Playlist

RISC - 6th edition

30 Nov - 8 Dec 2012
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Le Monde En Un Jardin

FILM France 2011 · 91 min
Frédérique Pressmann

<p>Chronicle of a year in the Belleville park in Paris, where the art of a gardener/philosopher invites the diverse population of this neighborhood to reclaim public space. An opportunity, perhaps, to collectively reinvent a more harmonious way of living together...</p>

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No Gravity

FILM France 2011 · 59 min
Silvia Casalino

<p>I have always wanted to explore inaccessible and dangerous places. As a child, I dreamed of going to space. I often heard that it was a man&#39;s job, that I shouldn&#39;t dream. I refused this determinism, became an aerospace engineer, built rockets, applied to be an astronaut, started training, and was rejected.</p>

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Objets Dans Le Temps (Objects in Time)

FILM France 2012 · 14 min
Boris Nicot

<p>Video creation workshop designed and led by filmmaker Boris NICOT as part of the Cin&eacute;sciences workshops offered by the Polly Maggoo association, in collaboration with 10th-grade students from P&eacute;rier High School (Marseille) and archaeologists from the Camille Jullian Mediterranean Archaeology Center in Aix-en-Provence (MMSH).</p>

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Monsieur M, 1968

FILM France 2011 · 55 min
Isabelle Berteletti Laurent Cibien

<p>A documentary and musical essay based on a diary found by chance: the year 1968 of an old bachelor, living in Montreuil, working at the National Geographic Institute. Between television and muffled echoes of a revolt, a reflection on order and disorder.</p>

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L’ultime Particule

FILM France 2002 · 58 min
Michel Andrieu

<p>Since Democritus, the knowledge of the ultimate constituents of matter has always been at the heart of philosophers&#39; and scientists&#39; concerns. From Fermilab in the United States to CERN in Geneva, passing through the Mus&eacute;e des Arts et M&eacute;tiers in Paris, the director conducts an investigation into the origins and stakes of this research.</p>

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L’attirance Comme Un Aimant

FILM France 2012 · 3 min
Pilar Arcila

<p>A film made as part of the Cin&eacute;sciences workshops offered by the Polly Maggoo association in collaboration with St Vincent de Paul High School (Marseille). It was created by the 3rd-year professional discovery students, guided by filmmaker Pilar Arcila and in collaboration with physicist Ricardo Lima.</p>

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Détail – Roman Opalka

FILM France 1986 · 25 min
Christophe Loizillon

<p>The film takes place on a November day in 1986, when Opalka painted the number 4,000,000 on one of his canvases. It offers an insight into the world of a contemporary artist whose work is a symbolic representation of time.</p>

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The Observers (2011)

FILM USA 2011 · 67 min
Jacqueline Goss

<p>With mysterious gestures, a woman records the temperature and wind speed under extreme conditions. Day after day, influenced by the weather and the seasons, this magnificent scenery reveals itself in new ways. A contemplative film that invites us, not without humor, into a true visual and auditory experience.</p>

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The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

FILM United States 1965 · 10 min
Chuck Jones Maurice Noble

<p>In&nbsp;1965,&nbsp;famed&nbsp;animator&nbsp;Chuck&nbsp;Jones&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;MGM&nbsp;Animation/Visual&nbsp;Arts&nbsp;studio&nbsp;adapted&nbsp;&quot;The&nbsp;Dot&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;Line&quot;&nbsp;intoa&nbsp;10-minute&nbsp;animated&nbsp;short&nbsp;film&nbsp;for&nbsp;Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,&nbsp;narrated&nbsp;by&nbsp;Robert&nbsp;Morley. &quot;The&nbsp;Dot&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;Line&quot;&nbsp;won&nbsp;the1965&nbsp;Academy&nbsp;Award&nbsp;for&nbsp;Animated&nbsp;Short&nbsp;Film.&nbsp;Five&nbsp;years&nbsp;later,&nbsp;Jones&nbsp;turned&nbsp;another&nbsp;Juster&nbsp;book&nbsp;into&nbsp;an&nbsp;animatedfeature&nbsp;film, &quot;<a href="https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/2310179">The&nbsp;Phantom&nbsp;Tollbooth</a>&quot;.</p> <p>This&nbsp;is&nbsp;the&nbsp;anguished&nbsp;tale&nbsp;of&nbsp;a&nbsp;sensible&nbsp;straight&nbsp;line&nbsp;who&nbsp;falls&nbsp;in&nbsp;love&nbsp;with&nbsp;a&nbsp;<a href="https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/320193">dot</a>.&nbsp;The&nbsp;dot,&nbsp;however,&nbsp;finding&nbsp;the&nbsp;line&nbsp;stiff,&nbsp;dull,&nbsp;and&nbsp;conventional,&nbsp;turns&nbsp;her&nbsp;affections&nbsp;toward&nbsp;a&nbsp;wild&nbsp;and&nbsp;unkempt&nbsp;squiggle.&nbsp;Though&nbsp;dejected,&nbsp;the&nbsp;line&nbsp;was&nbsp;notwithout&nbsp;determination,&nbsp;and,&nbsp;after&nbsp;much&nbsp;concentration,&nbsp;managed&nbsp;to&nbsp;bend&nbsp;himself,&nbsp;giving&nbsp;rise&nbsp;to&nbsp;shapes&nbsp;so&nbsp;complex&nbsp;hehad&nbsp;to&nbsp;letter&nbsp;his&nbsp;sides&nbsp;and&nbsp;angles&nbsp;to&nbsp;keep&nbsp;his&nbsp;place.&nbsp;Before&nbsp;long&nbsp;he&nbsp;was&nbsp;able&nbsp;to&nbsp;express&nbsp;himself&nbsp;in&nbsp;any&nbsp;shape&nbsp;hewished,&nbsp;from&nbsp;helices&nbsp;to&nbsp;spider&nbsp;webs&nbsp;to&nbsp;Paul&nbsp;Klee&#39;s&nbsp;little&nbsp;jester.&nbsp;Overwhelmed&nbsp;by&nbsp;the&nbsp;line&#39;s&nbsp;geometric&nbsp;contortionisticprowess,&nbsp;the&nbsp;dot&nbsp;realized&nbsp;that&nbsp;what&nbsp;she&nbsp;had&nbsp;seen&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;squiggle&nbsp;to&nbsp;be&nbsp;freedom&nbsp;and&nbsp;joy&nbsp;was&nbsp;nothing&nbsp;more&nbsp;than&nbsp;chaosand&nbsp;sloth.Thence,&nbsp;the&nbsp;line&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;dot&nbsp;lived&nbsp;&quot;if&nbsp;not&nbsp;happily&nbsp;ever&nbsp;after,&nbsp;at&nbsp;least&nbsp;reasonably&nbsp;so.&quot;&nbsp;The&nbsp;story&nbsp;ends&nbsp;with&nbsp;apunning&nbsp;moral:&nbsp;&quot;To&nbsp;the&nbsp;vector&nbsp;belong&nbsp;the&nbsp;spoils.&quot;</p>