A selection of films in which the film's skin is lacerated, torn, cut, peeled off, and glued back together to create cinematic works that evoke sensations of memory, resurfacing buried memories. This program offers critical perspectives on images through the materials whose intimacy these films explore.
BETWEEN US - INTIMACY AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY CHRISTIAN FLEMM Friday, June 27, 2025, at 8:00 PM at Espace En Cours, 56 rue de la Réunion, Paris 20th arrondissement Buzenval, Avron, A. Dumas metro station
Christian Flemm is invited to Espace en Cours to present his first and latest 16mm films alongside film works intertwined with his practice as a teacher and film restorer.
Thursday, January 12, 2023, at 8pm Session : De la roche/About the Rock (in presence of Juliette Agnel) Espace En cours, Paris
Braquage proposes a session revolving around the material of rocks, boulders, stone and their geological or plastic modifications. (Screening with the photographer Juliette Agnel)
The motif of the loop, or more precisely repetition with variations, is one of the formal and thematic principles recurrent in experimental cinema, one of its major functions being to defamiliarize the gaze in a strange paradox. This selection of films offers an overview of different techniques and conceptual variations of this fascinating and troubling motif.
Space is a raw material and a special subject for film: any film is the encounter of a place (be it that of the room or the screen) and an imaginary. The moving image allows a motionless trip, it is a transit that deploys imagination by objectifying. So travel through the images is also a journey in the image: it is this duplicity that underlies all these films, that explore the boundary between the real space and the imaginary that is appropriated or transmitted, be it technical or subjective.
Free admission. Session with the presence of filmmakers Mauricio Hernández and Philippe Cote.
With performances occurring 1-3 times per year, no two Jerusalem In My Heart events have ever been the same: configurations have ranged from 2 to 24 participants, with varying degrees of theatrical stage action alongside a film/video component. Jerusalem In My Heart currently exists around the core of Radwan Ghazi Moumneh carrying musical duties and Montreal filmmaker Charles-André Coderre projecting hand-made visuals using analog 16mm film & 35mm slides on multiple site-specific screen installations. Moumneh's vocals and purposefully blown-out sonic sensibility have been the consistent thread, but the music of JIMH has never repeated itself either – one of the reasons Moumneh has resisted any official documentation or definitive recording of the project over the past eight years. At long last, in 2012 Moumneh cleared time and mental space to record a song cycle that cements the foundations of JIMH as an intensely vocal-driven musical project.
