Resistance Video #2 - micro-festival of experimental contemporary & alternative video in France

[Troudair <troudair@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

sorry if this announcement is not completly about microsound music but I thought it might be interesting for some of you to have some news about experimental and artistic video in France.
I've done english translation (sorry for grammatical mistakes) only for that list but website is in french.
hope you'll be interested.

troudair
http://www.resistance-video.org
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RESISTANCE VIDEO #2

9 / 10 / 11 août 2002
Maison de la Danse
place des véens / Auxerre / France

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programme 1: action !
friday 9 - 21H / saturday 10 - 12H

commercials from Dojo Cinema :

Dojo cinema is an art group from Montreuil (Paris suburb) that presents every two weeks a new video movie to his public. Those videos are often political, minimalistic and inspired by philosophers such as Plato, Guy Debord or historical politicians like Robespierre.
In general, those videos are made to be presented only in the Dojo (a real judo dojo where you must take your shoes off to watch movies) but for the first time, dojo team accepted to export their productions somewhere else.
videos : one commercial / Robespierre / Les Lois (The Laws)

programme 2: free part 1
saturday 10 - 16H / sunday 11 - 12H

Pierre Davidovici :
Pierre Davidovici is part of "collectif & cie", an electro-acoustic studio based in Annecy (France). The work "Eclats de mémoire" is a video about french resistance during World War II in the mountains near Annecy.
This video was made from the work of Olivier Toulemonde wich realised an electro-acoustic / concrete piece about this subject.
- Eclats de mémoire (31')
http://www.collectifetcie.fr.fm

Pierre-Yves Cruaud :
the work of Pierre-Yves Cruaud is often showed in many places in Europe. Art gallery, video festival, etc, etc.
always minimalistic, done with almost no-money, there is nevertheless poetry in those videos.
www.cruaud.net

- Fausse solitude (5'40)
- l'hôtel des vies reproductibles (3')
- Images (3'50)
- Le silence est en marche (3'30)
- En travaux (2')
- Lettre première (5'45)
- Rec (4'50)

programme 3: physical body / social body
saturday 10 - 18H / sunday 11 - 14H

Antonin de Bemels :
Antonin de Bemels lives in Bruxelles and work with collaborators such as Bud Blumenthal (contemporary dance choregraph) or Elf Cut electronic label (http://www.elfcut.net/).
So his video are inspired by the body, the movement and parasites in those systems.
- Scrub Solo 3: Soliloqui (17'30)
(www.periactes.be/antonindb)

Laetitia Bourget :
Like Antonin, Laetitia Bourget works with body, but in a different way, thinking more that physical existence and intimacy are clues to understand well better our society.
Between video-performance and body-art, her work doesn't forget beauty.

- manipuler son corps (4'30)
- au travail (17')
- l'hygiène corporelle : pour une anthropologie de l'homme moderne (9')
- construire sa maison (4')
- (...) (9') 
http://laetibou.free.fr

programme 4: free part 2
saturday 10 - 21H / sunday 11 - 16H

Pascal Lièvre :
pop parasitism, low-tech tactics to fool some famous songs of pop music, the work of Pascal Lievre can be qualified as militant-humour.
for exemple, his "video-clip" called Abba-Mao shows him singing an extract of a Mao Zedung speek on the air of "money, money".
- Lacan-Dalida (6'30)
- Abba-Mao (4')
- I love America

Yves Coméliau :
Short film about a boy becoming adult in a night.
Yves Coméliau was sound technician before becoming a director.
- 13 ans, c'est formidable

Vince Drouot & Fred Fleury :
Humour again with this parody of 80's gore movies made by two artists playing almost 25 characters.
- Little Blue Sleep (12')

Pascal Auger :
Well known in french video-art world for making experimental movies (super8 / 16mm and now video) since the 60's, Pascal Auger's work is interested in meditative power of cinema and video. Repetitive, minimal, his work is also inspired by Oriental philosophy and art, japanese in particular, for he has been resident in Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto.
you can find video files to download on his website.
- A la cathédrale (4')
- Voyage à Philae (4')
- Haïkus
http://perso.club-internet.fr/pascal-auger/

live: HAÏKUS
saturday 10 - after programme 4

sumoto.iki / Pascal Auger :

Pascal Auger creates since several years 1-minute videos called "haïkus serie".
He asks musicians to compose 1-minute pieces to illustrate those works.
This time, for Resistance Video Festival, we asked to sumoto.iki, french glitch and microsound composer, to performe live during video projection of the "haïkus serie".

listening :
sumoto.iki - ère open (from Court Central album) - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/troudair/resistancevideo/sumoto1.ram
sumoto.iki - Observation (from Lancinantes chroniques du quotidien) - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/troudair/resistancevideo/sumoto2.ram

programme 5: star system
saturday 10 - 14H / sunday 11 - 18H

Philippe Chalem :
Painter, fashion photograph, Philippe Chalem is interested in physical beauty as a war weapon.
His videos are witness of the artificial-image-oriented times we are living.
- A day in the log machine (21')
- Realm of stars and stripes (7') 

Thierry Théolier :
Thierry Théolier makes art with nothing. Like "art brut" artists made art with recuperation objects and garbage material, thierry theolier uses the modern garbage (apparence games, vanity, hedonism, ...)  to build his universe.
His movie, Rush Life, is an uncut sequence of one of his night he spent infiltrating private gallery shows presenting himself as a famous contemporan artist. amazing...
http://deliciel.free.fr/

programme 6: "21 avril 2002"
friday 9 - 18H / sunday 11 - 21H

Les productions aléatoires présentent...
seven politic videos

Like writers telling their thoughts and reflexions in newspapers immediatly after an event, "les productions aléatoires" decided to ask 7 videoartists to explain their feeling just after the qualification of Jean-Marie Le Pen extreme-right leader for the second turn of french presidential election.

- Le ventre est toujours fécond ... (Pierre-Jean Bouyer - 5'40)
- Merejkowsky (Pierre Merejkowsky - 19'30)
- Ciao bella ciao (Laurence Rebouillon - 7'15)
- Cette mauvaise réputation (Gaëlle Petit - 5'20)
- Le brame du cerf (Bernard Cerf - 4'40)
- Sans voix (Philippe Lebret - 8')
- Petit matin (Frédéric Tachou - 28'40)

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all news that I've forgotten to translate :
www.resistance-video.org

more info / talking with a human being :

troudair
7, rue des consuls
F-89000 auxerre
FRANCE

tel : 06-81-96-49-49
troudair@xxxxxxxxxxx