Programme Paris
Vendredi 22 novembre 2024

Une œuvre d’animation de synthèse s’inscrivant dans une série d'œuvres contemplatives et portant sur l’archéologie des intérieurs. Cette œuvre pose un regard archéologique et architectural sur une ère théâtrale de la décoration intérieure. Exposant une tension fictionnelle presque non-résolue entre, d’un côté, le confort moderne construit et édifié par l’économie tonitruante et, d’un autre, la menace sourde de la nature, du climat changeant et de leurs forces cataclysmiques sous-entendues. Une première rencontre des collages faits main de St-Pierre et des images de synthèse créées en duo avec Gauthier. Cette œuvre a été produite grâce au soutien du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec et du Grand Théâtre de Québec (Canada) pour une présentation au Studio Telus du Grand Théâtre de Québec (commissariat : Ariane Plante).

Philippe-Aubert Gauthier est ingénieur mécanique, maître ès sciences, docteur en génie mécanique (acoustique) et professeur à l'Université du Québec à Montréal, à l'École des arts visuels et médiatiques. Il travaille à la croisée des arts, sciences et technologies. Il a produit plus d'une cinquantaine d'œuvres en arts sonores et numériques. Gauthier est actuellement directeur associé du Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music, Media and Technology. Tanya St-Pierre est artiste en arts visuels, sonores et médiatiques. Elle explore les relations possibles entre arts visuels ou médiatiques et narration. À travers divers systèmes d'altération de la narration en propositions poétiques et conceptuelles, elle déjoue et questionne les notions de représentation et d’artefacts culturels. Détentrice d’un baccalauréat en arts plastiques de l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, (Québec). Depuis 2003, leurs démarches se rencontrent dans des projets collaboratifs. Leurs intérêts et engagements respectifs sont abordés dans des échanges découlant vers des propositions artistiques hybrides qui résultent de joutes autocritiques et d'inventions en duo. Leur travail fut présenté au Canada, aux États-Unis, au Mexique, en Europe et au Japon. Tous les deux vivent et travaillent actuellement à Montréal, au Québec (Canada).

Four communist agitators return from a successful mission in China to Moscow and are congratulated for their efforts by the Central Committee (The Control Chorus.) The four agitators, however, inform the committee that during their mission they were forced to kill a young comrade for their mission to succeed. The committee withholds its verdict until after the four agitators re-enact the events that led to the young comrade’s death. The agitators tell of how they were sent on a mission to educate and help organize the workers in China. The director of the party house (the last before the frontier) helps the four agitators and the young comrade in the obliteration of their true identities. They are told to keep concealed that they are communist, for their discovery would endanger the mission and their lives. However, once in China, the sights of injustice and oppression enrages the young comrade on several occasions, when he is time and time again not able to contain his passion, immediately acting to correct the wrongs he sees around him. As a result, he eventually exposes himself and proclaiming the teachings of the party. There, the agitators debate on what to do with him.

Can Kurucu is a filmmaker and artist focused on the sphere of the political image and its consequences. Can's work provides an insight into how digital images are made and what they represent, exploring the political and scientific elements that shape them, and reflecting on the image-making process and the deeper meanings behind the images within these broader contexts. Mariam Aslanishvili is an artist, photographer, and musician based in Berlin. Her artistic practice revolves around the exploration of human perception and the construction of realities, with a particular focus on translating personal experiences into the language of experimental cinema. Jack Hogan is a filmmaker from Waterford, Ireland. Their work focuses on the rich sociality of everyday life, foregrounding friendship and what constitutes good shared lives and places. Matthias Planitzer is a visual artist and doctor who explores scientific and political visual spheres and how they are rooted in their contexts.

In the GDR Opposition Archive in Berlin, Anna Zett traces known and unknown fears of her childhood. The artist interweaves samizdat and archival footage with a stirring collage of underground music from the late GDR (composed by Matti Gajek). Video recordings by activists from the Environmental Library, the New Forum and the punk scene in East Berlin, fragments of the televised revolution, and highly condensed voices from a poetry cassette recorded in 1986 combine to create an associative and intimate narrative. In ceaseless escalation, the archive thriller leads to the second occupation of the Berlin Stasi headquarters with hunger strike in September 1990 – a political event that is barely known today despite its far-reaching consequences. There is fear. There is anger. There are people who, despite profound experiences of violence, insist on emotional connection and political self-determination. The short film ES GIBT KEINE ANGST opens up a pulsating resonance space that keeps vibrating long after.

Anna Zett is a Berlin-based artist and writer. Rooted in poetry, collage and improvisation, their transmedia practice seeks to host, witness and experience new connections at sites of loss and damage. This work results in films, books, radio plays, installations and live-formats, most recently f.ex. the participatory research ‚Postsocialist Group Improvisation‘. Since their first film release in 2014, Zetts work has been shown in international contexts of contemporary art, film, performance and discourse, such as Berlinale Forum Expanded, Serpentine Gallery London, Whitney Museum New York, Berlinische Galerie, Or Gallery Vancouver, HKW Berlin. Zetts publications include two experimental radio plays for the German public broadcast and the literary text collection ‚Artificial Gut Feeling‘ (Divided Publishing, 2019). Since 2024 Anna Zett co-teaches the class for Performative Arts at HGB Leipzig.

The soldier's mind was a turbulent sea of anxiety and resolve as he arrived at the abandoned battle camp, where the hasty departure of others left him grappling with solitude and the weight of his duty.

Lin Htet Aung is a 98 born self-learned filmmaker and time based media artist based in Myanmar. In his earlier days, he wrote avant-garde poems and published underground poetry books. He started making short films in 2017.His short films have been selected and awarded at several international film festivals including International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Ruang Rantau Exhibition (United States) and so on. He is a directing fellow of the 2023 CHANEL X BIFF Asian Film Academy, a Prince Claus Seed Awardee 2023, and a participant of Locarno Filmmakers Academy 2024.He is now developing his debut feature project “Making A Sea” which got the Asian Cinema Fund ACF for Script Development from Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) 2024 and won the Fellowship Prize at the Southeast Asian Film Lab at SGIFF 2023.

No flickering. No noise. No artefacts. No hard lights that cast shadows. No fog, clouds, trees or buildings. No conditions of slow-moving or stopped people for long periods. No moving objects whose appearance is similar to the target in the areas of interest. No waving objects that cause the continuous modification of the image in the area of interest, for example a meadow with tall grass. The target must have a minimum height of 30 pixels, which is at least 1/10 of the image height. The body of the target must be visible for at least 3/4 of its height. The target must have a minimum area of 100 pixels and stay in the interested area for a time of at least 1 second. The target must also maintain a sufficient dissimilarity from the background, which means at least a colour difference of 5% or a brightness difference of 10%. The image must have a resolution of 640x360, 640x480, 320x180 or 320x240 pixels and must be in landscape orientation with 16:9 aspect ratio. The camera must be mounted at a height between 3 and 5 metres and the camera lens must not be dirty, wet or steamy. The accuracy to be expected is under ideal environmental and installation conditions. Recall: 95%

Utkarsh is a filmmaker and writer from Delhi, India.