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TURTLE MICHAEL H SHAMBERG "Dedicated to Rob Gretton": Etel Adnan, Amy Antin, Michka Assayas & Grateful Dad, John Baldessari, Francis Baudevin, Catherine Belkhodja, Angelica Bergamini, Anne Bertrand, Anna Blessmann, Robert Breer, Chloé Bressan, Nathan Cash Davidson, Nick Cash, Rosemarie Castoro, Kanerva Cederström, Susan Chorpenning, Jem Cohen, Anna Corbera, Natalie Curtis, Jamie Dalglish, Wynn Dan, Eloïse Decazes, Beth De’Loiselle, Bernadette Drouillot, Anna Faroqhi, Simone Fattal, Joshua Frankel, Lesley Gilbert, Liam Gillick, Greg Harriott, Robert Huot, Tae Hwang, Marie-France Jean, Ziba Karbassi,Elisabeth Karolyi, Daniel Katarina, Martina Klein, Leonard Kogan, Melissa Kretschmer, Dorian Kutos, Chris Marker, Julian Mereuta, Stanton Miranda, Antoine Moreau, Geert Mul, Frédéric Nauczyciel, Melodie Owen, New Order, Eugénie Paultre, Gilles Plazy, Amos Poe, Robert Preston, Yvonne Rainer, Ned Richardson, Peter Saville, Michael Shamberg, Kim Schoenstadt, Ali Smith, Malin Ståhl, Rachel Stella, Eiji Suzue, Ryo Takahashi, Nancy Van Meter, Sarah Waller, Kirsten Weiner, Lawrence Weiner, Viola Wm, Alice Zimmerman 17 octobre - 22 octobre 2011 arT mUsic peRformance poeTry fiLm Exhibition
TURTLE MICHAEL H SHAMBERG Dedicated to Rob Gretton
17 octobre – 22 octobre 2011
Galerie Ivana de Gavardie 10 rue des Beaux-Arts 75006 Paris à partir de 14h30/from 2:30pm
contact : Arnaud Lefebvre + 33 (0)6 81 33 46 94
Etel Adnan, Amy Antin, Michka Assayas & Grateful Dad, John Baldessari, Francis Baudevin, Catherine Belkhodja, Angelica Bergamini, Anne Bertrand, Anna Blessmann, Robert Breer, Chloé Bressan, Nathan Cash Davidson, Nick Cash, Rosemarie Castoro, Kanerva Cederström, Susan Chorpenning, Jem Cohen, Anna Corbera, Natalie Curtis, Jamie Dalglish, Wynn Dan, Eloïse Decazes, Beth De’Loiselle, Bernadette Drouillot, Anna Faroqhi, Simone Fattal, Joshua Frankel, Lesley Gilbert, Liam Gillick, Greg Harriott, Robert Huot, Tae Hwang, Marie-France Jean, Ziba Karbassi,Elisabeth Karolyi, Daniel Katarina, Martina Klein, Leonard Kogan, Melissa Kretschmer, Dorian Kutos, Chris Marker, Julian Mereuta, Stanton Miranda, Antoine Moreau, Geert Mul, Melodie Owen, Frédéric Nauczyciel, New Order, Eugénie Paultre, Gilles Plazy, Amos Poe, Robert Preston, Yvonne Rainer, Ned Richardson, Peter Saville, Michael Shamberg, Kim Schoenstadt, Ali Smith, Malin Ståhl, Rachel Stella, Eiji Suzue, Ryo Takahashi, Nancy Van Meter, Sarah Waller, Kirsten Weiner, Lawrence Weiner, Viola Wm, Alice Zimmerman
TURTLE SALON : Lundi 17 octobre 14h30 Malin Stahl “Going Nowhere” vidéo Antoine Moreau “je me vois en” video Michael Shamberg New Order video “Blue Monday”, “Run”, True Faith” ... Melody Owen “quebec”, “prairie fire”, “explosions”, “boat”, “polar bear”, “white whale”, “white wolves”, “iceland”, “pressed” video Anna Faroqhi “Grenzgänger” video Frederic Nauczyciel"Where did all the fun go ?" video 19h Ryo Takahashi “Vent Coulis” video 19h Marie-France Jean L’oiseau tache se situe dans
