Layovers
Sometimes, it is worthwhile to get off the path and stopover in order to dig deeper and reflect. Once every two months, we call upon individuals whose thoughts, approaches, and methods we admire to select five films around a subject of their choice. You want to participate? Feel free to contact us at info@tenk.ca
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Beasts in Bits and Pieces
Duration: 22 minutes
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Winter 2018, Amsterdam, constellation of the Dog. I scour seventeen kilometers of archives in search of the beasts. Six hundred and eighty-three fragments of silent films, anonymous images collected by the EYE Film Institute under the title _Bits and Pieces_. But for me, these are the crumbs from our feast of beasts.
Western Sunburn
Duration: 20 minutes
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_Western Sunburn_ is a "rephotography" in video of material that was originally used in a performance during which Karl Lemieux, painted, scratched and burned film loops from an old western 16mm film. Traces of an impossible past and future collide in a trajectory where the present unravels.
Resources
Duration: 3h18
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In an employment assistance community organization, asylum seekers are offered jobs in slaughterhouses that will allow them to restart lives they were abruptly forced to leave behind. On a livestock farm, cows, pigs, and farmers are subjected to the rhythm of an industrial agricultural model. Outside, only the corn plants that serve to feed the animals pierce the aridity of desert-like soil. _R...
Animal Macula
Duration: 2h44
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_Animal Macula_ plunges us into the heart of a sprawling and winding network where animals transform as they move from one sequence to another, all drawn from 125 years of cinema. An enigma is contained in each image where an animal appears, diffused in the signs that he sends us in silence. Through archaeological work and collage, it is to this enigma that the film seeks to approach. By lett...
Savannah Bay, c'est toi
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Paris, 1983. Marguerite Duras, Madeleine Renaud, and Bulle Ogier are in the large hall of the Théâtre du Rond-Point where they are working on the creation of _Savannah Bay_. What they show us, what they make us experience, is truly the birth of the play: those privileged moments of theatrical creation when the ultimate coincidence between text and movement is established.
Les lycéens ont la parole
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Two months before May 68, the program _Dim Dam Dom_ focuses on the growing revolt among students. Romain Goupil, 16 years old, expelled from school, discusses with Marguerite Duras. Why do we engage in politics at such a young age? Does politics prevent you from working well? What is politics?
Marguerite Duras : du mot à l'image
Marguerite Duras : du mot à l'image
Duration: 23 minutesSubscription access
Marguerite Duras is interviewed at her home about the photographic illustration of her novel _Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein_. She reads excerpts from the book.
Savannah Bay, c'est toi
Paris, 1983. Marguerite Duras, Madeleine Renaud, and Bulle Ogier are in the large hall of the Théâtre du Rond-Point where they are working on the creation of _Savannah Bay_. What they show us, what they make us experience, is truly the birth of the play: those privileged moments of theatrical creation when the ultimate coincidence between text and movement is established.
Anaïs Nin
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In this interview with Fernand Seguin, the famous writer reveals the main aspects of her personality by reflecting on the different stages of her life. Anaïs Nin recounts her life and the simultaneous process of writing her journal for fifty years. She talks about her youth, her complicated relationship with her father, and her pivotal encounters with many famous artists such as Henry Miller an...
Portrait d'Edgar Varèse
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Interview with the Quebecois poet, novelist, and essayist Fernand Ouellette about his book on musician Edgar Varèse. He explains how he came to write the book, talks about his love for Varèse, the role of the machine in his music, the audience's reception... All interspersed with rare excerpts from interviews with Edgar Varèse.
La charge de l'orignal épormyable
La charge de l'orignal épormyable
Duration: 1h41Subscription access
A poet struggling to cope with society seeks refuge in an institution where therapists turn him into a test subject. He resists. They persist. He succumbs to the stupidity, cruelty, and madness of men. A teletheatre adaptation of Claude Gauvreau's cult play _La charge de l'orignal épormyable_.
