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Photomontage/Mon beau souci

Mark Rappaport | France | 2013 | 0' | | IFFR 2014

Rappaport combines movie images into an alternative film history, based on the cinephile canon. Both well-informed and highly irreverent, his subversive meta-fictions trigger our desire for impossible encounters on the screen. But the same images also haunt our daily lives and our private dreams.

Also in this combined programme

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    Recuperating anonymous home movies, Rigole provides them with new intertitles and an interactive soundtrack on a vinyl record.

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  • Wide.Love.Resist.Beautiful.Seduction.Violence.Your.Game.

    Subverting the codes of the film poster, this in-situ installation evokes the pseudo-narrative of an impossible, yet strangely familiar film.

    • Signals: Regained

  • Black and White Movies

    The destruction of a VHS collection is documented by photograms of the material remains. Each film was destroyed in the spirit of its story.

    • Signals: Regained

  • What an Excellent Day for an Exorcism

    This small monitor work invites us to mentally step into the frame of the famous bedroom where Linda Blair was confronted with the priests in Friedkin

    • Signals: Regained

  • Joan the Woman – With Voice

    Cecil B. DeMille’s 1916 portrait of Jeanne D’Arc is revisited for its special colouring technique when the martyr is seen burning at the stake. This t

    • Signals: Regained

  • The Gillian Hills Trilogy

    Gillian Hills’s cameo appearances in Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and Antonioni’s Blow-Up didn’t make her famous, but she did have an intriguing caree

    • Signals: Regained
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Film details

Country of production
France
Year
2013
Festival edition
IFFR 2014
Length
0"
Medium/Format
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