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March 14 to 28, 2025
Institut de la communication (ICOM), Université Lyon 2
ICOM’s mission is to organize and manage training and research activities relating to the various forms of communication, information, computing and digital creation. Our diplomas cover all university levels, from the first year of a bachelor’s degree to doctoral studies.
Website: https://icom.univ-lyon2.fr/
Presentation of the course:
Responsible : Albert Merino
The moving image course involves Master 1 and Master 2 students. It exposes students from various branches to video, exploring editing and post-production software to stimulate their creativity in their respective fields. They analyze various audiovisual fields and the history of editing, and explore Found Footage as a common thread, experimenting and deconstructing through personal projects. Objectives include understanding narrative principles, analyzing audiovisual works, and creatively applying techniques in personal projects. The course encourages the creation of a singular vision, the development of one’s own style, and the exploration of the Found Footage concept as a common thread.
VIDEO PROGRAM:::
Footage Horizontal | Léane Debret | 2024 | 00’46
This video invites viewers to experience a range of intense emotions through excerpts from iconic films. The opening plunges the viewer into a dark, heavy atmosphere, exploring human injustice and pain: the unbearable loss in Shutter Island, the madness of The Joker, the heart-rending sacrifices of The Green Line, or the horror of Inglourious Basterds. Leonard Cohen’s haunting music, You Want It Darker, accentuates this gravity, instantly capturing the attention.
But suddenly, the tension erupts: the song Laisse tomber les filles in its English version instills an ironic rupture, reminiscent of the Tarantino universe. This transition marks the switch to lightness and celebration, with luminous scenes of dance and joy, like Margot Robbie in The Wolf of Wall Street and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
This project explores the deep contrasts of human emotions, playing with the oppositions between darkness and light, tension and euphoria, to offer a rich and nuanced cinematic experience.
La poursuite | Maxime Coux | 2024 | 2’27
This video seeks to explore narrative continuity through the direction fitting using excerpts from different films and scenes. The objective is to create visual and emotional fluidity despite the diversity of contexts, genres and points of view. By manipulating the direction plays, angle changes and subtle transitions, editing seeks to blur the boundaries between sequences and suggest that the story continues beyond the apparent cuts. Each movement or gesture of a character in a scene becomes a link with the next scene, allowing to weave an invisible but coherent thread. The experiment aims to destabilize the perception of the spectator, who, although aware of changes in places and contexts, is carried by the implicit continuity of actions and looks.
Univers MIYAZAKI | Marine Blanchon | 2024 | 4’
This video project explores the poetic universe of Hayao Miyazaki’s films. The visual traits of Ghibli’s masterpieces blend seamlessly with the song In This Shirt by The Irrepressibles. This musical choice, although surprising at first glance, is of a striking emotional relevance: the powerful feelings conveyed by music find a deep resonance in the narratives and landscapes of Miyazaki’s films. The contrast between the visual serenity of the scenes and the dynamic variations in the melody creates an enthralling experience, where each musical passage magnifies the subtlety and richness of the images. This dialogue between sound and image invites the viewer to re – discover the work of the studio Ghibli in a new emotional prism, by merging the universe of Japanese animation cinema and that of contemporary music.
Cyberpunk | Maxime Prudhomme | 2024 | 3’09
This video proposes a musical reinterpretation on the guitar, captured through a careful and multi-angular realization. The main track is recorded with several cameras offering different perspectives: a global shot, a close-up of the right hand and the body of the guitar, as well as a shot focused on the left hand and the neck. One of the shots takes a counterdive while the other opts for a dive, creating a particular visual dynamic. The montage alternates images from the guitar performance with visual sequences taken from the game Cyberpunk 2077, integrated to enrich the narration and musical atmosphere. This combination creates a dialogue between the musical performance and the futuristic aesthetics of the game.
Est-ce que vous m’entendez ? | Klai Hajer | 2024 | 3’45
Can you hear me ? is a short documentary that questions the contemporary representation of conflicts through the prism of technological and media transformations. The film questions how, in previous conflicts, access for journalists and cameras to war zones has been progressively restricted. This strategy aimed to control the impact of images on public opinion, a phenomenon that culminated in reflections such as Baudrillard’s assertion that “the Gulf War did not take place”. This provocative statement highlights how some conflicts have been transformed into media simulacra, carefully orchestrated narratives to shape collective perception. In contrast, the film explores how the emergence of new technologies and social networks has overturned this dynamic. Smartphones, ubiquitous, now allow for an instant and decentralized dissemination of images, beyond the control of traditional media institutions. Through testimonies and images taken from the current conflict in the Middle East, Do you hear me? highlights this transformation: a multiplication of often raw and immediate viewpoints that redefine the way conflicts are seen and understood. This video reflects on the power of images in the digital age, while questioning the limits and dangers of an overabundance of unfiltered content. It offers a glimpse of a connected youth, for whom technology is not only a tool, but a gateway to a more direct and sometimes disordered understanding of the world.
Fréquence | Nassim et Idir Tabet | 2024 | 4’08
This short film, made in a domestic setting, follows the story of a young man in his daily life. As he wakes up one morning and begins his usual routine, he listens to a mysterious podcast on frequency 666. Quickly, the strangeness takes hold: the content of the podcast seems to describe with a disturbing precision the events it is experiencing. The descriptions become more and more detailed, until the young man is warned of the unexpected and disturbing presence in his own room. Inspired by classic horror codes, this short film plays with anxiety and suspense. By combining a familiar environment with an intangible threat, he immerses the viewer in an oppressive atmosphere where every noise and shadow becomes a source of intrigue. This project is also a cinematic language exercise, using a limited number of elements to maximize the narrative and emotional impact, proving that it is possible to create an exciting tension with few resources.
A Study of fear | Paing Thant Zin Htoo | 2024 | 5’17
This experimental video project, entitled A Study of Fear, offers an anthological exploration of the cinematic horror genre through found footage. It is an immersive journey into the multiple subgenres that make up horror, each represented by a separate segment: Body Horror, Slasher, Found Footage, Psychological Horror, Supernatural, Modern/Technological Horror, among others. Through a selection of footage from iconic media such as the video game series Silent Hill and Resident Evil, the V/H/S movies, the stories of Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities, or works like Black Mirror and Parasyte, the film weaves a rich visual and sound patchwork, capturing the unique essence of each subgenre. The sound, integrated directly from the source media, is enhanced by the striking use of the song Go Tell Aunt Rhody, Revisited in a modern and disturbing version of Resident Evil 7. The goal of this project is to demonstrate that horror goes beyond the simple codes of easy jump.