RISC - 10th edition

Quiet Zone (2015)

David Bryant Karl Lemieux

<p>In Quiet Zone, the filmmakers take us deep into the world of those who suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity. These &ldquo;wave refugees&rdquo; settled in West Virginia around the Green Bank observatory, in an area known as the National Radio Quiet Zone. Combining elements of documentary, film essay and experimental film, Quiet Zone defies genres, weaving together an unusual story in which sound and image distort reality to make the distress and suffering of these people palpable.</p> <p>Through the use of complex imagery and sound, mind-blowing cinematic moments are born &ndash; moments of grace during which viewers witness electromagnetic waves take shape in the environment, travel through walls and invade spaces with their powerful vibrations. Known for their work in the musical group Godspeed You! Black Emperor, David Bryant and Karl Lemieux produced a striking piece of sensory genius.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Love (2016)

Réka Bucsi

<p><strong>Watch LOVE on <a href="http://cinema.arte.tv/fr/article/love-de-reka-bucsi">ARTE</a>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>LOVE is a short film describing affection in 3 different chapters, through an impact on a distant solar system. Abstract haiku-like situations reveal the change in atmosphere on one planet, caused by the change of gravity and light. This pulsing planet makes the inhabitants become one with each other in various ways.</p>

War Scarred Berlin

Roland Fuhrmann

<p>Still visible, the scars of World War II were filmed on the streets of Berlin. History and human presence intertwine.</p>

Peau D’âme (Soul Skin)

Pierre-Oscar Levy

<p>Archaeologist Oliver Weller decided to dig with his team where Jacques Demy filmed several scenes of his film Peau d&#39;&acirc;ne . Everything has disappeared, but as soon as you scratch the ground a little, beads, nails, sequins and other fragments appear. By following these excavations, Peau d&#39;&acirc;me seeks to approach a fascination for this tale whose origins are lost in oral tradition. What does this story continue to dig up in us?</p>

Zooz

Romain Blanc-Tailleur

<p>Guided by a voice that takes us into this colourful and swarming world, we discover the ZooZ ecosystem: the squabbling and cooperation, the laws that govern food and movement and the overall equilibrium that supports this small universe. As it isn&rsquo;t very big, links can quickly be established, proving to be useful, and this animal that we saw here, here it is again somewhere else&hellip;</p>

La Murène Dans La Salle De Bain (The Moray Eel Opposite the Bathroom)

Pierre Yves Clouin

<p>A moray eel in front of the bathroom / a moving pareidolia (camera).</p>

Bleach

Grayson Cooke

<p>&quot;Bleach&quot; is an art/science project combining environmental critique with material enquiry - it presents a kind of &quot;virtual coral bleaching&quot;, in which images of Australia&#39;s Great Barrier Reef are destroyed by household bleach and nitric acid. ALSO featuring crazy hydrophone recordings from sub-tropical QLD and NSW, by Karl Neuenfeldt, Jonathan Pagliano and Liz Hawkins.</p>

La Légende Du Crabe-phare (The Legend of The Crabe Phare)

Gaëtan Borde Benjamin Lebourgeois Claire Vandermeersh Alexandre Veaux Mengjing Yang

<p>The Lighthouse Crab is a legendary crustacean. He captures the boats of lost sailors to add them to his collection. But the crab is getting old, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for him to build up his collection&hellip;</p>

Birdy Wouaf Wouaf

Ayce Kartal

<p>A young bird is growing peacefully in the family nest. One day, it suddenly starts barking.</p>

Fungi (2016)

Dominique Comtat

<p>Beings that cannot be classified, neither plants nor animals, they form an autonomous kingdom, the fifth kingdom, the Fungi.</p>

O Reino (Le Royaume)

Ana B. Nuno M. Pereira

<p>An allegory of Man in his complex and primary relationship with nature and wildlife.</p>