l’espace-paysage de la feuille de papier. 19h15 Chloé Bressan et Gilles Plazy Poésie/Duo/Canal une lecture-performance. Présentation Etel Adnan Ce dialogue est une adaptation par ses deux auteurs du livre La Poésie, la tarte aux pommes et le topinambour de saint Augustin (La Part Commune, 2011) établi d’après la correspondance entretenue par eux en courriels de 2008 à 2010. Il s’agit d’une réflexion à deux voix, tout à fait sérieuse, sur la poésie considérée comme pratique littéraire certes, mais encore plus comme souffle vital disant une manière d’être au monde. Ils ne craignent pas de le dire : la poésie peut bien être une affaire spirituelle, sans pour autant nous faire perdre le sens de l’humour… Chloé Bressan Ecrivaine et comédienne, née à Brive la Gaillarde (Corrèze) en 1980, elle a été maquilleuse pour le cinéma et calligraphe pour le doublage de séries télé avant de s’orienter vers le théâtre comme auteure et comme comédienne. Très tôt requise par la poésie, et marquée particulièrement dès l’âge de vingt ans par Yves Bonnefoy et Rainer Maria Rilke, elle a repris tard ses études, en littérature anglaise (William Blake, William Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf…) et en théâtre pour la théorie (Artaud, Grotowski, Claudel, Ionesco, Becket) et pour la pratique (cours de Raymond Acquaviva). Elle est l’auteure de poèmes, nouvelles et pièces de théâtre. Son expérience double d’auteure et de comédienne lui permet aussi d’animer des ateliers d’expression poétique. Gilles Plazy Ecrivain et plasticien, né le 2 janvier 1942. Diplômé de l’Institut d’Etudes Politique de Paris. Longtemps journaliste pour divers journaux ou magazines. A été aussi pendant deux ans conseiller de programme auprès du directeur de France Culture. Membre de l’Association internationale des critiques d’art. A publié depuis 1970 une cinquantaine d’ouvrages parmi lesquels des romans, des nouvelles, des poèmes (L’Amande intérieure, La Part Commune, 2008), des biographies (Pablo Picasso, Eugène Ionesco, Gustave Courbet, Marlene Dietrich), des études consacrées à différents artistes (Cézanne, Van Gogh, Matisse, le Douanier Rousseau, Fra Angelico, Chagall) et écrivains (Julien Gracq, Henry Miller, Georges Perros, Tristan Corbière, René Char), une Histoire de l’art en images (Adam Biro, 1999) L’Aventure des grands impressionnistes (Pygmalion, 2003), La Femme impressionniste, (Adam Biro, 2003).
Mardi 18 octobre 14h30 Amos Poe ”Empire II” film 19h-19h45 Nick Cash “Live Transmissions” Sons + vidéo Nick Cash , percussionist with cult bands, Fad Gadget, prag VEC, The Lines, Thick Pigeon, Unmen. and The Members is bringing a new solo show to Paris under the Turtle Salon banner, the anarchic salon curated by Michael Shamberg. “Live Transmissions” Features Cash playing live percussion, electronics and a crude stringed instrument he has created for this event. Videos made by artists, filmmakers and musicians in collaboration with Cash will be shown in conjunction with the performance. The videos will be projected with Cash playing along live to augment, highlight and at times be in opposition to the soundtrack. The evening will also see the debut release by Honky’s With Humility, titled“Films About Music”— Nick Cash’s first solo album.
