RISC - 3rd edition

Le Sel De La Terre (The Salt of the Earth) (2008)

Bernard Surugue

<p>For decades, a phenomenon of soil salinization has severely affected the rice fields of northeastern Thailand. The food supply for millions of inhabitants is jeopardized by the &quot;salt of the earth.&quot; To combat this scourge, which eats away at crops like leprosy and endangers impoverished village communities, Thai authorities have brought together soil scientists in a Franco-Thai research program. These experts have set up a true field laboratory in the heart of the rice fields. By sharing their knowledge with the scientists, the farmers open the door to a better life, preserving and enhancing their most sacred heritage: rice.</p>

Sol-air (2008)

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<p>Sol-air reflects on modern agriculture, starting from the observation that it endangers both the environment and humanity&#39;s future. Claude Bourguignon, a soil microbiologist, explains the current state of soils in France and makes the following remark: &quot;We have managed to invent floods during dry periods...&quot;</p>

Le Delta D’aedes (The Aedes Delta)

Benoît Demarle

<p>The large-scale mosquito control of the Mediterranean coast began in the 1960s. It was the sine qua non condition for the tourism and industrial development of the coastline. The Camargue, already recognized for its natural heritage and designated a &quot;green break,&quot; was spared from insecticides. However, in 2006, the first mosquito control trials took place within the very boundaries of the Regional Natural Park.</p>

La Revendication D’un Regard (The claim of a look)

Natacha Cyrulnik

<p>Following nine years of audiovisual awareness efforts with the residents of the Berthe housing estate in La Seyne-sur-Mer, the film explores the relationship that teenagers from this neighborhood develop with cinema and, in turn, the perspective that filmmakers have on them. From the reflections of the Berthe residents emerges a dialogue about the power of images, particularly their role in shaping identity.</p>

Regards D’adolescents Sur La Shoah (Adolescents Views On The Holocaust) (2006)

Olivier Foucher

<p>Guided by their history teachers, teenagers from a middle school in Aubagne are confronted with the reality of the death camps. They share their thoughts, doubts, and questions about the society around them, both before and after the trip. Moving beyond the historical framework, this film adds a poignant dimension to the issues of memory and transmission.</p>

La Cicatrice (The Scar)

Sophie Goudjil

<p>One day, I learned that I didn&rsquo;t have a uterus&hellip; I was 16 years old.</p>

Die Missglueckte Jugendzeit (La Jeunesse Ratée) (The Missed Youth)

Roland Fuhrmann

<p>The needle touches down on the gramophone, and the sound of a melancholic trumpet fills the air. On screen, family photos from the 1930s appear. A woman&#39;s laughter blends with the trumpet&#39;s melody, followed by the laughter of those who have nothing left to lose... All the photos were taken by my grandfather, who destroyed them at the end of the war. With the negatives recently discovered, I created this film using a gramophone record from my grandfather&#39;s collection.</p>

L’innocence (2008)

Adrien Charmot

<p>Two victims of a pedophile share their stories, remember, and reflect. One of them also questions their parents and a friend, seeking to understand... how to forget, how to tell the story once more, and then finally forget?</p>

Jacques Testart

Michel Burnier

<p>Jacques Testart lays out the stakes of biology and genetics at the dawn of artificial procreation. The ideas most people have about it are shown to be vague, questionable, or even completely false. Confronting widespread misconceptions, Testart sets the record straight with some fundamental truths.</p>

Cherche Toujours

Mathias Théry Étienne Chaillou

<p>How can disorder be best characterized? Why is the oyster iridescent? Why does h not equal lambda? Why does it sing? Where does the shape of leaves come from? And why doesn&rsquo;t it sing here? Why is what&rsquo;s underneath always better than what&rsquo;s beside? How does a cart work? And the tatamis, what are they for? Is it possible to write an article without proof? Why should we never be pedagogical? Why can&rsquo;t I work? Why should you take photos at the Jardin des Plantes? And why does a researcher research?<br /> These questions seem to explore the mysteries of life, science, and the human experience with curiosity and a touch of irony. They suggest a deeper contemplation of knowledge, perception, and the process of inquiry, each one hinting at complexities that provoke thought and reflection.</p>

