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Taking place in a future that does not yet exist, _Notes From Eremocene_ questions the ideal techno-optimistic model that lies ahead of us. From a curious, playful and critical standpoint, filmmaker Viera Čákanyová explores the potential of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence in dealing with complex global problems we humans create – climate change and the crisis of representative...
There is a geography of miracles. Jonasz studies insects and fishes, Signe leaves and herbs. After a day spent in gardens and libraries, they meet, take the train and leave the city, pitching their tent on the shores of a lake. As they read, eat fruit, wander the forest and swim in the cold water, the outside world feels further and further away. A stranger appears and a trio is formed. But the...
Composed of serious and funny musical scenes, _Language of Birds_ explores the virtues of translation and the desire for communication between humans and birds. Told by a narrator from the future, after the sixth mass extinction, the film observes in a curious and sensitive way the attempts made to establish a possible exchange.
The History of the Pig (Within Us)
New product!Pigs have had a close connection to humans since prehistoric times. Over the centuries, stories, rules and legends have given the animal a profound meaning. It is a symbol of uncleanness, for the "beast" hidden inside of us, a source of food, a bone of contention in discussions. This animal signifies both passion and rejection. And that says a lot about mankind.
In Malartic, in Abitibi, people are driven away from their land, from the towns they built with their own hands. Then comes the gaping hole, the scar on the Earth: the open-pit mine. And the company is paying for it all with nothing more than the promise of a shining future.
In 2019, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris burns before the eyes of a stunned crowd. Using images captured at the time, Alice Brygo reconstructs the scene using photogrammetry and sound staging, highlighting the behavior of the crowd.
In February 2021, Myanmar wakes up to the sounds of a military coup. The hopes of an entire generation are extinguished. Protests are held, but the dictatorship is too powerful: arrests, imprisonments and threats of execution ensue. The capital becomes a large open-air prison, but a few anonymous voices still have the strength to cry out.
Otto spends night and day blurring faces on Google Streetview for a cent each. It's the kind of work he and his friends around the world can find on the Amazon Mechanical Turk, the crowdworking platform. Alongside his turker friends, Otto sinks into a robotic world that raise the question of humanity.
In 2018, an incel called Anathematic Anarchist posted a suicide note on Reddit entitled "America is responsible for my death." This film is an attempt to find answers to his words. A virtual drift through the internet in search of his digital tracks that eventually turns into an inner journey between our connected solitudes.
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_ 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.
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_ 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...
For the Yenish, respect for one’s elders and religious fervour flirt indifferently with vandalism. Fred Dorkel is one of them: feared and respected by his community, he earns his living by stealing cars. One night, his life is turned upside down: an angel appears to him. For Fred, this is the sign of a second chance that he has to take. He decides to settle down, but this choice creates a clash...
_Living Here_ is a story made of solitude and wind, told with the poetry of Nunavik's stark tundra and the beauty of young Martha's words.
On the eve of an inevitable exile towards the urban centers, the youth of Temiscamingue is torn between the desire of a better future and the attachment to its territory.
Unique, mostly unseen before, archive footage from March 1953, presents the funeral of Joseph Stalin as the culmination of the dictator’s personality cult. The news of Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953, shocked the entire Soviet Union. The burial ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of mourners. We observe every stage of the funeral spectacle, described by Pravda newspaper, as the Great Far...
The immense Polish tractor factory Ursus was dismantled during the fall of the Soviet Union. With the active complicity of the men and women who worked there, Jaśmina Wójcik undertook the somewhat crazy project of a production that draws inspiration from musical comedy, Russian cinema, and opera.
Johan van der Keuken has always been fascinated by the art of Lucebert (1924-1994), one of the most influential poets in Dutch literature and a visual artist. He dedicated three short films to him in 1962, 1967 and 1994. This triptych has been brought together in a single film, the last part of which was shot in Lucebert's studio shortly after his death.
