Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris
26e édition
Compétition

Yuri Yefanov

Antoni Orlof

Filip Markovinović

Martín Baus

Nataliya Ilchuk

Veli Granö and Milja Viita

Arthur Chopin

Azar Saiyar

Inès Sieulle

Vicky Smith

Luca Sorgato

TRIPOT

Marylène Negro and Nicolas Losson

Amanda VanValkenburg

Annik Leroy and Julie Morel

Celeste Rojas Mugica

Chloë Delanghe and Mattijs Driesen

Cecilia Araneda

Gernot Wieland

Samuel Mariani

Neritan Zinxhiria

Bea Mariano

Suhan Lalettayin

David Matarasso

Slawomir Milewski

Lucien Pin

Ferdinand Ledoux and Asalaus

Jean-Paul Dupuis

Kim Ji-hwan

Zuza Banasińska

Pénélope Martin

Guillaume Anglard

Patrick Bokanowski

Ana María Ferro Gomez

Erik Sémashkin

Arne Körner

Félix Fattal

Nicolas Graux and Quý Trương Minh

Occitane Lacurie

Patricia Werneck Ribas

Calypso Debrot

Martin Bas

Amir Hossein Javaheri
25e édition
Compétition

Carolina Magnin and Diego Voloschin

Josh Weissbach

Erwan Tracol

Jacques Perconte

Ewan GOLDER and Kate BEAUGIÉ

Nour Ouayda

Niina Suominen

Maxime Jean-Baptiste

Louise Bourque

Lionel Soukaz and Stéphane Gérard

Bram Ruiter

Chloé Galibert-Laîné

Gao Wei

Solomon Nagler

Sam Drake

Sebastian Eklund

Karel Doing

Azar Saiyar

Krunoslav Ptičar

Oleksandr Stoianov

Christopher Tym

Better Lovers and Hsin-Yu Chen

Aurélie Percevault

Joseph Wilcox

Charles Cadic

Alessia Lupo Cecchet

Pierre voland

Andrew Deveaux

a. laurel lawrence

M. Woods

Joris Guibert

Davor Sanvincenti

Gernot Wieland
24e édition
2021
Interventions
Jean-Pierre Ceton
Raphaël Bassan
Absis & Judit Naranjo Ribó
Cécile Ravel
Érik Bullot
Collective
Frédéric Tachou
Théo Deliyannis
Gauthier Beaucourt
Michel Amarger

Théo Deliyannis
Stéphane Marti
22e édition
Interventions
de Manon Him-Aquilli
animée par Théo Deliyannis le 22 juin 2020 à 15:30
de Marie Sochor
de Marc Plas
Martine Boyer, Présidente de l’association Patrice Enard
de Clint Enns, 2015
de Frédéric Tachou
de Raphaël Bassan
20e édition
Competition

Derek Woolfenden

Doplgenger

Emmanuel Piton

Solomon Nagler

Roger Deutsch

Davorin Marc

Alexander Isaenko

Beny Wagner

Olivier de Bree

Stefano Miraglia

Robert Todd

Ignacio Tamarit

Tinne Zenner

Juha van Ingen

Ben Pointeker

Marina Fomenko

Dimitri Venkov

Anaïs Tohé Commaret

Lana Z Caplan

Josh Weissbach

Michael Robinson

David Gómez Alzate

Louis Mème

Simon Liu

Distruktur

Lou Rambert Preiss

Allan Brown

Marian Mayland

Nikita Diakur

Simon Rieth

yann beauvais

Fakhri El Ghezal

Igor & Ivan Buharov

Maki Satake

Noémi Aubry, Alida Aubry, Léo Aubry and Manuel Aubry

Michael Wawzenek

Leyla Rodriguez

Rafaon Pella

Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt

Elisa Celda and Gabriel Ruiz-Larrea

Cecilia Araneda

Naween Noppakun
Interventions
19e édition
2016
17e édition
27th edition
Competition
Competition #1 - Accidental Strolling

