Thursday, March 13 – Sunday, March 30
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SIGNATURES – VIDEOS EXHIBITIONS:::
In 40 editions, VIDEOFORMES has played a key role in the discovery of innovative artists, emerging writing and daring experimentation. The SIGNATURES programs brilliantly embody the richness and diversity of the creations that intersect and reinvent themselves at this festival, a veritable avant-garde laboratory where art constantly pulsates and evolves.
SIGNATURES COMÉDIE :::
Thursday 13 > Sunday 30 March
Comédie facade
In partnership with the Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand
Exterior facade of the Comédie, corner of rue Léo Lagrange and boulevard François Mitterand
Opening hours:::
Continuous projection 24/7
Audio via smartphone (QR CODE)
- Vanité à la tulipe | Richard SKRYZAK (FRA) | 2012 | 1’00
The cyclical fall of a tulip petal sets the rhythm of time like an hourglass. Fragility and transience merge within the same temporal sequence.
- Viento | Mariana CARRANZA (URY) | 2012 | 1’00
Choreography experiencing the qualities that a strong wind prints on the movements. At the same time, an algorithmic simulation of the wind deforms the digital image.
- loving | Regina HÜBNER (AUT) | 2018 | 4’00
About love and time. Observing from our globus the very rare half-moon in vertical position, during its real-time moving across the sky.
- Zone fuori controllo | Giuliana CUNEAZ (ITA) | 2013 | 5’00
Zone hors de contrôle is a work that uses sophisticated nanotechnological tools. In this 3D video, alongside aspects of a social nature and references to natural disasters and ecological disorders, the artist has created new visual hypotheses in which she reinvents landscapes of ice or fire, generating latent forms that maintain an implicit relationship with nature and our perception of it.
- Virtual Kintsugi | Ismaël JOFFROY CHANDOUTIS | 2022 | 12’00
Virtual Kintsugi offers a bold and innovative approach to restoring damaged artworks, leveraging generative artificial intelligence. At the heart of this project are ten paintings from the Granet Museum in Aix-en-Provence, which have awaited restoration for years. Covered in Japanese paper, their original forms remain concealed, leaving room for the imagination of the spectators. Ten individuals describe these enigmatic works. Their interpretations, sometimes shifting and contradictory, were used to generate “prompts” that serve as the foundation for an image-generating AI. Thus, Virtual Kintsugi breathes life into ephemeral and unique reconstructions of the damaged artworks, elevating their imperfections and gaps.
- Révolutions | Yann CHAPOTEL (FRA) | 2024 | 8’13
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
- Chantier | Anne-Marie ROGNON (FRA) | 2024 | 3’14
Construction site
- Hush Now. | Laen SANCHES (FRA) | 2024 | 4’07
Hush Now. offers a bluntly intimate look at world leaders during some of their everyday moments, pondering what’s in their minds when the world mourns, what they think about when they’re alone, in their moments of relaxation, or what they dream about during their power naps.
- Pensées | Anne-Sophie EMARD | 2002 | 14’21
Pensées is Anne-Sophie Emard’s first video. A frenzied succession of injunctions written in red and green, they are in fact fragments of dialogues borrowed from the cinema that the artist transforms into a single image: poetic and signalling.
- Les cartes du champ de bataille | Florian SCHÔNERSTED (FRA) | 2023 | 11’36
In 2016, I collected and archived all the waste generated by my apartment. I eliminated soiled objects and organic residues. This film is an exhaustive restitution, from one to five items per frame at a rate of 12 frames per secondes.
- Verisimilaremotions | Sanglim HAN (KOR) | 2023| 12’44
Recent work made by 3D simulation and AI.
- Blasting Off | Scott HESSELS (USA) | 2024 | 4’40
The film shows every rocket launch globally since 1957, the 20th Century ‘space race’ of over 5,000 rockets that have left our atmosphere is shown as a poetic ballet of competition and exploration.
- Visions | Maxime CORBEIL-PERRON (CAN) | 2024 | 6’41
Created shortly after going through a harrowing and transformative personal experience, Visions is a fragmentary work created with a wide variety of media and techniques : stop-motion animation, analog video synthesis, Super 8 and digital image. Emerging from a variety of dreams, memories and visions experienced during a hospitalization Visions is a poetic exploration of the thin line that separates life from death.
- Schockwave | Mihai GRECU (ROU) | 2023 | 4’00
Shockwave is a metaphorical reflection on technology and its possible consequences.
With each zoom, the narrative unfolds, revealing complex layers of latent space dreams, representing landscapes and situations entirely generated by artificial intelligence and thematically linked to the beginning of the atomic age. Shockwave is a metaphorical reminder of the inexorable cost of scientific progress, a reflection on the precipice of annihilation. The fear of AI technology echoes the fears aroused by the development of nuclear technology during the 20th century.