Léo Taxil, Le Prince Des Mystificateurs Du Xixe Siècle

Robert Rossi

<p>L&eacute;o Taxil, an atypical journalist from Marseille, first became known as an anticlerical republican polemicist with a marked extreme left wing, in Marseille in the 1870s, then in Paris in the early 1880s. Rediscovering the faith in 1885, he asserted himself, during the second part of his career, as an anti-republican publicist, fervent Catholic and author of anti-Masonic writings, before publicly revealing in 1897 that he had produced forgeries in the denunciation of a Masonic conspiracy presented as the work of Satan.</p>

La République Des Autoroutes (The Republic of Motorways)

Gabriele Salvia Romain Rondet

<p>&quot;La R&eacute;publique de l&#39;Autoroute&quot; takes us on a walk along the motorways between Marseille and Aix-en-Provence. It tells the story of the subjective experience of an architect-walker caught up in the context. The walker notes the physical and symbolic figures of the landscape by capturing various images. Through walking, he grasps the physical relationships of the infrastructure to the larger landscape and geography. Similarly, he apprehends the forms of nearby spaces, by mingling with the daily and various uses that gravitate near the motorway. Walking between the city and the infrastructure, he will try to define its limits: is the motorway acquiring an &quot;urban&quot; character due to its proximity to the city? Or, on the contrary, is the urban space rather evolving according to the motorway.</p>

Sea Walnut : La Nouvelle Espèce De L’étang De Berre

Guillaume Marchessaux

<p>Mnemiopsis leidyi is an invasive gelatinous organism native to the American Atlantic coasts. This organism was observed for the first time in 2005 in the Berre pond. The Berre pond is the largest lagoon in Europe. This area, which was heavily industrialized in the past, is now undergoing rehabilitation. Due to its physiological characteristics, Mnemiopsis leidyi (or sea nut) has all the assets to be an invasive species: high spawning rate, voracious carnivorous predator, high growth rate, high abundance. My thesis is an interdisciplinary thesis linking an oceanography laboratory (MIO) and a human and social sciences laboratory (LPED). The introduction of an invasive species could attenuate the rehabilitation efforts implemented since 2006 by Europe. The aim is therefore to understand the impact of Mnemiopsis leidyi on zooplankton, and to determine the impacts of the proliferation of gelatinous organisms on human activities (pleasure boating, swimming, professional fishing). Thanks to this study we will try to implement management measures.</p>

Jongo, Passé, Présent, Futur D’un Brésil Afrodescendant

Elaine Brito

<p>Speeches by social actors who hold Jongo, an Afro-Brazilian practice recognized as intangible heritage of Brazil.</p>

Addendum

Jérôme Lefdup

<p>The reconstruction of the two human bodies digitalized by The Visible Human Project is altered, distorted, and seems to give life and feelings back to the deceased couple, in a slow and ethereal waltz, post-mortem but not morbid, that possibly materialize the ephemeral nature of our passing through this world.</p> <p>Director and Animator | J&eacute;r&ocirc;me Lefdup<br /> music | Denis Lefdup, J&eacute;r&ocirc;me Lefdup<br /> Sax and clarinet | Michel Schick<br /> Guitar | Bertrand Belin<br /> Data | The Visible Human Project<br /> Production | Le Snark (Denis Lefdup)</p>

Poétique Du Cerveau

Nurith Aviv

<p>Using a few photographs from her personal archives, memories and thoughts that these images awaken in her, a filmmaker meets five neuroscience researchers and a psychiatrist-psychoanalyst, to question them on subjects such as memory, mirror neurons, bilingualism, reading, smell or even traces of experience...</p>

Vivere (2016)

Judith Abitbol

<p>For eight years, I filmed in her village in Italy, Ede Bartolozzi who suffered from Alzheimer&#39;s disease. For eight years, I filmed what is disappearing. I know it. She knew too.</p>

La Science Est-elle Immorale? (Is Science Immoral?)

