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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Etienne Caire

Etienne CAIRE (France) is a filmmaker working with photo-chemical processes and live, expanded cinema projector performances, often under the pseudonym RioJim. He runs the MTK Studio in Grenoble, France, which he co-founded in 1992 with friends as a film laboratory focused on experimental techniques in film processing, animation and optical printing.

Filmography

(all short) Filmbase (2008), MetalkinG (2010), LAFOXE (2010), CHERI-CHERI Teddy Bear (2011), Riojam (2012), Stromboli left hand (2017), WAVE BEHAVIOR (2017), Goldman Crash (2018), Argentine Signal (2019, performance, co-dir) 

Etienne Caire at IFFR

  • Lafoxe

    Dynamic live film performance made with found-footage material in ‘hyperscope’ widescreen.

    • Short: Starting from Scratch
  • Goldman Crash

    A post-apocalyptic film crafted from earlier post-apocalyptic films that asks: Did Hollywood predict the attack on the World Trade Center?

    • Synergetic
  • Argentine Signal

    An adventurous performance where analogue projectors and film reels meet with amplified video signals.

    • Synergetic