The Collectif Jeune Cinema offers a screening open to all at the Université Paris 8 screening room.
Based on three programs: “La Chimère”, “L’image immolée” and “What’s your flavor?”, the Collectif presents its catalog in all its diversity.
Part 1 - The Chimera or the body in power
Whether it refers to an imaginary creature or simply an illusion, the chimera seems representative of experimental cinema’s ability to redefine the body on screen and grant it new powers and materialities. In this program, the digital alteration of the image and costumed actorial performances situate the films as spaces conducive to the dissection and restructuring of the body. In the background of this Frankensteinian laboratory, various questions are raised about the way in which we consider and inhabit our own bodies, and how these relate to a cosmos in constant metamorphosis.
Hello World/>, Oleksandr Isaienko, 2020, 8’30”, digital/color/sound, Ukraine
Taxidermisez-moi, Marie Losier, 2021, 11’06”, 16mm/digital/color/sound, France
Optimistic Cover, Leyla Rodriguez, 2015, 4’30”, video/digital/color/sound, Argentina
Part 2 - The immolated image
Considered as an alchemical practice, cinema deploys the full extent of its plastic powers by transmuting matter to exalt the primitive forces buried within the image. Through chemical attack on celluloid or digital compression, colors fuse, devouring and dissolving figures in a fiery magma. Chromatic combustion leads to an intense hypnotic experience: the eye burns, the screen ignites, the world is rendered incandescent.
Uishet, Jacques Perconte, 2007, 13’00”, Mini DV/digital/color/ sound, France
Hypnagogia, Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt, 2018, 5’35”, digital/color/sound, Canada
Embers from yesterday, aflame, William Wei Hong-Xiao, 2022, 10’00, digital/NB/Color/sound, UK
Part 3 - What’s Your flavor?
Bodies in perpetual metamorphosis, fragmented identities, desires seeping between pixels. The margins of a forgotten erotic magazine, the drowned reflections of a solitary webcam, the wanderings of a haunted, abstruse “I”: images collide, merge. A transmasc fly brings her lover to orgasm in a dirty bar, while cam2cam sites slowly consume themselves in boredom and sex. Queer presences overlap, fragment and claim their opacity. Everywhere, matter twists and transforms, as do the existences that populate it.
Flyhole, Malic Amalya, 2017, 5’50”, 16mm/digital/NB/sound,USA
CoNEC, Eden Tinto Collins, 2019, 12’00, video/digital/color/sound, France
Face à face dans la nuit, Loic Hobi, 2019, 7’00”, digital/color/sound, France