New Order au Bataclan
Mercredi 19 octobre 14h30 Empty Room with Casual Sound, A project of Julian Mereuta with Eiji Suzue, Ned Richardson, Malin Stahl, Stanton Miranda, Kim Schoenstadt, Law and Fiction, Corpstrain 15h30 Jem Cohen “The Lost Book Found” film 16h30 Joshua Frankel “Plan of The City” film 17h Rosemarie Castoro “River of Street” vidéo 17h30 Irit Batsry “A Simple Case of Vision” film
Jeudi 20 octobre 14h30 Robert Huot “Face of Faces”, “Scratch”,“Spray” films 15h Dorian Kutos , “Knife and the Wound”, Short films : “Transportation”, “Study in Line And Color”, “Shape of Rage”, “Existentialist Waltz”, “Viva Zulueta” 19h Eloïse Decazes Récital Furtif (voix, concertina) Récital Furtif Performé par Eloïse Decazes
( voix, concertina) 19h45 Grateful Dad. Performance et chansons de l'écrivain Michka Assayas. Michka (chant, ukulélé et basse) ; Raige P. (guitare) ; Antoine Assayas (percussions). En août 1980, j'achète chez New Rose, à Paris, Closer, le second et ultime album, déjà posthume, de Joy Division. J'ai vingt et un ans. Je sais que ce disque va être pour moi une révélation. New Order, le groupe qui a succédé à Joy Division, est à la source de mon amitié avec Michael Shamberg. Grâce à lui, je peux assister en 1985 au tournage à Manchester de la vidéo de « The Perfect Kiss » de New Order. Un moment magique. Ces années-là, écrire sur la musique est pour moi une nécessité. Voire une mission. Je le fais à Rock & Folk et à Libération. Vingt ans après, en 2006, mon fils Antoine (alors quinze ans) apprend la batterie. Pour passer du temps avec lui, je me mets à la guitare basse. Je découvre aussi le ukulélé. Quatre cordes, c'est plus simple que six. Je retrouve mes bases (précaires) de guitariste et joue spontanément en accords sur ma basse, ce qui est curieux. Je découvre que je chante et que c'est un besoin. Je trouve des bribes de chansons magiques, entre folk, punk-rock et psychédélisme. Un ami guitariste, Raige, venu du curieux groupe parisien Françoise, m'aide à les structurer. Il a une patience d'ange avec moi. Ce soir, je ferai de la musique pour Michael comme s'il était chez moi, dans mon salon. — M.A.
Vendredi 21 Octobre 14h30 Kanerva Cederström présentation et film “Tove and Tooti in Europe” 16h Michael Shamberg “p.s. beirut” film Sarah Waller “ Burn” film Greg Harriott “Under” film Geert Mull video 19h Rachel Stella Banier-Bettencourt, deux histoires hypocrites. Présentation et films Qu’en est-il de Turtle? J'ai reflechi à ma participation. Je voudrais faire acte, à ma manière, d'indignation. Ainsi ma présentation s'intitule Banier-Bettencourt, sous le signe de l'hypocrisie. Il s'agit de 2 films que j'ai produit: 13 minutes sur François-Marie Banier et ensuite 46 minutes sur Pierre Bettencourt, le beau-frère de Liliane. On trompe un peu sur la marchandise, car Pierre ne dit rien de Liliane Bettencourt. Mais exploiter la curiosité malsaine du public est stratégique, n'est-ce pas?
Samedi 22 Octobre 14h30 Elisabeth Károlyi.Il faut que les bruits deviennent musique", in Robert Bresson, “Notes sur le
cinématographe”, Paris, 1975 16h Melissa Kretschmer “Passage”, “Spiral Gritty” video Daniel Katarina “In Conversation With Sócrates” video 17h30 Catherine Belkhodja, lecture Quand nous sommes las du Réel, la
recherche perpétuelle de la case manquante permet de saturer l’esprit jusqu’à
la résolution de l’énigme. C’est plus puissant que le prozac, sans devoir subir
les effets secondaires. Les accros au prozac veulent voir la vie en
rose. Vous lez reconnaîtrez au sourire niais qu’ils arborent, et à leur
fébrilité excessive au moment du sevrage. 18h30 Anne Bertrand August at the New York Public Library lecture Critique, Anne Bertrand enseigne l’histoire de l’art à l’École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, où elle est responsable des éditions. En 2009, elle a publié “Le Présent de Robert Frank”. Photographie et films (D’une certaine manière éditions, La Rochelle), l'année suivante, “Yves Chaudouët” (Actes Sud, Arles), et en 2011, elle a dirigé l'anthologie “Tacita Dean. Écrits choisis 1992-2011” (coll. « Que dit l'artiste ? », École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg). Elle prépare actuellement, sous la direction de François Brunet et de Michel Poivert, une thèse sur les écrits et propos de Walker Evans.