- Limbus IV | Hugo ARCIER (FRA) | 2024| 8’27
Limbus is an ongoing series that began in 2011 with Limbus (Rage). It’s an exploration of video game environments from a different point of view from the players: underneath the levels.
- Laranna_El—Jardiner_ | François VOGEL (FRA) | 2024 | 2’54
L’Arannà is François Vogel’s Artwork on spatiotemporal deformations applied to the 7 tracks on the album Jardi vora el mar. The artist transforms his images using a digital version of the pinhole camera, offering a new vision of space, temporality and reality.
- Morphogenetic Tensions | Golnaz BEHROUZNIA (IRN) | 2020 | 1’50
Morphogenetic Tensions questions the origin of forms in our environment torn between nature and artifice.
The disruption and disappearance of original forms within terrestrial environments can be identified from the point of view of the characters and laws that direct all existing forms. Will the future of our world depend on the morphogenetic balance that could be established within a new hybrid ecosystem ? emerging in a post-anthropocene era ?
- Nos doux espoirs | Simon COOVI-SIROIS (CAN) | 2024 | 8’15
Marvin connects to the metaverse with the intention of customizing his avatar. In this familiar and surreal landscape, he meets Melissa, an artificial intelligence and tattoo artist.
- Last day of summer | Marcin WOJCIECHOSKI (POL) | 2024 | 3’24
A graphic vivisection of film structure, movement and time. Fragments of found footage material undergo a metamorphosis by overlapping frames, creating multiplied streaks that are a sequence of trajectories, forms and traces
- Medusa | Véronique RIZZO (FRA) | 2016-2018 | 2’35
I used a sequence shot from Jack Arnold’s film ‘It came from outer space’ (1953). On the pretext of an alien attack, we plunge into paranoid Hollywood propaganda. Indoctrination by the fear of the other that characterised the societal atmosphere of the Cold War in the 1950s.
- The Snow | Heewon LEE (KOR) | 2021 | 2’32
A daily monologue that perpetuates the bond with a loved one who disappeared, whose presence is still close to the spirit and soul, preciously despite the time that went by. I wish to share a moment of poetry, to communicate this feeling which characterizes the human being.
- Regards échangés | Alain LONGUET (FRA) | 2022 | 4’10
Artist Wanda Savy paints eyess that reveal the inner world of her models. The morphing technique brings to life these disturbing glances as they merge into one another. The musical accompaniment by Suzanna Klintcharova, who plays a score for harp and tape by Alexander Kandov, underlines this testimony to real-life moments.
- Leda | Maurice FALISE (FRA) | 2010 | 3’00
Liquid painting, acid sound.
- The Garden | Jérémy GRIFFAUD (FRA) | 2024 | 10’00
Welcome to «The Garden,» a VR experience where you’ll immerse yourself in a fantastical garden filled with unique plant species. The tranquil and Zen-like atmosphere surrounds you as you discover that these plants are not only beautiful but also serve as the backbone of a mysterious technological production.
SIGNATURES LOUNGE :::
Thursday 13 > Sunday 16 March
Digital Lounge
Opening hours:::
Thursday & Saturday: 9:30am > 6pm
Friday & Sunday: 9:30am > 6pm
SIGNATURES EONA :::
Thursday 13 > Sunday 30 March
Eona, 6 avenue Vercingétorix
Opening hours:::
Tuesday to Saturday: 9:30am > 9:30pm
exhibited videos:::
- Crumbs of something like love | Sanglim HAN (KOR) | 2023 | 16’32
Sanglim Han creates a virtual world where materiality implemented through algorithms and digitalized nature coexist based on game engines and VR. As an artist, she is the creator of a world created through sophisticated computer calculations and a collaborator of a computing system that builds 3D simulations and physics engines, creating physical properties that are impossible in reality. The entities of this virtual ecosystem exist in 3D spaces and forms coded with language and execution, transcending the physical laws of reality. The artist becomes a ‘game player’ who explores the created landscape and captures and records the aesthetic moments where unpredictable narratives unfold.
- Vanité à la tulipe | Richard SKRYZAK (FRA) | 2009 | 1’00
The cyclical fall of a tulip petal sets the rhythm of time like an hourglass. Fragility and transience merge in the same temporal sequence.
How often do we witness the fall of a petal? We usually arrive too early or too late. Showing what we can’t see.
- Le volcan et le bébé | Danielle JAEGGI (CHE) | 2024 | 17’05
The Volcano and the Baby shows what goes on in the mind of a woman who is unable to give birth to a child. This failure obsesses her, makes her suffer, and she is plagued by strange and disturbing fantasies.
