Maurice

Patrick Kack-Brice | France | 2011 | 18' |

| IFFR 2012

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

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.
Signals: Regained
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 maelst
Signals: Regained
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 performance
Signals: Regained
Night Hunter

This eerie, allegorical homage to silent film star Lillian Gish is composed of approximately 4,000 handmade collages.
Signals: Regained
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.
Signals: Regained
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.

Signals: Regained
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.
Signals: Regained
Intermezzo (Notes on Film 04)

A director’s fascination for Chaplin’s acting style, takes on the look of an explosive pop promo here.
Signals: Regained