Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris

Jean Pierre Ceton

Jean Pierre Ceton is a French writer born in 1950. He
met Marguerite Duras who dedicated to him the collection of texts Les Yeux verts published in Les Cahiers du cinéma in 1980.
Between 1975 and 1982 he directed several short films including Dis/ cours, Narcisso-métal, J’aimais encore cette vallée as well as two feature films: Quand je pense à Jacences and Fréquence perdue. He then devoted himself to writing and published a dozen novels including Rauque la ville (preface by Marguerite Duras), La Suive,
La Fiction d’Emmedée, Les Voyageurs modèles, Le pont d’Algeciras, L’Insatisfaction, Nouvelles du passé, and Le Petit roman de juilleten
2020

Around the end of the last century, he signed several articles in the newspaper Le Monde (including “Libérons la langue française” and “Voilà le temps venu de poser la question de l’Académie”). Present on social networks, he animates like a great book his web page jeanpierreceton.com and directs the online magazine Lettreaulecteur.com

Élodie Imbeau

After studying classical literature and social sciences, Élodie Imbeau began working at the Cinémathèque française as a programmer for young audiences, a position she has held since 2002. In addition to programming films, she also coordinates all kinds of practical workshops for young audiences to discover the cinema. She is particularly interested in pre-cinema and in 2006 wrote a book for children in the Atelier-Cinéma collection (Actes Sud/Cinémathèque française) devoted to magic lanterns.
In addition, she is a founding member of the association Braquage (association for the diffusion of experimental cinema), and producer of clips for the label Air Rytmo.

Lea Leïla Jiqqir

Lea Leïla Jiqqir is a Franco-Moroccan artist, video maker and musician-producer based in Nancy (FR).
Half-self-taught, half-graduated from the Fine Arts School of Nancy, her work explores the meanders of plural identities through questions of genealogy, of return to the roots… Between writing, video and sound, often on the edge of documentary, Lea Leïla Jiqqir draws her inspiration from her own quest for identity, from very particular origins and geography. Sliding little by little from these autobiographical questions towards more universal concerns, her work questions the multiple facets of immigration issues, including: mobility, transmission, oblivion, the violence associated with it, the deconstruction of past(s). Through the prism of introspection, intimate poetry and self-taught investigation, Lea Leïla Jiqqir’s work is constantly changing, unstable, between progression and digression.

Also a musician and producer, she is part of the Franco-Moroccan electro-psyche duo Taxi Kebab, while remaining involved in the field of event organization (visual arts, music).

Occitane Lacurie

Occitane Lacurie is a member of the editorial board of Débordements, co-producer of a podcast on the moving image and PhD student in visual studies. She works on the relationship between ghosts and technology through the prism of media archaeology.

Christian Lebrat

Christian Lebrat is an artist, filmmaker and photographer. He has made about twenty films, performances and installations as well as several videos. A DVD of his celluloid films, Vibrations, has been published by Re:Voir. His films are part of the Centre Pompidou collection and his video V1 (Tourbillons) is part of the FNAC (Fonds National d’Art Contemporain) collection. He created and manages the Paris Expérimental editions. He is the author of Cinéma radical (2008, 2nd expanded ed., in English, 2021) and co-author of Jeune, dure et pure! A History of Avant-Garde and Experimental Cinema in France (2001).

The festival team would like to thank all the members of the CJC who volunteered their time to make this edition possible.

The CJC also thanks for their participation, ideas, support and gestures

Camille Aubaude, Robinson Barbe, Gauthier Beaucourt, Loïc Blanchefleur, Lucie Bonnet, Benoît Dechaumont, Šejla Dukatar, Anne Enderlin (Lavoir Numérique), Christine Bressan- Bleijenberg, the team of the Cinémathèque de Toulouse, Martine Derain, Clémentine Mendy, Séverine Préhembaud, Adrien Von Nagel (Polygone Étoilé), Anastasia Eleftheriou (Forum des Images), the association Home Cinéma (La Clef Revival), Michèle Kastner, Carmen Leroi, Alain Lithaud, Jean Mascolo, Margot Merzouk (L’Archipel), Joseph Morder, La Poudrière (L’Etna), Jonathan Pouthier, Elena Sarnin, Lionel Soukaz, Richard Stencel (Le Studio), Lo Thivolle, Damien Truchot

A big thank you to all the filmmakers and artists who made this 23rd edition possible, as well as to the members of the juries, the programmers, the speakers, the authors of the articles in the catalog, and to all the guests.

The films of this edition are distributed by : Collectif Jeune Cinéma, Institut Français, Cinémathèque de Toulouse, Light Cone and by the filmmakers themselves.