CJC: Preview 2010
Thursday September 9th 2010, 21h
La Clef, 21 rue de la Clef, 75005 Paris

For this re-entry session, we wanted to present a selection of films that have recently joined the Collectif Jeune Cinema Catalogue. Proposed by Laurence Rebouillon, this programme opens a season on "Perspectives", where we seek to increase contact between young creations and historical films. Note: The regular meetings of the CJC change day from Fridays to Thursdays! We hope to meet you there many times throughout the year.

Programme:
- There is no G.O.D. without R.G.B. (Clint Enns, 2008)
A homage to Brakhage using techniques inspired by PaperRad. Digitized film leader painted frame by frame in MS paint.
- La Perle (Marguerite Lantz, 2007)
A woman is transforming herself into a picture.
- Magia (Gérard Cairaschi, 2010)
A young boy molds objects with clay that he then manipulates, combines and associates, in an obscure ritual. As the objects/representations he creates combine and develop a narrative, the fast alternation of images on the screen imbricate and shape images/apparitions that only the “lanterna magica” of cinema and the magic of editing allow. Magica means enchantment.
- Mur Blanc Eau Noire (Daphné Le Sergent, 2009)
The video shows a series of pictures of Belfast's peacelines (walls between catholic and protestant districts). A wall slowly appears under which water is flowing (the wall, which crosses a stream, was built in Alexandra Park to prevent conflicts between teenagers in the beginning of the 90s). This water spouts out, coming first as the contrast of a moving image against still images; then it dissolves the peaceline pictures, giving birth to a rhythm of alternating black walls and white scum, eventually leading to a flicker (a syncopated alternation of black and white). This break through the walls, through this border, thus echoes the current screening room and the real wall as well as any constraints to the self.
- D’Ici (Eric Bouttier, 2007)
Kerhouarn, Meriadec: a small place in Brittany, territory of origin and place of childhood. Each new voyage causes the same rediscoveries, each return to these sources sees re-appearing the same rituals, the same small ceremonies, and reactivates the same images, starts the same reminiscences, recurrences of scenes which however never resemble each other completely.
- Portrait of an Imagined Woman with Totems & Domestic Detail (Caitlin Horsmon, 2004)
A meditation on expanded portraiture, “Portrait of an Imagined Woman with Totems and Domestic Detail” coobles a feminine figure through glimpses of the animal and the lived - predator, prey and extreme close-ups of domestic epiphanies.
- Série BB n°2 : Blanblan/noir ou ‘le savon noir’ (Carole Contant, 2006)
Portrait of Blandine Beauvy (BB) reading black soap, a Francis Ponge book, and a Chomsky book.
- Prepare to Qualify (Clint Enns, 2008)
A circuit bent Atari filled with self doubt struggles to qulify as ‘good’ or ‘valid’ art.
- Broken Windows (Richard O’Sullivan, 2009)
Broken Windows consists of the last footage shot with a digital camcorder - these are the dying gasps of the camera. On one level, the piece might serve as a de-mystification of the digital image itself; the degradation of the image broadly implies the processes by which the real world is interpreted as video. Video’s constitution of the world as image is laid bare, and it is disconcerting to see the torturous decay of the image as the camera fights to maintain its simulation of the world.
- Back + Forth (Clint Enns, 2009)
Shot entirely in one take. This film documents the happenings on one of the strangest streets in Winnipeg.
- Tree Stain Man (homage to Stan) (Peter Snowdon, 2007)
An experimental round dance in three movements, composed using footage of trees taken in Oxford in spring 2001. My first ever roll of Kodachrome 40. A homage to the life-in-work of Stan Brakhage.
- Winnipeg stories: sacrificial memories (Clint Enns, 2008)
An experimental film made from discarded film footage found in thrift shops and flea markets in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Music is eu un miroir, obscurment by natural snow buildings.
- Themes and variations for the naked eye (Caitlin Horsmon, 2007)
Themes and Variations for the Naked Eye borrows objects from the still life and transforms them through the use of the extreme close-up. A curious character evokes sensuality through touch, taking the audience through excavations of a series of bodies and creating a reflection on synchresis, objecthood and interiority.

Croatia's 25FPS Experimental Film & Video Festival keeps growing each year and is becoming one of the most interesting festivals in Europe. This year's edition will take place from 21 to 26 September in the city of Zagreb, and features a competitive section with 48 short films (selected out of 1500 submissions) screened in eight themed programmes. The section Focus on Croatia will present a selection of recent film and video works from the Balkan country. Legendary Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka will introduce two programmes of his films (Metaphoric cinema and Metric cinema) and give lectures on his cinema. The festival jury, formed by Florian Wüst (Germany), Leila Topic (Croatia) and Joost Rekveld (Netherlands) is also the protagonist with one programme curated by each member. This year's edition continues offering a special space dedicated to expanded cinema, with four performances by Bruce McClure, Phill Niblock and Ivan Marušic Klif, Hrvoje Nikšic, Hrvoje Radnic & Ivan Cadež.