SHORT FILM PROGRAM

Belgian and French artist Pascale Barret combines and distorts artistic practice with a heightened awareness that technology tends to transform our perception of ourselves and others. For the Festival du nouveau cinéma, she presents works drawn from her own filmography along with films directed by her contemporaries.

“Taking a reductive approach, she uses the computer interface to define the idea of the virtual or the state of possibility. The machinimas and videos with eclectic space-time realities and structures become contact points used to appropriate, simulate and reproduce territories. From the commonplace to the utopian, with some mockery thrown in, how can a poet find her place in these obstinately synthetic worlds?” - Pascale Barret

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Codes of Honor Jon Rafman Canada | 2011 | 14 min | vo anglaise

Free Fall Palle Torsson Suède | 2011 | 2:16 min | sans paroles

Hotel Episode Un Benjamin Nuel France | 2009 | 10 min | vo française

Diary of a Camper Unites rangers États-Unis | 1996 | 1:21 min | vo anglaise

Birch Cooper “I a was a Teacher” Brenna Murphy États-Unis | 2012 | 4:16 min | sans paroles

YingYYangYhuman Brenna Murphy États-Unis | 2011 | 1:15 min | sans paroles

Falling Iono allEn France | 2012 | 4 min | vo anglaise

In my room, Fenêtre Agnès de Cayeux France | 2005 | 13:08 min | vo française

Desert III Gregory Chatonsky Canada, France | 2011 | 16:20 min | vo anglaise et française

Unrelenting Physical Agression (action painting)? Jeremy Rotsztain Canada | 2011 | 4:27 min | vo anglaise

Sleepwind’s Levitation 1 Pascale Barret Belgique | 2009 | 5:47 min | vo anglaise

Sleepwind’s Levitation 2 Pascale Barret Belgique | 2012 | 5 min | vo anglaise

Winter is past Pascale Barret Belgique | 2012 | 10 min | vo anglaise

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This event takes place in the context of the cycle Virtually Sublime : a series of films, talks and performances on a serious, playful and up-to-the-minute possibility: the vertiginous absence of borders between reality and virtuality.