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<p>Between a diary, drawn dreams, and reworked home movies, a filmmaker in declining health makes bittersweet use of his own struggles. A journey around beloved bodies, between France and Italy. Singular and sensual glimpses. Fragments of laughter, anxieties, and dreams.</p>
<p>Anatomopathologists observe the stories of bodies when life undergoes radical change: through artisanal practices and advanced technologies, they fix signs onto slides, examine them, magnify them, project them, and observe them again. From this encounter, the film delves into a reflection on the image, bridging art and science.</p>
<p>"How can I sink my teeth into life when I'm missing half of them?" At twenty-two, while she would rather be partying, making love, or doing nothing at all, Keren constantly undergoes dental surgeries. Over several months, this young Israeli filmmaker documents her life, her loved ones, and her confrontation with the gaze of others.</p>
<p>He hadn't planned anything, hadn't anticipated anything. One winter morning, he set off alone on foot to cross the country from South to North. Simply to wander, break free from attachments and routines, and see the land and the daily lives of its inhabitants with fresh eyes. He relied on chance to meet people and pursued only one goal: Happiness.</p>
<p>Prehistoric artists managed to break down the movement of the animals they depicted, thereby anticipating the concept of "animation."</p>
<p>A small image of an ibex once again attests to the existence of a process for breaking down movement as far back as those ancient times.</p>
<p>Reconstitution in facsimile of a 15,000-year-old bone disc. This surprising object is thought to be a thaumatrope, an optical toy usually dated to the 19th century!</p>
<p>36,000 years ago, artists from the Aurignacian period created a fabulous masterpiece on the walls of the Chauvet cave: 425 animals depicted with extraordinary technical skill.</p>
<p>A film initiated by the Cinémathèque Française (France - 2007).The Cinémathèque Française digitized, restored and reanimated more than 400 fragile cellulose nitrate films of Etienne-Jules Marey’s work. These 400 incunables are presented for the first time in this film: a monument!</p>
<p>This cartoon is made of nearly 200 drawings on paper and is handmade by recycling old newspapers. The drawings are made with charcoal and natural pigments. The graphic style is adapted from the parietal representations of the southwest of France and the north of Spain, and corresponds to a period ranging from 25,000 to 18,000 years before the present. In the total darkness of the depths of the caves, they lit themselves with oil lamps, and no doubt they saw the shadows of the roughness of the rock dancing, because the paintings follow these movements. What they saw, what they heard, felt, experienced, belongs to them forever.</p>
<p>A millennial rock engraving in Niger and a kidney cell preserved for a quarter of a century, two living traces in juxtaposition, narrated by the biologist Jean Claude Ameisen.</p>
<p>This experimental short film by Norman McLaren is a playful exercise in intermittent animation and spasmodic imagery. Playing with the laws relating to persistence of vision and after-image on the retina of the eye, McLaren engraves pictures on blank film creating vivid, percussive effects.</p>
<p>How to tell in a completely offbeat, cheeky, and funny way that the Earth has been cold, hot, cold, hot? How to bring together in one film the glyptodon, Erik the Red, and Louis XIV, all in one minute? Well, here it is, it's a little story of climate change.</p>
<p>What makes the body solid? Which parts of the body move and what movements are possible? Children answer these questions with images by observing, manipulating, and questioning...</p>
<p>A modest and peaceful inventor is disturbed in his retreat by an important sir who wants to take advantage of his talent of Geo Trouvetout to become a billionaire.</p>
<p>An unlikely hero embarks on a long journey on land, at sea, and in the air. He will cross a planet that has become a huge petrochemical amusement park.</p>
<p>An exploration of Kepler's universe through a geometric and cosmic dance. With the participation of the Austrian Society for Contemporary Music, ÖGZM - Vienna Orchestra.</p>
<p>How do scientists imagine reality from elements that seem minute and unreadable? The archaeozoologist: their specialty is studying animal remains to understand their relationship with humans!</p>
<p>There are people for whom the "white zones" represent happiness. Such is the case of Anne, Elisabeth, and Philippe, who are electro-hypersensitive, and whose life stories often come down to the constant search for places free from the waves that harm them, and increasingly remote areas where they can live.</p>
<p>In a world of colorful musical comedy, a monster from an old black-and-white Hollywood film appears. It attacks the residents of a small town, disintegrating them or turning them into zombies!</p>
<p>A film built from a time-lapse photographic montage around the trajectory of the sun, through a series of landscapes.</p>
<p>This film parodies our desire to domesticate what we cannot control.</p>
<p>A father and a mother are tasked with explaining Einstein's theory of relativity to their 9-year-old son.</p>
<p>Céleste performs El Emigrante, a popular Spanish song that tells the story of the struggles faced by emigrants forced to leave their homeland due to economic and/or political reasons.</p>
<p>Republican exile in Bobigny, Daniel Serrano, now 91 years old, has been fighting from his suburban home to rehabilitate the memory of his brother Eudaldo, executed in 1941 at the end of the Spanish Civil War. His struggle is primarily the fight of a man who, despite the ideological crisis, the pacts of silence, and the forgetfulness that characterize contemporary Spain, has decided not to admit defeat.</p>
<p>About thirty students in a playground of a Moroccan school, holding a mirror in hand. Between photography and video, signals of light and messages of childhood are reflected.</p>
<p>An epic story of the arrival of electricity in an isolated village in the heart of the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. For over three years, season after season, the filmmaker patiently unveils the contours of the web that will inevitably close in on the inhabitants of Ifri. Before our eyes, the image of a relentless modernity emerges, to which the small village will be connected.</p>