Tara, Voyage Au Cœur De La Machine Climatique

Emmanuel Roblin Thierry Ragobert

<p>September 2006. The polar schooner Tara begins an extraordinary journey across the Arctic Ocean. Once the boat is anchored on the ice floe north of Siberia, the researchers of the European Damocl&egrave;s program seek to answer a vital question for the future of the planet&#39;s climate: can the Arctic ice cap ever disappear? What would be the consequences of the melting ice in this region, considered the heart of the climate machine? Climatologists have long sounded the alarm: all simulations predict the complete disappearance of ice in the Arctic Ocean during the summer. The only remaining question is when.</p>

Test (2008)

Vincent Boujon

<p>The HIV screening test is a difficult moment, a moment of truth and reality. Beyond the biological act, the test provides insight into sexual practices and their representations. For three months, Vincent Boujon collected testimonies at the H&ocirc;tel-Dieu testing center in Lyon.</p>

Anticipation (2007)

Johanna Vaude

<p>Like a nightmare, the film evokes alienation, confusion, and paranoia, where the human being struggles to resist the scenario of a dehumanized society (genetic manipulation, repressive control system). Created from archival footage found on the internet and video games, the film is accompanied by music from science fiction films.</p>

Les Explorateurs Du Cerveau

Muriel Coulin

<p>Through touching individual stories, epileptic patients share their daily lives. Their seizures, unpredictable and overwhelming for those around them, isolate them and prevent them from leading a normal social and professional life. At the Timone Hospital in Marseille, a team of neurosurgeons and researchers, deeply committed to their work, welcomes these individuals into a multidisciplinary care program supported by cutting-edge technology.</p>

Marks… Holes

Henry Gwiazda

<p>The film deals with the traces we leave on Earth, and how this transforms our understanding of the environment, and what it reveals about us. Formally, the film focuses on the relationship between sound and images in a non-narrative context: how to combine the two into an abstract whole to create something greater than each separately. The images are edited musically, following the counterpoint and phrasing of the music.</p>

Ice People (2004)

Anne Aghion

<p>Anne Aghion spent four months in Antarctica, &quot;on the ice,&quot; with these modern-day explorers, to uncover what drives these researchers, geologists, to leave the world behind and dedicate themselves to science, enduring the living and working conditions in this extreme environment.</p>

Aventure Cérébrale (2008)

John Deneuve

<p>A candidate applies for a job. The recruiter offers them the chance to take the Brain Adventure test. The results are processed by software, which transposes their values through an analytical grid. These recruitment tests, inspired by the works of C. G. Jung, are based on serious studies conducted in collaboration with long-term unemployed individuals. Let us not forget that an individual&#39;s success is more linked to their emotional potential than to their intellectual quotient...</p>

Dominium Mundi, L’empire Du Management

Gérald Caillat

<p>Management has become the jewel of the industrial and communicative West. Now applied to business, the term has turned into a doctrine, a propaganda, the idea box of the new globalization. Management is a &quot;soft empire,&quot; and that is its strength, with the feel of a &quot;dictatorship without a dictator,&quot; whose watchwords (&quot;organize, coordinate, command, control&quot;) have taken over the entire planet.</p>

Les Mathématiques En Mouvement

Florent Buffin Pierre Nicolas

<p>The prediction of movement has been a concern in the history of science. John Hubbard, a specialist in chaos theory, sheds light on the practical applications of contemporary research in this field.</p>

V1 (Tourbillons)

Christian Lebrat

<p>At night, during a violent storm in Venice, I decide to leave my room and take a walk along the canals. Instantly, my camera, held out at arm&#39;s length, turns towards the ripples in the water, the fantastic and ever-changing whirlpools on the water&#39;s surface. The storm intensifies, the city is almost deserted, with only a few lost souls wandering, unsure where to find refuge. I am fascinated by the power of the storm, though a little worried that the umbrella I&rsquo;m using for shelter might conduct the lightning surrounding me.</p>

Cyclo (2008)

Cécile Verstraeten

<p>A cyclist rides through a village, collecting compost from the residents to later transform it...</p>

Motion Studies (2008)

Fernanda D’agostino

<p>Motion Studies confronts the investigations of art and science. At the heart of the project are the motion studies currently conducted at Dr. Bret Tobalske&#39;s Flight Laboratory, first transcribed onto video in the lab, and then in the production studio.</p>

Coulée Douce (2007)

Ismail Bahri

<p>Coul&eacute;e douce showcases a fragile setup, combining water and sewing threads, woven into a staircase located in a textile factory. Through a slow drip, water flows along the threads, collected on site and unwound at a gentle incline. Transformed into a real piping system, the threads absorb the drops through capillarity, guiding their descent.</p>