Taking place in a future that does not yet exist, _Notes From Eremocene_ questions the ideal techno-optimistic model that lies ahead of us. From a curious, playful and critical standpoint, filmmaker Viera Čákanyová explores the potential of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence in dealing with complex global problems we humans create – climate change and the crisis of representative...
There is a geography of miracles. Jonasz studies insects and fishes, Signe leaves and herbs. After a day spent in gardens and libraries, they meet, take the train and leave the city, pitching their tent on the shores of a lake. As they read, eat fruit, wander the forest and swim in the cold water, the outside world feels further and further away. A stranger appears and a trio is formed. But the...
Composed of serious and funny musical scenes, _Language of Birds_ explores the virtues of translation and the desire for communication between humans and birds. Told by a narrator from the future, after the sixth mass extinction, the film observes in a curious and sensitive way the attempts made to establish a possible exchange.
The History of the Pig (Within Us)
New product!Pigs have had a close connection to humans since prehistoric times. Over the centuries, stories, rules and legends have given the animal a profound meaning. It is a symbol of uncleanness, for the "beast" hidden inside of us, a source of food, a bone of contention in discussions. This animal signifies both passion and rejection. And that says a lot about mankind.
In Malartic, in Abitibi, people are driven away from their land, from the towns they built with their own hands. Then comes the gaping hole, the scar on the Earth: the open-pit mine. And the company is paying for it all with nothing more than the promise of a shining future.
In 2019, the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris burns before the eyes of a stunned crowd. Using images captured at the time, Alice Brygo reconstructs the scene using photogrammetry and sound staging, highlighting the behavior of the crowd.
In February 2021, Myanmar wakes up to the sounds of a military coup. The hopes of an entire generation are extinguished. Protests are held, but the dictatorship is too powerful: arrests, imprisonments and threats of execution ensue. The capital becomes a large open-air prison, but a few anonymous voices still have the strength to cry out.
Otto spends night and day blurring faces on Google Streetview for a cent each. It's the kind of work he and his friends around the world can find on the Amazon Mechanical Turk, the crowdworking platform. Alongside his turker friends, Otto sinks into a robotic world that raise the question of humanity.
In 2018, an incel called Anathematic Anarchist posted a suicide note on Reddit entitled "America is responsible for my death." This film is an attempt to find answers to his words. A virtual drift through the internet in search of his digital tracks that eventually turns into an inner journey between our connected solitudes.
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_ 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.
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_ 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...
For the Yenish, respect for one’s elders and religious fervour flirt indifferently with vandalism. Fred Dorkel is one of them: feared and respected by his community, he earns his living by stealing cars. One night, his life is turned upside down: an angel appears to him. For Fred, this is the sign of a second chance that he has to take. He decides to settle down, but this choice creates a clash...
_Living Here_ is a story made of solitude and wind, told with the poetry of Nunavik's stark tundra and the beauty of young Martha's words.
On the eve of an inevitable exile towards the urban centers, the youth of Temiscamingue is torn between the desire of a better future and the attachment to its territory.
Unique, mostly unseen before, archive footage from March 1953, presents the funeral of Joseph Stalin as the culmination of the dictator’s personality cult. The news of Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953, shocked the entire Soviet Union. The burial ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of mourners. We observe every stage of the funeral spectacle, described by Pravda newspaper, as the Great Far...
The immense Polish tractor factory Ursus was dismantled during the fall of the Soviet Union. With the active complicity of the men and women who worked there, Jaśmina Wójcik undertook the somewhat crazy project of a production that draws inspiration from musical comedy, Russian cinema, and opera.
Johan van der Keuken has always been fascinated by the art of Lucebert (1924-1994), one of the most influential poets in Dutch literature and a visual artist. He dedicated three short films to him in 1962, 1967 and 1994. This triptych has been brought together in a single film, the last part of which was shot in Lucebert's studio shortly after his death.