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Video Competition
Saturday, March 15 - 1:00 pm
Salle Boris-Vian, Maison de la Culture, 1 Rue Abbé de l'Épée, Clermont-Ferrand
Will You Come With Me? | Derya Durmaz | 2023 | Germany | 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.
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.
Visions | Maxime Corbeil-Perron | 2024 | Canada | 06’00
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.
Trigger warning: Flashing images
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
Trigger warning: Sexual violences / Self-mutilation / Violence
Revolutions | 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 between March and November 2023 in Nantes, 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.
Exhumation / David Finkelstein / 2025 / USA
A poetic examination of the soil, and the energies buried within it.