26 Nov 2008

||||| OPENING IN PARIS||||| RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID |||||

After Madrid in May and Berlin in July, the 17th Rencontres Internationales will create during 10 days, from November 28th to December 7th, a space of discovery and reflection between new cinema and contemporary art, a circulation between different spots in the city: at the Centre Pompidou, at Jeu de Paume national museum, at Paris-Villette Theatre, at New Latina Theater, at Goethe Institute, at Cervantes Institute, at Canadian Cultural Center, at Swedish Cultural Center and at Finnish Institute.

With the participation of 150 artists and filmmakers from all-over the world, this exceptional edition will propose an international program – film, video, installation, net art – gathering 200 works from France, Spain, Germany and 60 other countries, internationally-known artists and filmmakers with young artists and filmmakers presented for the first time in Paris. With many film premieres, video programs, an exhibition, 2 multimedia concerts, a cycle of debates and panel discussions. A video library will offer a space where the whole programming, made of 95% of premieres, could be viewed and reviewed on request.

The event is supported notably by the City of Paris, the Regional Council of Ile-de-France, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, as well as the Spanish Embassy, the Goethe Institute, the Cervantes Institute.


|||||| OPENING: FRIDAY 28th OF NOVEMBER, 2008
|||||| AT THE CENTRE POMPIDOU – CINEMA 1


>>> FILM AND VIDEO SCREENINGS

(documentary approaches, new fictions, videos, experimental film)
Notable works include several Carte blanche by:

- Pedro Costa [PT].
- Chantal Akerman [FR].
- Artavazd Pelechian [RS].
- The latest video by Antoni Muntadas [ES] « On Translation: Miedo/Jauf ».

Among the programmed artists, we could also mention:

Emmanuelle Antille [CH], Vasco Araujo [PT], Knut Asdam [NO], Herman Asselberghs [BE], Christian Barani [FR], Carles Congost [ES], Manon de Boer [NL], Eleonore de Montesquiou [FR], Peter Downsbrough [USA], Christophe Girardet [DE], Philippe Grandrieux [FR], Ken Jacobs [USA], Lamia Joreige [LB], Francis Naranjo [ES], Yves Netzhammer [CH], Volker Schreiner [DE], Liu Wei [CN].

Each screening focuses on a subject, a transversal theme related to different audiovisual forms and practices (documentary, video, experimental...).


>>> EXHIBITION

The exhibition titled 'DATA MEANINGS' presents 10 installations - multimedia installations, net art. It focuses on diversion and circulation of the data on internet.

Presented artists: Christophe Bruno [FR], Claude Closky [FR], JoDi [NL], Übermorgen [AU], Mindaugas Gapsevicius [LT], Ricardo Iglesias et Mario Ruiz [ES], Joan Leandre [ES], Michael Takeo Magruder [UK], RYBN [FR].


>>> MULTIMEDIA CONCERTS

Telcosystems (NL) and The Pink Twins (FI) experiment sounds and visual images on the base of computer codes.


>>> DEBATES AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS

The 'Rencontres Internationales' invite directors and curators from European and extra-European national museums, contemporary art centers and biennales in the fields of contemporary cinema, video and new media. These debates aim to develop a reflection on the concerns and tracks explored in each country in order to debrief this creation and accompany it, from a critical point of view as well as from the point of view of audiences and artists themselves.


Paris/Berlin/Madrid

In 2007, the 'Rencontres Internationales', which initially took place in Paris and Berlin, opened up to a third city: Madrid. This event now constitutes a unique artistic and cultural platform in Europe for artists, professional networks and various audiences. The venues in the three cities are in particular the Centre Pompidou and the Jeu de Paume national museum in Paris, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Reina Sofia National museum and the Spanish Cinematheque in Madrid.

The 'Rencontres Internationales' offers more than a simple presentation of the works. It introduces an intercultural forum gathering various guests from all over the world - artists and filmmakers, institutions and emerging organizations - to testify to their reflections and their experiences, but also to artistic and cultural contexts that are often undergoing deep changes.

The 'Rencontres Internationales' reflects specificities and convergences of artistic practices between new cinema and contemporary art, explores emerging media art practices and their critical purposes, and makes possible a necessary time when points of view meet and are exchanged. The event aims at presenting works to a broad audience, at creating circulations between different art practices and between different audiences, as well as creating new exchanges between artists, filmmakers and professionals. It seeks to contribute to a reflection on our contemporary culture of image via a compelling program opened to everyone.

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