Jenin, Jenin
In April 2002, the Israeli army launched Operation Defensive Shield and reoccupied the entire West Bank. The Jenin refugee camp was invaded and journalists and humanitarian organisations were denied access for several days. The Palestinians and many NGOs accused Israel of war crimes. Israel refused access to the UN fact-finding mission... Mohammad Bakri decided to enter the camp in spite of eve...
Ghost Hunting
In order to confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex-prisoners to recreate the Al-Moskobiya, Israel’s main interrogation centre, where he was himself jailed at age 18. Day after day, these construction workers, a blacksmith, an architect, an assistant director give shape to their memories of how they survived with grit and a sense of...
In the jasmine vines
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Shaping a memoir of my personal return, _in the jasmine vines_ is an assertion that the amalgam that makes my complex identity belongs, gifted by my grandfather and his story and honoured by the generations following his. Forming an imagery of complex memory, archive, story and imagination, this film is a learnt way to place my existence within a narrative. And so, I look for the scents they ca...
Year of the Robot
At the crossroads of art and science, this film centers on human beings and robots as their artificial counterparts. Like a series of archival documents detailing the first contacts and exchanges between human beings and a robot, the film studies cognitive dissonance, a minuscule, mysterious relational space lying between them both.
A.rtificial I.mmortality
If you were able to create an immortal version of yourself, would you? This film explores the latest advancements in AI, robotics, and biotech with visionaries who argue for a new age of post-biological life. As scientists point us toward a world where humans and machines merge, we have to ask ourselves will AI be the best or the last thing we ever do?
Instructions for Robots
Made at the International Film School in Cuba (EICTV) at the start of the rainy season. A tender re-examination of bodies from the first generation of Artificial Intelligence robots programmed with a full range of emotions. Electronic revolt and resistance. Secret messages encoded within robot diary fragments offer possible futures for post-human societies.
AlphaGo
The intelligent robot DeepMind did not appear to be a worthy opponent for the world champion of the game of Go, Lee Sedol. From Bordeaux to Seoul, this film looks back at the tournament between them and asks what artificial intelligence can reveal about a 3,000-year-old game... and humanity.
Beasts in Bits and Pieces
Duration: 22 minutes
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Winter 2018, Amsterdam, constellation of the Dog. I scour seventeen kilometers of archives in search of the beasts. Six hundred and eighty-three fragments of silent films, anonymous images collected by the EYE Film Institute under the title _Bits and Pieces_. But for me, these are the crumbs from our feast of beasts.
Western Sunburn
Duration: 20 minutes
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_Western Sunburn_ is a "rephotography" in video of material that was originally used in a performance during which Karl Lemieux, painted, scratched and burned film loops from an old western 16mm film. Traces of an impossible past and future collide in a trajectory where the present unravels.
Resources
Duration: 3h18
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In an employment assistance community organization, asylum seekers are offered jobs in slaughterhouses that will allow them to restart lives they were abruptly forced to leave behind. On a livestock farm, cows, pigs, and farmers are subjected to the rhythm of an industrial agricultural model. Outside, only the corn plants that serve to feed the animals pierce the aridity of desert-like soil. _R...
Animal Macula
Duration: 2h44
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_Animal Macula_ plunges us into the heart of a sprawling and winding network where animals transform as they move from one sequence to another, all drawn from 125 years of cinema. An enigma is contained in each image where an animal appears, diffused in the signs that he sends us in silence. Through archaeological work and collage, it is to this enigma that the film seeks to approach. By lett...
Savannah Bay, c'est toi
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Paris, 1983. Marguerite Duras, Madeleine Renaud, and Bulle Ogier are in the large hall of the Théâtre du Rond-Point where they are working on the creation of _Savannah Bay_. What they show us, what they make us experience, is truly the birth of the play: those privileged moments of theatrical creation when the ultimate coincidence between text and movement is established.