Benoît Labourdette

<p>The myth of scientific progress. Based on a text by Albert Bayet, written after the war of 1914-1918.</p>

La Terre Abandonnée (Abandoned Land)

Gilles Laurent

<p>In the evacuated area around the Fukushima nuclear power plant, 5 years after the disaster, the village of Tomioka is still empty of its fifteen thousand inhabitants. A few rare individuals still live on this land burning with radiation. Matsumura san, with his old father, takes care of the animals abandoned in the aftermath of the nuclear accident.</p>

Insolation (Oslunení)

Léa Fabreguettes

<p>In a society where it is dark all year round, only one day is an exception to the rule.</p>

No-go Zone

Atelier Collectif

<p>No-go zone evokes the daily life of the last man left in the red zone, after the evacuation of the Fukushima region and the accident at the nuclear power plant.</p>

The Architect & The Gardener

Thibault Le Texier

<p><em>English</em></p> <p>She didn&rsquo;t leave me, she asked me to do it.<br /> I draw maps, I help them to drop bombs.<br /> Hitler bombed Paris, but he hasn&rsquo;t been excommunicated.<br /> We had to choose where to go on holidays. That&rsquo;s how it started.</p> <p><em>French</em></p> <p>Elle ne m&rsquo;a pas quitt&eacute;, elle m&rsquo;a demand&eacute; de le faire.<br /> Je dessine des cartes, je les aide &agrave; larguer des bombes.<br /> Hitler a bombard&eacute; Paris, mais il n&rsquo;a pas &eacute;t&eacute; excommuni&eacute;.<br /> Nous devions choisir o&ugrave; partir en vacances. Voil&agrave; comment tout a commenc&eacute;.</p> <p>******************************************************************************</p> <p>With the voice of Todd Sells<br /> And the music of Kawabata Makoto</p> <p>All videos by Catarina Smith.<br /> All pictures by some kind of Big Brother.</p> <p>More about film&nbsp;at <a href="http://letexier.org/article.php3?id_article=138">letexier.org</a></p> <p>Film is also available for streaming <a href="http:// http://vimeo.com/letexier/architect-gardener-fr">here</a>.</p>

Estate (2016)

Ronny Trocker

<p>On a sunny Mediterranean beach, time seems to stand still. A black man, exhausted, crawls painfully to leave the beach. Around him, the usual bathers seem not to see him&hellip;</p>

Petites Histoires Du Monde Avant D’aller Dormir (Little Stories of the World Before Going to Sleep)

Maxime Coton

<p>Composed of several funny or tragic stories, the film is the first gift from a father to his newborn daughter: &quot;Here are some images of the world you come into, look at both its beauty and its violence!&quot; Mosaic and fragmented, this visual and sound story is a true ode to life and cinema.</p>

Hyas et sténorinques (Hyas and Stenorinques)

Jean Painleve

<p>In the documentary entitled &quot;Hyas&quot;, the spectacular dominates. The crustaceans Hyas and Stenorinques are shown, absolutely opposite in form but always found together and dressed either in algae or sponges, in a setting of algae and sponges with which they often blend in, which allows for some rather pretty effects. The finesse of the Stenorinque and the grotesqueness of the Hyas are associated with the splendor of the Spirograph worm which displays on the screen the fireworks of its gill plume. The object of this film was above all, even in the enormous enlargements of the gills, the decorative research and the photographic presentation.</p>

De L’autre Côté De La Plage (On The Other Side of the Dune)

Marie Daniel Fabien Mazzocco

<p>Sometimes, when we go to see the sea, we cross a universe of sand and heat, where our feet get tangled, where life seems impossible, where nothing is stable, where everything is rolling downhill. By preventing us from moving quickly in their sand, the dunes invite us to take our time&hellip; and it is a little worried but charmed that we then abandon ourselves to watching and listening. Smells, traces and songs! The people of the dunes are gradually emerging&hellip;</p>

Les Pyramides D’égypte (The Pyramids of Egypt)

Corentin Charron Lise Corriol Olivier Lafay Nicolas Mrikhi

<p>It&#39;s 1920 in Cairo. An archaeologist is about to discover the secret of the pyramids... it&#39;s not going to go as planned!</p>

Qui Cherche… Cherche : Archéologie (Who Seeks, Seeks)

Jacques Mitsch

<p>Introduced to archaeology and the past by her 6th grade history teacher, Nathalie Buchez studies ceramics found in preventive excavations, carried out as rescues during urban or rural construction sites. The ceramics she has become a specialist in are objects that often appear banal but are rich in lessons about everyday life, traditions or even the economy of yesteryear...</p>