This plunge into her imagination will give her access to the torments of history, the so-called great history, which has undoubtedly stood in the way of the fulfilment of her desire to be a mother. And for her, this discovery will be a gateway to life.
- Dream’s Navel | Heejong JEONG (KOR) | 2025 | 4’3
Do we fall in love because our bodies are hot? Or do our bodies become hot because we are in love? When I sound out a word in a dream, I sensuously experience what the sound means. As soon as I utter the word hot, I feel like a volcano burning. What lies between meaning and sensation? What is the relationship between sleep and life? A landscape where language slips through a dream unfolds.
- Dernier adieu | Robert CAHEN (FRA) | 1988 | 8’02
Seven glimpses of the Infant Jesus – The view of the Father
- Entangled Emotions Immaculate imperfection (Jamong) | Sanglim HAM (KOR) | 2023 | 0’33
When I look closely at the body, I discover that the body is another ecosystem where different species are intertwined. I am fascinated by the fact that 90% of the human body is composed of microorganisms, not human cells. And the ecosystem where these fragmented entities coexist is constantly changing. The tiny pieces that make up the body are sometimes part of my body, and sometimes they leave the body and float somewhere. So where does the body begin and end?
- Chantier | Anne-Marie ROGNON (FRA) | 2024 | 3’15
Construction site.
- Montenvers et Mer de glace | Robert CAHEN (FRA) | Couleur, musques, co-réalisation S.HUTER | 1987 | 9’07
Tribute to Jacques Tati.
- Aeroam Garden | Sanglim HAN (KOR) | 2024 | 0’10
<Aerial Garden> is a manufactured landscape that resembles reality. Covered in scattered light, an island with a transparent, glassy texture floats in the air in an unknown world. Traces reminiscent of the human body are found all over the island, and the land is covered with flowers with smooth surfaces like plastic. This digital ecosystem exists in coded language and practice as a three-dimensional space and form that transcends the physical laws of reality. This dreamy virtual landscape visually reveals the technical traces of 3D graphics, unravelling the tight knit between reality and artificiality. This work invites the audience into a paradoxical yet beautiful fantasy, offering us a moment of reflection at the intersection of the authenticity and materiality of existence.
- Autoportrait à la bulle | Richard SKRYZAK (FRA) | 2001 | 1’00
This work is part of the In Video Vanitas cycle and is directly inspired by classical Vanitas, a major theme in Western art.
A soap bubble contains the world. Microcosm and macrocosm…
- Entangled Emotions Solid Stickness | Sanglim HAN (KOR) | 2023 | 0’47
When I look closely at the body, I discover that the body is another ecosystem where different species are intertwined. I am fascinated by the fact that 90% of the human body is composed of microorganisms, not human cells. And the ecosystem where these fragmented entities coexist is constantly changing. The tiny pieces that make up the body are sometimes part of my body, and sometimes they leave the body and float somewhere. So where does the body begin and end?
- L’ARC-EN-CIEL | Richard SKRYZAK (FRA) | 2001 | 4’00
Cette œuvre est née de la rencontre fortuite dans un paysage champêtre d’un dispositif d’arrosage et d’un camescope.
- fresh film | Lyazzat KHANIM (KAZ) | 2023 | 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.
- Hold me while I am crushed | Sanglim HAN (KOR) | 2023 | 0’45
The work presented in this exhibition is an archive of the virtual space ecosystem where two digital bodies exist, entangled and embracing each other. Through ‘test fall’ in the created universe, it explores the gaze between the elaborately completed virtual and the reality that continues without end.
- Following bees | Mariana CARRANZA (URY) | 2016 | 1’45
The existence of bees and humans are interdependent. According to Albert Einstein: “If the bees disappear, the human being has only four more years to live; no more bees, no plants, no humans.
- The Same The Other | Bohao LIU (SGP) | 2023 | 8’56
The film with the title borrowed from a collection of poems by Jorge Luis Borges resonates with his meditation on art and identity, montaging some archival footage of the gazed and gazing “person” which is then interpreted by A.I. artificial intelligence by chance with prompts and hashtags.
- Trial plunge | Sanglim HAN (KOR) | 2023 | 0’27
As soon as I “zoom in” on the screen, I become the creator of the virtual world, and can reproduce and manipulate everything. I model two perfectly proportioned human bodies using 3D modeling software, and design the shape’s resistance to deformation and the surface’s elasticity. The digitized body transcends the anatomy of reality and exists not in the mechanisms of bones, muscles, brain and neurons, but in coded language and execution. The world created with points, lines and planes as basic components extends beyond the realm of “nature”, and unfinished reality becomes finished virtuality.