All the features and attributes of the last cinema in Paris (and possibly the entire world) still screening porn films on 35mm are fetishised and celebrated on the brink of theirdisappearance: the box office, the posters, the film reels, the pink(!) seats, and of course the mythic seclusion of the projection booth.
Also in this combined programme
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Day and Night
A hypnotising exploration of polarities: stillness and motion, 2D and 3D, positive and negative, colour and black-and-white, day and night. -
The Green Wave
Consciousness reflects on the subconscious, the latter often represented by an ocean. Jacobs plays with our perception of a tidal pool, in a maelstrom -
The Rodeo Trilogy
The Mayberry Practice Calf, Second Place and The Wooden Calf are three silent shorts about the practice and patience that lead to great performances. -
Night Hunter
This eerie, allegorical homage to silent film star Lillian Gish is composed of approximately 4,000 handmade collages. -
Village, Silenced
Focus in this short remake is on how sound is used as a means of social control, and the larger historical implications of repetition. -
Conference (Notes on Film 05)
The face of fascism? This grotesque found-footage film combines close-ups of 65 actors playing Adolf Hitler in films made between 1940 and today. -
Goose Weather
A visual oddity: a George Harrison album cover is explored as a visual counterpoint to a choral rendition of the text English Eccentrics. -
Intermezzo (Notes on Film 04)
A director’s fascination for Chaplin’s acting style, takes on the look of an explosive pop promo here.
Film details
- Country of production
- France
- Year
- 2011
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 18'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
