Concentrating on the cinema's role in (re)presenting recent history, with its complex social and political implications, the thematic programme
Painting With History renders relative notions such as reality and fiction, falsity and truth, analysing the ways through which subjectivity and objectivity blend together in the process of building up memory and identity, both personal and collective.
A (self)-portrait full of energy and colour of the artist travelling freely between past and future, between science and dream, the film by Thai director Korakrit Arunanondchai,
Painting With History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 3, follows the artist in search of their own identity, in the common meeting space
between Eastern and Western worlds.
Focusing upon the concept of national representation,
One.Two.Three, made by visual artist Vincent Meessen, exposed at the 56th Biennale from Venice, is an attempt of restitution of the almost unknown role played by the Congolese intellectuality within the International Situationist movement.
Investigating intelligently and in a ludic fashion the act of seeing itself, the competition programme
The Alchemy of the Frame explores the limitless and always surprising creative potential of cinema language.
The eternally challenging Gabriel Abrantes returns to BIEFF with
A Brief History of Princess X, in an irreverential phallic story on Brâncuși's sculpture titled
Princess X, at the
same time a touching and respectful homage brought to human fragility hidden under the brave mask of art.
What have in common John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Karl Marx, Jean Baudrillard, American Apparel and Bob Dylan? They are all part of a search for a commont narrative in the cinema essay by Max Grau,
«[...] craving for narrative». Isolating a musical-narrative motive from
Grease, the ‘70s movie, which he repeats obsessively, the director initiates a frank talk on the infiltration of pop culture in the collective conscience. The director will attend the screenings with the support of Goethe-Institut.
With
Foyer, art goes out in the street. Ismaïl Bahri walks with the camera about Tunis, recording the city and its inhabitants. The subversive element of this artistic
travelogue is generated by the piece of white paper blocking the camera's lens, having as effect an unexpected representation of reality, which changes its nuances and tones depending on the wind's caprices.
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