001 // Syndromes and a Century
Apichatpong Weerasethakul // Thaïlande // 2006
// 105 min // Couleur // 1,85:1
In Thailand, in a country hospital, Dr Toey, a young physician, does not respond to the timid advances of a colleague. To comfort him, she tells him of her own unrequited love for a florist, an orchid specialist. In Thailand, in a sophisticated urban hospital, Toey faces the advances of the same enamored colleague. History and the film seem to repeat themselves, and yet... Introduction...
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002 // Images of the World and the Inscription of War // Respite
Harun Farocki // Allemagne // 1988 et 2007
// 75 et 40 min // Couleur // 4:3 et 16:9
"One must be as wary of images as of words. Images and words are woven into discourses, networks of meanings. My path is to go in search of a buried meaning, to clear the debris that clog the images." Harun Farocki INTRODUCTION In Images of the World and the Inscription of War and Respite , Harun Farocki ponders two sets of images of the Holocaust and makes them readable by way of two...
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003 // David Holzman's Diary // My Girlfriend's Wedding
Jim McBride // États-Unis // 1967
// 74 min // Noir et blanc // 1:33
The better to understand his life, and because, according to Godard "cinema is truth 24 times per second", David Holzman, a trainee filmmaker in the New York of the 1960s, starts a film diary. To see the film of his life will perhaps enable him to grasp its meaning. But David Holzman will quickly understand that the ubiquity of the camera in his daily life is not without influence on the...
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004 // Black Harvest
Robin Anderson & Bob Connolly // Australie // 1992
// 90 min // Couleur // 1:33
"As with a great book, we find what is at the core of humanity since Cain and Abel. Greed, jealousy, lust for power." Catherine Humblot / / Le Monde "A documentary event of extraordinary resonance." Stephen Holden / / New York Times Cinéma du Réel // Grand Prix 1992 Best Documentary // Australian Film Institute Awards 1992 Sundance Festival// Official Selection 1993 ...
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005 // Summer of Giacomo
Alessandro Comodin // Italie // 2011
// 78 min // Couleur // 1,85:1
It's summertime in the countryside of North-East Italy. Giacomo is a nineteen-year-old deaf boy. One day with Stefania, a friend from childhood, they go to the river to have a picnic. The two youths wander so far from the trodden paths that they finally get lost. They find themselves alone and free during an afternoon that could last the entire summer. Sensuality intermingles with their...
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News
Our new film Neighbouring Sounds will be screened this saturday April 20 in Paris at L'Arlequin (Brazilian Cinema Festival).
Our film Kelly has won the Youth Prize at Cinema du Reel !
Dates et horaires des séances de Kelly au Cinéma du Réel, compétition française : samedi 23 mars, 15h30 (Centre Pompidou, Cinéma 1), dimanche 24 mars, 18h15 (Centre Pompidou, Cinéma 2), lundi 25 mars, 14h (Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles).
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De McBride à Joseph Morder
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Weekend at the beach...
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A l'occasion de la sortie en salles du Journal de David Holzman, Jim McBride revient sur son film réalisé il y a près de 45 ans.
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