free by existing as an image collapsed after losing control over her avatar.<br /> From a distance, Anhar casts family and friends shooting and acting for the movie as fictionalized versions of themselves, exploring and hovering between private and public life in Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>The LED on my webcam started flashing for no reason. Is it possible that an observer, a hacker, a friend or ghost is currently housed in my webcam? I embark on a series of video-calls to find out what this elusive entity wants with me.</p>
<p>“You will give birth in pain.” Why? Are there other narratives? Because birth does not always rhyme with pain, Crotch stories transmits a new imaginary : women who are on their way to reclaiming their bodies and their labors.</p> <p>With Histoires d’entrejambes, Myleine Guiard-Schmid offers us an opportunity to feel, rather than think about, the autonomy of childbirth. Through the contrast of pixilation and animated painting, we are guided through a dreamlike journey that highlights the testimonies of midwives and people who have given birth. Rhythmed by the waves and sounds of childbirth, the director offers us a poetic exploration of the pain, pleasure and transformation of giving birth. This sensitive and slightly irreverent work inspires us to reclaim our collective power by sharing thousands of crotch stories.</p> <p>Jessica Buckingham, Member of the Movement for Autonomy in Childbirth</p>
<p>Camille became a peasant, as they say of someone that lives off the land. She chose the Creuse region, a rough and supple land, laborious yet luminous, but experiences a growing rejection of the agricultural standards that govern her production. Raising her three children, caring for her animals and plants, will always be more important to her than yield. In parallel, her children learn to make choices in the face of the standards imposed on them by the school system.</p>
<p>The German American architect Mies van der Rohe numbers among the most important representatives of classical modernism. His bold structures of glass and steel such as The New Gallery in Berlin have permanently changed the world of architecture. Artist Claudia Larcher animates photographs of works by the influential architect in her Collapsing Mies. Vertical grid and frame structures in front of a black ground slowly but steadily slide into view. The palette of colors and forms is extremely reduced, visual accents provided by grey, blue and brown marble. The images steadily turn on a central vertical axis as they perpetually grow in number. A minimalistic electronic soundtrack by Alexander J. Eberhard increasingly telescopes in perfect synchronicity with the images. In a paradoxical play of forms the architectural photos are superimposed multiple times. While this makes it impossible to distinguish concrete buildings and objects, the formal language of van der Rohe's constructivist minimalism is clearly on display. Larcher uses shots of facades as well as interiors, collapsing distinctions between inside and outside.</p> <p>The boundary between two- and three-dimensional space is also broken down. Two dimensional photographs of three-dimensional objects are virtually re-translated in an artificial 3-D space, as well as being layered in and atop one another. In this way, the artist renders a complex, multi-perspectival spatial structure while at the same time creating a minimalist abstract motion. Mies van der Rohe's modernist dream of efficiency, transparency, and elegance is made manifest in this acutely compressed computer animation. His rationalistic aesthetic is wonderfully elucidated by way of Larcher's distillation and abstraction. With this highly aesthetic reflection upon architectural history, Larcher generates an experimental artwork of particular beauty resting on constructive logic and formal rigor. (Norbert Pfaffenbichler)</p>
<p>During the first lockdown, at night, she observes the South Africa's wildlife. In nature reserves livecams have been put in place around water points. She discovers that these territories have generated and still generate many forced local inhabitants displacements, whether they are human or non-human. This green tourism is intended for international elite. Regards Blancs is a poem of hope and resistance in a society where the Living is more and more under control.</p>
<p>Aqueducts transport water. Images transmit the memory. Images of aqueducts are useless.</p>
<p>That was when I thought I could hear you on petals, on fire, and on the edge of the bridge.</p>
<p>In A RADICAL FILM, Canapa experimented with thin slices of black radish on unexposed film, a reference to film's roots. FURTHER RADICAL is the same material taken to its logical extreme on an optical printer. A veritable explosion of light goes right through the dark photochemical emulsion.</p>
<p>Quantum strings calculated away from any verification experimental, are here identified with their equations.</p> <p>The strings summoned here are those studied by theoretical physics, pure calculations away from any experimental verification. They are here identified with their equations, born with their mathematical writings. Governed by their calculations, they move, deform, unfold, weld together across space. Meetings of writings, traces, letters, symbols, diagrams of physics with the plasticity of artistic drawings but above all a common desire to invent other ways of seeing and saying must allow that sometimes rigor and imagination cooperate.</p>
<p>It all began with: A broken and battered father and his daughter who dreams of “fixing” him. A cat falling from the 8th floor and becoming a paraplegic. A medical experiment involving 12 paralysed people in China. A road accident in Italy. And this is how The Mechanics of Things brought it all together in a crazy collective adventure to try and fix the unfixable.</p>