Scott Barley

Katharina Bayer

Richard Tuohy and Diana Barrie

Ella Berke

Tom Faber

Elyse Johnson

Yannis Briki

Dariya Kanti

Jacques Sorrentini Zibjan
Competition #2 - Look around, all is text

Lily Petiot

Guilherme Peters, Matias Mariani and Roberto Winter

Marion Balac

Felix Klee and Leila Fatima Keita

Evi Stamou
Competition #3 - Breaking codes

Valentin Sismann

Nicolas Gebbe

Josef Dabernig

Malaz Usta

Massimiliano Marianni

Vicky Smith

Zachary Epcar
Competition #4 - Lark mirrors

Anna Malina Zemlianski

Julian Konuk

a. laurel lawrence

Karin Fisslthaler

Mahda Purmehdi

Arina Adju

Caharin Caparó
Competition #5 - Murky Bodies

Hogan Seidel

Irina Tempea

Josh Weissbach

Martín André and Gael Jara

Guillaume Vallée

Pierre Artieres-Glissant

Helena Gouveia Monteiro

Charles-André Coderre

Sarah Bliss
Competition #6 - Roots

Andrés Felipe Zuluaga and Wilder Alzate

Pedro Paulo Araujo

Jesed Moreno

Juyi Mao

Karel Doing

Camille Simon Baudry

Yen Lim

Louise Guégan
Focus
Focus #1 - BRAINROT

Sub Net

Neozoon

Suhan Lalettayin

Ethel Lilienfeld

Gwenola Wagon & Stephane Degoutin

Daniel Felstead

Jon Rafman
Focus #2 - As Above, So Below
Focus #3 - Is This What You Were Born For?
Rarely screened all together in a single screening, the seven parts of Is This What You Were Born For? (1981-1989) by Abigail Child, pioneering New York experimental feminist and queer filmmaker and poet, unfold as a polyphonic, cross-hatched investigation into the ways in which contemporary life is inscribed in the body, especially the female body: how posture, movement and even desire are choreographed by the omnipresent influence of media and machines. The films place bodies in shifting landscapes - public and private, intimate and industrial - where they become speakers, workers and lovers, but always under pressure, always in jeopardy. Thisjeopardy (a word Child often uses to describe his work) stems not from a single source, but from the incessant interplay between social conventions, technological devices and cultural fictions so deeply entrenched that they present themselves as natural.
Drawing on an editing practice that extends William Burroughs’ cut-up methods, Child composes his films from fragments - found images, staged performances, home movies, industrial scenes - juxtaposed and displaced in both sound and image. The cuts emerge like unexpected encounters: images and sounds collide, often chaotically, dissonantly. These disjunctions reject the fluid continuity of conventional cinema, replacing it with a network of contradictions, crossings and overlaps. Viewers are torn between attention and disorientation, obliged to chart their own course. Child’s montage also insists on the visibility of the construction: it shows the seams and refuses the too-easy closure of meaning.
The result is a work that dances on the fault line between “the human will to persist” and the cultural machinery that seeks to choreograph it - a work that asks whether what we are “born to do” has not already been written for us.

Abigail Child

Abigail Child

Abigail Child

Abigail Child

Abigail Child

Abigail Child

Abigail Child
Focus #4 - « Fog makes revolt possible »
Between hijacking and biometric hacking, the films in this session blur the lines of individual surveillance by attempting to make faces - or their absence - our weapons.
From the silence of a clinical inspection of contemporary suburbs to the observation of menstrual cycles via the telephone, a new kind of horrific film takes shape, where control is total.
They also bear witness to the stagnant normalization of collective surveillance, a state trap that feeds a protean, faceless fear of the “other”.
In Selfie, the body is also probed, but the surveillance can be reversed! If “No one is safe in a police state”, let’s keep trying to infiltrate these technologies to thwart the gaze that squares us.
Focus #5 - Hacking the past and the present
The fifth Focus programme celebrates hackers, artivists, rebels, innovators in the field of video and new media. It gathers historical works which creatively and critically engage with media technologies, revealing their often hidden, material and ideological, dimensions.
From pioneer experimentations with analog video signal (Woody Vasulka, Dan Sandin), subversions of live TV broadcast (Richard Serra), artivist implementations of early computer graphics (Dana Plepys, Barbara Hammer), explorations of computer games as political and social tools (Gun Holmström) to whimsical commentary of internet censorship made in primitive code (Clint Enns) – these works rebel against the standardized use of technology, they open it, dissect it, make visible its internal functioning and invite us to do the same.
They belong to, what film scholar Nicole Brenez called, a larger counter-history of technical disobedience – a history of avant-garde dissidents who refused to play by the industry rules.
However ! Quoting a notable free software activist Richard Stallman, we should not forget the spirit of playful cleverness that defines the hacking activity. Thus, after the screening, Lyon-based artist Ralt144MI will immerse us in the depths of the computer software in his lively audiovisual performance, where the joyful magic of algorithms is liberated and freely shared with the audience. Have fun and enjoy !

Aldo Tambellini

Woody Vasulka

Richard Serra

Dan Sandin

Dana Plepys

Barbara Hammer

Gun Holmström

Clint Enns
Young filmmakers

Enzo Bougchiche

Atelier Film Flamme

Rose Perdriel

Rose Perdriel

Gabriel Cuny

Wanda Chouadra

Josh Weissbach and Samay Bafana

Josh Weissbach and Frank Aca

Karolina Véziès

Israel Irby
Young Audiences

Jacques Perconte

Sabrina Ratté

Connor

Laurent Mathieu

Patrick Bokanowski

Salise Hughes

Erik Sémashkin

Clint Enns