This Monkey… brings together humans and the rhesus monkey.
Secção: Special Screenings
The Drowning Room portrays an atmosphere that turns into liquid without people noticing the difference.
The Door Ajar accounts the arrival of poet Antonin Artaud to Ireland, with a sacred object to return to its rightful owners. Six weeks later he is arrested for trying to enter a religious house.
In Kennesaw, a small American town in the state of Georgia, a good citizen is an armed citizen. By law, since 1982, each head of household must own at least one working firearm with ammunition.
Here After is about empty apartments, absent of human life.
Hilda and Helena, two elderly from Lisbon, open for us a door into a world suspended in time, loneliness and abandonment. A portrait that is both sensitive and powerful that confronts us with a daily reality which is difficult to imagine still happening in Europe today.
Freeze was filmed in places of low temperatures – the Puolanka village in Finland and Kola peninsula, in Russia.
Fall is a film about boredom and places that look all the same, repeated and indistinct. Space deteriorates and the destruction of belongings brings a sense of relief, a catharsis.
With a restless spirit, heavy legs, a young man wanders in Lisbon, obsessed by the increasingly blurred image of a woman. Fighting against the loss of his memory, he wanders between reality and dreams.
Corridor is a reflection on anthropomorphism and the institutional nature of space.
Like a dream in the morning mist, a mighty ox emerges from the rain-soaked earth dragging the remnants of an old cart. A prisoner of its yoke, the great beast pulls its heavy load, which carries within it a greedy and angry nation of people‚Äîa hungry parasite that saps its energy and consumes its body and soul. An allegory of mankind heading for disaster, Bydlo is a tragic vision inspired by the fourth movement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Drawing on the composer’s brilliant ability to evoke work and labour in his music, Patrick Bouchard brings the earth to life through animated clay sculptures, creating a concrete and terrifying world, a tactile nightmare in which man is his own slave driver.
Burn is a video installation that shows the inside of a burning house and how the flames consume objects – the inside of a refrigerator, furniture – as its inhabitants remain unchanged, without panic or agitation. They sleep or read and a man puts out a small fire in his own clothes with a sandwich.
In Sugar, a woman steps out of a refrigerator and brings her body back to life. A dizzying journey inside the human mind, where the boundary between reality and fantasy/psychosis is tenuous.
Ariane lives in Val-d’Or. She will soon stay in the big city. So she gets ready to leave everything behind and to say bye to her brother. But the sexual tension between them, that they always struggle with, seems to take up the whole space.
In Sog, a building gets an allergic reaction to its inhabitants.
Snakes are a new accessory in the life of a suited man.
In Sitting Room a house begins to be swallowed by the ground underneath it and its occupants are too distracted to notice.
The film is like a shipwreck, a shipwreck of a town that is pummeled by rain, and in which the inhabitants start to sink. An urban poetry that is mainly made up of static frontal shots, designed like a tiny opera.