L’archéologue

Atelier Collectif

<p>2005 seen by an archaeologist of the future and children aged 8 to 12. A Cr&eacute;activ&#39;&eacute;t&eacute; project in partnership with the Pr&eacute;histosite de Ramioul.</p>

Les Experts Remontent Le Temps : Le Néolithique

Pierre-Emmanuel Lyet

<p>The Neolithic evidence is a bit mixed after all these years. Don&#39;t panic, the experts are here to analyze everything. So let&#39;s take a look: a beautiful polished axe, here a very well-preserved ox skull, and there a nice pottery. But who were these men of the new Stone Age?</p>

A Town Called Panic - The County Fair

Vincent PATAR Stéphane AUBIER

<p>After much hard work and self-sacrifice, Indian and Cowboy pass their school exams with flying colors. To reward them for their efforts, Horse buys them VIP passes for the Annual Agricultural Fair &ndash; but when he leaves the living room to go get them, he slips on a skateboard that had been left lying around and comes crashing down on his head. When Horse wakes up in the hospital, he&rsquo;s suffering from amnesia and has no idea where he hid the tickets. So begins a race against time for Indian and Cowboy who must get hold of the precious passes before it&rsquo;s too late&hellip;</p>

L’immense Retour (Romance) (The Fullness of Time (Romance))

Manon Coubia

<p>Sitting on the edge of the gaping fault, she waited a long time, too long, for the mountain to return her lover, imprisoned in the ice.</p>

I Made You I Kill You

Alexandru Petru Bădeliță

<p>I think this film is necessary for me, at this time in my life. I have always been ashamed to talk about my childhood and I think it has caused me a lot of sadness.</p>

Le Repas Dominical (Sunday Lunch)

Céline Devaux

<p>It&#39;s Sunday. During the meal, Jean observes his family members. They ask him questions without listening to the answers, they give him advice without following it, they caress him and slap him, it&#39;s normal, it&#39;s Sunday dinner.</p>

How's your prostate?

Jeanne Paturle Cécile Rousset

<p>A discussion between two friends where one tells the other about the very strange time when, next to the swimming-pool, she learnt about her father&rsquo;s prostate, the state of his erectile function, then, with no warning, his night-time fantasies.</p>

Il Était Trois Fois (Once Upon Three Times)

Nicolas Bianco Julie Rembauville

<p>While drawing, five children wonder about the appearance of the first man on earth. This questioning leads to a battle of arguments and bloody explanations.</p>

Juliet

Marc-Henri Boulier

<p>In a near future, the SEED company launches with great fanfare, JULIET1, the first generation of synthetic pleasure beings. But as technology evolves and new styles come and go, it becomes more and more difficult for mankind to find their own place...</p>

I Want Pluto to Be a Planet Again

Marie Amachoukeli Vladimir Mavounia Kouka

<p>A transhumanist romance in the near future. A young boy of modest origins, Marcus, an H-, falls madly in love with an H+.</p> <p>Watch trailer on <a href="https://vimeo.com/186663376">Vimeo</a>.</p>

Reveil Tectonique (Tectonic Awakening)

Ivora Cusack

<p>While camping near Cannes, a group of teenagers are abruptly awakened by an earthquake...</p>

Physics and Caffeine

Charlotte Arene

<p>Why is coffee black, why does a liquid cool down when you blow on it, why is the cup drawn towards the ground&hellip;?</p> <p>All these questions were asked to researchers from the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides d&rsquo;Orsay, and brought them to explain what physics and its different domains are.</p>

Les Trois Ingenieurs (The 3 Engineers)

Hélène Boudier

<p>To keep warm, three engineers decide to dig into the depths of the Earth.</p>

Mars Society

Giulia Grossmann

<p><span style="font-size:16px">This movie is an offer to open up to our future, to our ability to assure : &ldquo;We are here. This is 2030!&rdquo;. Mars Society is a display of this future, which is so far only fiction. Conversation between today&rsquo;s fiction and scientific&rsquo;s simulation, this movie is as much an archive document on contemporary research (The conquest of space), as an experimentation flirting with two genres: the scientific documentary and the fictional contemplative work.</span></p>