Spirale (2008)

Julie Meyer

<p>Filmed from a low angle, a staircase is the subject of a long circular tracking shot. The sequence is edited into a loop that accelerates until the structure disappears. By using the form of a staircase, I aim to create tension between static architecture and its function of circulation and vertical movement. The spiral is the means of addressing the relationship between space, time, and movement.</p>

Trifter 1 (2008)

Rainer Gamsjäger

<p>A slow tracking shot along a forest. Above fallen trunks, a tangle of roots and dead branches, a broken ground, and dry grasses, tall conifers rise, structuring the space into impenetrable depths. This appearance of naturalism doesn&rsquo;t last long. Something feels off in the image, in the movement. Was there digital manipulation? The application of an artificial effect?</p>

Plasticité / Endommagement / Rupture

Tejerina Risso

<p>An aesthetic exploration of the plasticity of matter. Over time, the material flows, ignites, and breaks apart.</p>

Cicatrices (Résiliences)

Gabriel Gonnet

<p>Today a famous painter in Israel, Maurice-Mosh&eacute; lived through the war hidden with a family of farmers. Marianne, sexually abused during childhood, retraces the path she followed with us, reconnecting with the teacher who became a friend, and the family that finally welcomed her. S&eacute;bastien, after a bicycle accident, became a European handisport champion. Jorge, Toxos, and Julio, street children from Colombia, come to present a circus performance in France. Four life stories, four ways of living, or how resiliencies are woven together...</p>

Vauban, Lettres Ouvertes

Pierre Oscar Lévy

<p>Marshal Vauban is a historically significant figure who is, in truth, little known. An engineer and military officer, he quickly gained a reputation for capturing the cities besieged by King Louis XIV during summer campaigns. In winter, as an architect, he fortified the cities and citadels of the kingdom to make them impregnable. Taking advantage of these travels during his fifty years of service, Vauban was the only one to have a vision of France and its transformations during the reign of Louis XIV.</p>

D’assez Courtes Unités De Temps

Boris Nicot

<p>Five moments, marked by states of matter, reveal some marginal traces of human production and a few instances of animal condition. Five filmed locations, dominated by waste or degradation. Five sites, unsure if they succeed in forming a landscape, let alone creating a territory. Nonetheless, they are part of a geography, the Marseille region in France. Bringing them together is a way of organizing them, placing them between the Sistine Chapel, a garlic press, and the Ariane rocket, on Hegelian&rsquo;s shelf of great accomplishments of the mind.</p>

En Vérité (In Truth)

Isabelle Erchoff

<p>Are we what we dream? How can we reconcile imagination and reality? Jean-Luc, a friend, nostalgically recalls his schizophrenic delusions and shares his perspective on life.</p>

La Face Cachée De La Peur

Enrico Cerasuolo Sergio Fergnachino

<p>On September 11, 2001, New York became the epicenter of a new epidemic of anxiety and fear that quickly spread throughout the Western world. At the CNFA (Center for the Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety) in New York, new research attempts to understand the phenomenon of fear and how it spreads, from the media to the deepest corners of our brain.</p>

Concerto Mécanique Pour La Folie Ou La Folle Mécanomorphose

Éric Duvivier

<p>A very free and symbolic illustration of what can be called the alienation of man by his own production, the machine, which deprives him of the ability to distinguish between what is objective and what is subjective. Mechanized in turn, the human being seeks to escape this world that overwhelms him. The problem then arises of his difficult adaptation to the new technical situation created.</p>

Bubble Fish (2007)

Myriam Smyczynski

<p>A young woman is eating fish with her strange companion when she suddenly stops chewing...</p>

Thinking (2008)

Étienne André

<p>The wandering of a PhD student in computer science, a Chinese student in France, who was left alone one night working in his laboratory...</p>

Faceless (2007)

Manu Luksch

<p><span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;">FACELESS uses CCTV images obtained under the terms of the UK Data Protection Act as &lsquo;legal readymades&rsquo;, as instructed by the artist&rsquo;s&nbsp;</span><a style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: #ffffff; transition: color 150ms ease-in-out; font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" href="http://www.manuluksch.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/MANIFESTO-FINAL-poster_ENG.pdf">MANIFESTO for CCTV Filmmakers&nbsp;</a><span style="color: #7f7f7f; font-family: Nunito, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;">. Legislation requires that the privacy of other persons be protected when data is released &ndash; for CCTV recordings, this is typically done by obscuring their faces &ndash; hence, the faceless world. Narrated by TILDA SWINTON, this film was translated into nine languages and written about internationally. Further info: https://manuluksch.com/project/faceless/</span></p> <p>In a city controlled by an all-powerful automated state, a woman evades the law of surveillance cameras and escapes the system. Exclusively made from real footage provided by the controllers of the London surveillance system, Faceless is a highly relevant speculative fable, faithful to the classic codes of science fiction.</p>

