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Discover the VIDEOFORMES 2025 video competition through the eyes of the UCA student jury!
For its 2025 edition, VIDEOFORMES presented an international video competition, screening 41 videos from 16 different countries. A student jury watched the videos and awarded the Clermont Auvergne University / VIDEOFORMES 2025 Student Jury Prize.
The jury – made up of Charles Fredon, Yanis Da Silva and Julien Csak – was also invited to draw up a ‘Coup de cœur’ programme of artists’ videos entitled “Regards Hybrides”. To be discovered on 16 April!
In partnership with the Cultural University Service of the Université Clermont Auvergne and the Cultural Service of the Crous Clermont Auvergne, as part of Clermont Innovation Week.
PROGRAMME :::
fresh film | Lyazzat Khanim | 2023 | Kazakhstan | 2’55
fresh film marks the conclusion of the “fresh painting” series, exposing the pitfalls of consumerism. Using photorealistic paintings of everyday foods, like fruits and vegetables, the film critiques the exaggerated nature of the art market. In a world driven by capitalism, the project highlights the irony of fulfilling basic needs. As society struggles with rising food prices and hunger, these harsh realities often hide behind polished images. “fresh film” utilizes these images to satirize and draw attention to the absurdity of our collective human experience.
Révolutions | Yann Chapotel | France | 2024 | 08’13
In a long panoramic view superimposing different temporalities of the same urban space, Revolutions shows individual trajectories that intersect and end up reuniting, coordinating and becoming one. The images were filmed in Nantes between March and November 2023, a period of demonstrations against the French pension reform. The latter was adopted on March 16, 2023 without a vote in the National Assembly thanks to Article 49.3 of the constitution, a constitution put in place by General de Gaulle, whose statue stands on the square where Revolutions was filmed.
Between Delicate and Violent | Şirin Bahar Demirel | 2023 | Turquie & Pays-Bas | 14’40
Can we see the violence of the painter’s hands in the brush strokes of his paintings? Could cross-stitch be an alphabet? ‘Between Delicate and Violent’ imagines unearthing traumatic memories that have not been included in family albums.
Will You Come With Me? | Derya Durmaz | 2023 | Allemagne | 1’57
The liberated city Berlin gives you a slap in the face when it comes to intimate relationships, showing things not being different then the past when women had to take responsibility for the actions of men as well as theirs and bear the consequences all alone.
Subotopic | Nikki Schuster | 2023 | Autriche, Allemagne | 7’00
In Subtopic, the viewer’s gaze dives below the water’s surface downwards into ever deeper layers of water. In morphed single-frame switching, bizarre pictorial plants and insect creatures pass by the viewer. One dives into lightless spaces until one penetrates a surface of light again. Diving deeper and deeper, existing parallel worlds are made visible under water and new utopias are created.
Sublime | Marie Heribel, Candice Yernaux, Juliette Buysschaert, Camille Leroy, Joséphine Vendeville, Martin Laurent, Lucas Foutrier | 2024 | France | 8’03
In a society where beauty is revered like a deity, a doll seeks to find her place.