<p>Through the story of his own family, where the absence of a father is passed down from one generation to the next, the filmmaker seeks answers to a question that haunts him: how does a child grow up without a father? And how does a father grow up without his child? The answers emerge through an unusual journey, a memory game where one moves from square to square, from railway landscapes to public gardens, from a Maginot Line fort to an abandoned station, from a fairground to the Amazon rainforest.</p>
<p>Fukushima, one year later. A progressive contamination of television images erupts into a radioactive bloom.</p>
<p>Venus is recalculated here: theorems and a mathematical formula allow for its reincarnation.</p>
<p>The tomato was discovered by Europeans at the same time as the New World. The Aztecs passed down this plant, which now covers a third of the world's cultivated land...</p>
<p>A reflection on the image of the city. The space is intentionally altered, decomposed, repeated, cut, redrawn. Sound and image are intimately linked in this free interpretation of the architecture and urban space of Nancy.</p>
<p>An exploration of cinematic space within an implosion of cerebral space. This surreal story of extraterrestrials, human experiments, video games, and mutation bombards the viewer with visual and auditory stimuli from the planet Fleisch.</p>
<p>"A young woman stands in a room and repeatedly presses the light switch. And everything ends as it begins: partial 'illuminations' inevitably lead to darkness." Norbert Pfaffenbichler</p>
<p>Short film made in Montreal, loosely inspired by Kafka's Letters to Milena: on the border of the fantastic, the film portrays a young man wrapped in white, endlessly wandering the snow-covered streets of Montreal, crossing cold, barren avenues populated by invisible presences.</p>
<p>A flying saucer lands at Le Panier in Marseille. It seems to be looking for something...</p>
<p>Using unseen footage of the film “Le Navire Night”, Duras traces a travelling shot through the streets of Paris, from the Bastille to the Champs-Élysées. The blue tones of early morning contrast with the urban tinge of traffic lights, cars and buildings. The colours extend themselves to the memories of millenarian hands which fascinate de the director as the carry with them the silent human condition – the passing of time.</p>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td> <p>Salt: trace, absence of water, the passage of time, invading epidemic, living cemetery.</p> <p>Water: manoeuvre, absolute value, fertility, rhizomes, chance.</p> <p>Cotton: corruption, economic issues, hydrophily, desertification.</p> <p>The world has become a vast dried out planet, where the growing of cotton, overexploited for economical reasons is the main cause of desertification. A saline desert covers acres of dried-out land where strange salt trees appear.</p> <p>This phenomenon echoes an even greater ecological disaster, the desertification of the Aral Sea. And man is always responsible...</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>
<p>The Holy Chicken, a magnificent beast, worshiped and exploited, in a tale of love and regret, art and science, Life and Music.</p>
<p>2A wonderfully surreal short turns the poetic neurological concept into a deranged visual symphony. Plus: a creepy video for the musician St. Vincent!</p> <p>Probably the easiest-to-explain example of the brain-wire crossing neurological concept of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synesthesia" target="_blank"><strong>synesthesia</strong></a> is when somebody associates (and sees in their brain) certain colors with numbers. But it doesn't stop there—essentially, synesthesia is when the stimulation of one sensory/cognitive pathway leads to another automatic experience in another sensory/cognitive pathway.</p> <p>syn·es·the·sia syn·aes·the·sia (sĭn'ĭs-thē'zhə)</p> <p>n.</p> <p>A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.</p> <p>A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain.</p> <p>The description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another.</p> <p> </p>
<p>Organopolis takes a humorous look at the physical and emotional journey affecting young pupil’s everyday life through the reactions of their body organs.</p>
<p>20Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth’s upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz. Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception.</p>
<p>Somewhere in the Universe, on the PLANET Z, a miracle happens. A water jet springs up and gives birth to a new life: plants. A desert planet becomes a green planet. Different species cohabit, including liquid and sticky mushrooms. But little by little, the mushrooms invade the green land and destroy the idyllic life. The toxic spores kill the plants and transform the green planet into a mouldy land. After destroying all the vegetation, the future of the mould seems uncertain – a species cannot live without other ones.</p>
<p><strong>Black Rain</strong>, by British artist duo Semiconductor, is based on images from the NASA’s STEREO mission (2006–2008), satellites launched to observe a host of solar and interplanetary phenomena. Spectacular light patterns intersect with flares, bands and video glitches, reminding us of a mediating perspective. Refusing contextual information or spatial and temporal scales, the film casts us adrift in the cosmos, compelling us to share its awe at the mysteries of the universe.</p> <p><em>– Srikanth Srinivasan</em></p>
<p>This documentary, made between 2010 and 2012, is an exploration into the heart of what is visible, of the image and what hides inside it. In other words, it explores everything that is invisible to us. In the film, you will encounter two characters: an artist and a physician, both on a quest to find what is real. Each of them, through their own unique ways of seeing the world and respective experiences, seek to understand the world around them. Nir Navon uses lasers to trap and try to control a cloud of atoms, while Quentin Brejon revisits the camera obscura, ancestor of all photographic devices. Despite their opposite approaches, both confront the mysterious qualities of light. Through this, they discover the hidden and foreign face of reality, which make all forms of representation and observation impossible. What does an image become if it turns out to be nothing more than a projection of the imagination? And, if our perception of the world modifies reality, what can we ultimately trust? Is the artist's imagination the only true way to understand quantic theory? Can these concepts explain the indescribable truth we often find in art? InVisible evokes the possibility of a more faithful representation of reality at the limits between scientific rationality and artistic sensitivity.</p>
<p>A group of six deep-sea divers, specializing in working at great depths, live for weeks between the bottom of the ocean and the hyperbaric chamber in an offshore job on the Luna platform.</p>