Des Livres Et Des Cendres

Erika Thomas

<p>A woman is traumatized by a childhood memory of book burnings in a dictatorship. Every week, she goes to Sigmund Freud Street to post pages of her analysis. To break the silence of her therapy, she asks close ones to speak about the books she mentioned during her sessions.</p>

Pensées – Du Japon (Thoughts – from Japan)

Yann Kassile

<p>The narrator stays in Japan, travels across the country, observes how people live, and meets Japanese thinkers. He conducts interviews with them on the enduring questions of philosophy: what should one rely on in thought when deciding to truly think? What about the idea of progress? What can an individual refer to in order to make sense of their own existence?</p>

Ar(R)ête (2005)

Sylvain Blond Julien Cail Quentin Ricci

<p>The transformation of the ocean depths through the journey and perspective of a little clownfish&hellip;</p>

Le Grand Content

Clemens Kogler Karo Szmit

<p>At the film&acute;s very beginning the voice over, a man speaking in gently broken English, claims that the most important issues in life can be summed up with three words: how, why and what - three basic questions which are provably the most popular words in the autograph books of teenagers around the world. Teenagers themselves share a basic principle with coffee and the stock exchange: They&acute;re hot for a limited time only. A little more is required for eternity, most importantly time, which can be used to experience adventures of various degrees of intensity.<br /> <br /> The wild chains of associations set in motion by <strong>Le Grand Content</strong> are insidiously translated into the language of contemporary PowerPoint presentations: pie charts, graphs and tables. At the same time, very subtly, the connection between beer and self-confidence, and the ratio of (psychological) pain to (physical) scars is explored, as is the inner connection between solitary consumption of ice cream and an intense increase in self-disgust.<br /> <br /> <strong>Le Grand Content</strong> is a subversive undertaking: It demonstrates how systematically disorientation can take place, how logical nonsense can seem. The well-organized presentation, despite its authoritative appearance, does not at all ensure that it should be taken seriously. The persuasive power of the graphic deductions is precisely equal to their absurdity. The gently ringing music which plays throughout the film subtly emphasizes its underlying principle: the melancholy nature of the apparatus. <strong>Le Grand Content</strong> is a rare kind of work, brimming with dry humor, esthetic confidence and terse precision. For these reasons it has become a surprise hit on YouTube.com, the Web site for digital clips. With nearly half a million viewers, <strong>Le Grand Content</strong> could well be one of the most-watched Austrian films of the past few decades.<br /> <br /> <em>(Stefan Grissemann)</em></p>

Magnetic Movie

Semiconductor (Ruth Jarman Joe Gerhardt)

<p>The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields are revealed as chaotic ever-changing geometries . All action takes place around NASA&rsquo;s Space Sciences Laboratories, UC Berkeley, to recordings of space scientists describing their discoveries . Actual VLF audio recordings control the evolution of the fields as they delve into our inaudible surroundings, revealing recurrent &lsquo;whistlers&rsquo; produced by fleeting electrons . Are we observing a series of scientific experiments, the universe in flux, or a documentary of a fictional world?</p>

Primate Cinema: Baboons as Friends

Rachel Mayeri

<p>Primate Cinema is a series of video experiments that translate primate social dramas for human audiences. The first experiment, Baboons as Friends, is a two channel video installation juxtaposing field footage of baboons with a reenactment by human actors, shot in film noir style. A tale of lust, jealousy, sex, and violence transpires simultaneously in human and nonhuman worlds. Beastly males, instinctively attracted to a femme fatale, fight to win her, but most are doomed to fail. The story of sexual selection is presented across species, the dark genre of film noir re-mapping the savannah to the urban jungle.&nbsp;</p> <p>Created in collaboration with cognitive scientist, Deborah Forster, who shot the field footage of olive baboons in Kenya.</p> <p>Played by Camillia Sanes, Patrick Mulderrig, Randy Tobin, Shaun Madden, and Andrew Maxwell.</p>