Étoiles

Caroline Blais

<p>Meteors and lunar rocks seen through a microscope slowly morph into an interstellar landscape.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

Uncanny Valley (2015)

Paul Wenninger

<p>In a museum, today. A diorama represents two young soldiers in the trenches. The film questions the representation of this terrible reality, and updates the memory of the trenches in a contemporary audiovisual language.</p>

Le Nano De La Meduse

Jean-François Comminges

<p>This is enough to restore the image of jellyfish that swarm on certain coasts at the risk of spoiling bathers&#39; holidays. Indeed, these gelatinous animals, thanks to the mucus they release under stress, &quot;trap&quot; nanoparticles that disperse and accumulate in the water, and which no current filtration system can retain. Filmmaker Jean-Fran&ccedil;ois Comminges met Philippe Barthelemy, chemist at the laboratory Nucleic Acids: Natural and Artificial Regulations (ARNA &ndash; CNRS/Inserm/UBordeaux), Alain Thierry, biologist at the Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Marine and Continental Ecology (IMBE &ndash; CNRS/AMU/IRD/UAPV) and Fabien Lombard, zoologist at the Villefranche sur Mer Oceanographic Observatory (OOV -CNRS/UPMC. In a 7-minute video, they share this promising discovery with us. Suddenly going from the status of an undesirable scourge to that of a prophetic solution, the jellyfish thus continues its incredible journey through the ages and future hopes&hellip;</p>

La Visite (2015)

Laetitia Carton

<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s the story of an encounter. That of Julie with modern art. That of Julie and me.&rdquo;</p>

Conjurer L’angoisse Par L’énumération

Gwendal Sartre

<p>Gwendal Sartre invites us to a fugue of numbers, stories and breaths. The secret links between numbers secretly stimulate eroticism, they are the warmth that we perceive in the movement of bodies or the simple hairstyle of a woman. The film tends to the infinite as much as to the infinitesimal: facing a molecular landscape, the mathematician engraves messages of love on the roots of the hair.</p>

A Place I've Never Been

Adrian Flury

<p>By sourcing multiple digital images of the same place from different archives, this experiment in film makes use of frame by frame montage to discover hidden forms, patterns and references thereby giving new meaning to the prevailing redundancy of these pictures.&nbsp;</p>

A Tourist Guide To Sri Lanka

Chris Daykin

<p>Travel experience, old and new sketches and brambles. I worked, tried to preserve my notes and memory, and take a look at Sri Lanka through animation.</p>

Matière première (Raw Material)

Jean-Francois Reverdy

<p>&quot;The journey proceeds on desertic lands. Starting with the laborers quarrying red dirt at open-air mines, it follows the iron ore all the way to the ocean, aboard the world&#39;s longest train. At the end, the wrecks scattered on the beach announce the voyage&#39;s end. Meanwhile, bound for prosperous countries, the cargo of valuable ore is heaped into the holds of ships at the dock. This film uses the pinhole camera device, one of the earliest ways of capturing reality. The technique yields an unusual perception of the desert&#39;s geology, light, machines, and men.&rdquo;</p>

Hotaru

William Laboury

<p>They told me: &ldquo;You have a gift, Martha. Here, this gift is nothing to you. So we will show you the most beautiful things. You will never wake, but you will carry the most precious memories&hellip;&rdquo;</p>

Chauffe Qui Peut

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<p>Energy insecurity or accumulation of inequalities? Based on the results of a sociological survey within a Marseille association helping households in difficulty, the film questions the issue of energy insecurity and reminds us that the problem of poor housing is not new.</p>

Natures Ordinaires

Jean-François Comminges

<p>Produced as part of the Cin&eacute;sciences workshops in collaboration with the Valabre agricultural high school in Gardanne and the students of the 1&egrave;re STAV B class in collaboration with students of BTS Gestion et Protection de la Nature.</p>

L’algue Et Le Champignon

Claire Second

<p>In the Ard&egrave;che mountains, a journey to meet lichens.</p>

Interlocutori Del Vento

Salvatore Insana

<p>Hold your breath. Natural forms full of memory, stronger than any present moment. Plant bodies that retain what time corrodes, in their agony, they deform and curl, between anthropomorphism, dance and baroque impulses. Animal presences, too, guardians of the action that does not yield to rationality.</p>