Les lycéens ont la parole
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Two months before May 68, the program _Dim Dam Dom_ focuses on the growing revolt among students. Romain Goupil, 16 years old, expelled from school, discusses with Marguerite Duras. Why do we engage in politics at such a young age? Does politics prevent you from working well? What is politics?
Marguerite Duras : du mot à l'image
Marguerite Duras : du mot à l'image
Duration: 23 minutesSubscription access
Marguerite Duras is interviewed at her home about the photographic illustration of her novel _Le ravissement de Lol V. Stein_. She reads excerpts from the book.
Savannah Bay, c'est toi
Paris, 1983. Marguerite Duras, Madeleine Renaud, and Bulle Ogier are in the large hall of the Théâtre du Rond-Point where they are working on the creation of _Savannah Bay_. What they show us, what they make us experience, is truly the birth of the play: those privileged moments of theatrical creation when the ultimate coincidence between text and movement is established.
Anaïs Nin
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In this interview with Fernand Seguin, the famous writer reveals the main aspects of her personality by reflecting on the different stages of her life. Anaïs Nin recounts her life and the simultaneous process of writing her journal for fifty years. She talks about her youth, her complicated relationship with her father, and her pivotal encounters with many famous artists such as Henry Miller an...
Portrait d'Edgar Varèse
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Interview with the Quebecois poet, novelist, and essayist Fernand Ouellette about his book on musician Edgar Varèse. He explains how he came to write the book, talks about his love for Varèse, the role of the machine in his music, the audience's reception... All interspersed with rare excerpts from interviews with Edgar Varèse.
La charge de l'orignal épormyable
La charge de l'orignal épormyable
Duration: 1h41Subscription access
A poet struggling to cope with society seeks refuge in an institution where therapists turn him into a test subject. He resists. They persist. He succumbs to the stupidity, cruelty, and madness of men. A teletheatre adaptation of Claude Gauvreau's cult play _La charge de l'orignal épormyable_.
Jenin, Jenin
In April 2002, the Israeli army launched Operation Defensive Shield and reoccupied the entire West Bank. The Jenin refugee camp was invaded and journalists and humanitarian organisations were denied access for several days. The Palestinians and many NGOs accused Israel of war crimes. Israel refused access to the UN fact-finding mission... Mohammad Bakri decided to enter the camp in spite of eve...
Ghost Hunting
In order to confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex-prisoners to recreate the Al-Moskobiya, Israel’s main interrogation centre, where he was himself jailed at age 18. Day after day, these construction workers, a blacksmith, an architect, an assistant director give shape to their memories of how they survived with grit and a sense of...
In the jasmine vines
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Shaping a memoir of my personal return, _in the jasmine vines_ is an assertion that the amalgam that makes my complex identity belongs, gifted by my grandfather and his story and honoured by the generations following his. Forming an imagery of complex memory, archive, story and imagination, this film is a learnt way to place my existence within a narrative. And so, I look for the scents they ca...
Year of the Robot
At the crossroads of art and science, this film centers on human beings and robots as their artificial counterparts. Like a series of archival documents detailing the first contacts and exchanges between human beings and a robot, the film studies cognitive dissonance, a minuscule, mysterious relational space lying between them both.
A.rtificial I.mmortality
If you were able to create an immortal version of yourself, would you? This film explores the latest advancements in AI, robotics, and biotech with visionaries who argue for a new age of post-biological life. As scientists point us toward a world where humans and machines merge, we have to ask ourselves will AI be the best or the last thing we ever do?
Instructions for Robots
Made at the International Film School in Cuba (EICTV) at the start of the rainy season. A tender re-examination of bodies from the first generation of Artificial Intelligence robots programmed with a full range of emotions. Electronic revolt and resistance. Secret messages encoded within robot diary fragments offer possible futures for post-human societies.
AlphaGo
The intelligent robot DeepMind did not appear to be a worthy opponent for the world champion of the game of Go, Lee Sedol. From Bordeaux to Seoul, this film looks back at the tournament between them and asks what artificial intelligence can reveal about a 3,000-year-old game... and humanity.
