To mark the 50th anniversary of the Paris Films Coop, this new season of Refle-x-périmental celebrates the work of experimental film cooperatives founded in the 1960s in a spirit of independence, rebellion and (re)invention of the avant-garde and cinematic thought. From the New York coop to those founded in Hamburg and Amsterdam, not to mention the Paris Films Coop, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2024, this season's programming will culminate in Cinédoc's annual festival Novembre Expérimental #5 - La Jouissance-cinéma.
The second program of Refle-x-périmental is dedicated to cine-portraits. It proposes an exploration of gestures of cinematographic (self)representation based on multiple intersections of the gaze.
From self-portraits (Snow, Unglee) to family (Schefer, Satake), familiar (Mekas, Baillie), or even domestic (Rey) portraits, along with political portraits (Glowczewska, Schefer), these films question the relationship between the filmmakers and their subjects.