Hunger

Petra Zlonoga

<p>Everything that is alive is hungry. A seed is hungry for light, a bird is hungry for flight, man is hungry for the touch of another. The seed of longing grows into what feeds us.</p>

SELF (2015)

Claudia Larcher

<p>The skin is the body&#39;s largest sense organ: delicate and at the same time extremely robust, it has to fulfill various functions, from excretion through to storage of nutrients. Although one hopes to shed it at a metaphorical level, it simultaneously serves as the bearer of our identity, which can be written on, marked, and changed. It is more than simply a shell, more than a border between inside and outside, it is the&nbsp;<strong>self</strong>, (not only) in Larcher&#39;s video.&nbsp;</p> <p><br /> A laconic-analytical camera pan shows a close-up of it at the beginning: pores, fine hairs, a mesh of blue veins that shine through the delicate membrane. In what follows, details yield a whole, and one seems to recognize neck, armpit, and upper arm. Suggested here is an interior that this skin stretches around. But suddenly there are &quot;wrong&quot; extensions, &quot;impossible&quot; elongations and overlaps. The border between inside and outside is successively dissolved and flows into a &quot;liquefaction&quot; of the image in whose blurriness, pink masses multiply and caverns protrude until the camera returns to the start again.<br /> <br /> The complex and dramatic sound (by Constantin Popp, once again) carries the originally mentioned references and transfers the images into a tale of a fragile self; &quot;skin horror&quot; and genetic mutation phantasm. Something cracks here, air is drawn in, the whirring and rustling intensify, scraps of conversation push through. As more traces of reality become audible, it becomes increasingly uncanny. This organ, which surrounds us everyday, has become independent, obeys its own, uncontrolled dynamics, whose calm at the end will only be temporary.&nbsp;<em>(Claudia Slanar)</em></p>

Luménité (2016)

Pierre Yves Clouin

<p>On a mission.</p>

Vita Brevis (2015)

Thierry Knauff

<p>Following the marvelous blossoming of millions of mayflies on the waters of the Tisza River, Vita Brevis is a poem of the moment, an evocation of the fragile and brief dance of life.</p>

Avec Le Frère De Mon Père Mort

Mélodie Tabita

<p>I filmed this road step by step, this painful face to face with this country, these people, this family so close and so far away. It is by trying to look at what was foreign to me as if it were familiar to me and what was familiar to me as if it were foreign to me that I was able to hold and hold the frame. There, I experienced a terrible violence, when you understand nothing, when you can say nothing. Where I was born, in France, is also where my father silenced his mother tongue: Arabic. This language that I do not speak since my father did not give it to me. This word killed by the dead was a quest, a journey, a pilgrimage or simply the work of mourning.</p>

Figura (2015)

Katarzyna Gondek

<p>Everything is white, swept by the wind. A gigantic shape emerges from the curtain of snow and takes to the road. It passes through cities, villages, houses, and arrives at the top of a hill, alongside spiders, saints, and bumper cars. Figure is a surreal tale about the creation of mythologies, religious kitsch, and the desire for grandeur. Who is our protagonist? The largest religious miniature in the world. A gigantic contradiction.</p>

Ils Me Laissent L’exil – Les Objets

Lætitia Tura

<p>A memory card, a raincoat, a miniature car, a beret: objects saved from border crossings, objects given away or forgotten. It is also in these fragile traces that a transmission of the memory of exile is possible.</p>

Homo Sapiens

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

<p>HOMO SAPIENS is a film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age, and what it means to be a human being.</p> <p>What will remain of our lives after we&rsquo;re gone?</p> <p>Empty spaces, ruins, cities increasingly overgrown with vegetation, crumbling asphalt: the areas we currently inhabit, though humanity has disappeared. Now abandoned and decaying, gradually reclaimed by nature after being taken from it so long ago.</p> <p>HOMO SAPIENS is an ode to humanity as seen from a possible future scenario.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>