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Films and videos IRIT BATSRY “A Simple Case of Vision” by Irit
Batsry, with sound track by Stuart Jones http://www.iritbatsry.com ROSEMARIE CASTORO “River of Street” (2011) 23 min. When finally able to ride my bicycle through the New York City streets on February 27, 2011, after an entire winter of constant snow storms, my helmet camera tracked a journey of discovery after a few days of dirty snow drifting. "Snow Jobs" were first discovered in 2003, passing by foot along West Houston Street, noting configurations that changed slightly over a period of a few days until collapsing. 2010 and 2011 snow storms gave me an opportunity to discover amusing images during my walking days. — Rosemarie Castoro http://www.rosemariecastoro.com
KANERVA CEDERSTRÖM “Tove and Tooti in Europe”, 2004 - 57 min 38 s “Tove and Tooti in Europe” is a documentary of the voyages in Europe of author Tove Jansson and graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä. It is a lyrical and sometimes hilarious film essay of the “Old Europe”, experienced by travellers and observers, of the times when people used to wander, laugh, dwell and stop. The locations of the film are Paris, Venice, London, Madrid and Dublin ; Iceland, Ireland and Corsica.
JEM COHEN “The Lost Book Found” (1996, 37 min.) http://jemcohenfilms.com The result of over five years of Super-8 and 16mm filming on New York City streets, Lost Book Found melds documentary and narrative into a complex meditation on city life. The piece revolves around a mysterious notebook filled with obsessive listings of places, objects, and incidents. These listings serve as the key to a hidden city: a city of unconsidered geographies and layered artifacts—the relics of low-level capitalism and the debris of countless forgotten narratives. The project stems from the filmmaker's first job in New York—working as a pushcart vendor on Canal Street. As usual, Cohen shot in hundreds of locations using unobtrusive equipment and generally without any crew. Influenced by the work of Walter Benjamin, Cohen created "an archive of undirected shots and sounds, then set out to explore the boundary" between genres. During the process, Cohen said, "I found connections between the street vendor, Benjamin's 'flaneur', and my own work as an observer and collector of ephemeral street life." (© http://arttorrents.blogspot.com/)
ANNA FAROQHI “Grenzgänger” (All Along the Border) 2011, 6:30 min Documentary by school children at Workshop Deutsche Guggenheim. Edited and produced by Anna Faroqhi and Haim Peretz.
JOSHUA FRANKEL “Plan of The City”.2011, 13 minutes Plan of the City is a new animated film, conceived and directed by Joshua Frankel, about the architecture of New York City blasting off into outer space and resettling on Mars. The film's visuals are an animated collage combining live action footage, animated elements, illustrations and treated photographs, including photos taken by the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity made available to the public domain by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
GREG HARRIOTT “Under”:
What began as an underwater cinematography experiment, grew into the short film
Under through a series of dreams and inspiration from reading first hand
accounts with shamans. In “Under”, a shaman and his son are captured by a
powerful rival, the Tall Man, who sends the father to an underwater
netherworld. The father tries to surface but is held back by obstacles
that the Tall Man sends through various portals on the surface.
Eventually the son intervenes to help the father surface and banishes their
enemies to their own underwater fate. The underwater sequences are shot
with a custom built underwater housing for the Panasonic HVX200, and were
filmed in a pool and freshwater springs.
ROBERT HUOT “Face of Faces” (1976) (sound-on-tape) 4-3/4 min. B&W. Silent (16FPS) N.B. Soundtrack on cassette. “…a film of four superimposed images of four different expressions, which fuse to create an image of a single multi-featured being.”—Scott MacDonald, “The Films of Robert Huot: 1967 to 1972”, Quarterly Review of Film Studies, Summer 1980. “This film is the quadruple superimposition of four faces, two men and two women. These images often appear to be one fantastic undulating face perpetually changing. The images are shot thru a circular mat in an attempt to get away from the dominant rectangular film image (much as earlier filmmakers have done). I have recently added a sound track, on separate cassette tape. It is the Talking Head’s ‘Seen and Not Seen.’ The film can be viewed with or without the track—or first with, then without.” —Robert Huot.
“Scratch” (1966-67) 11 min. B&W. Silent (24FPS). “Leader” and “Scratch” are extensions of Huot’s early interest in minimalism. They are successful in reducing the number of filmic variables so completely that essential qualities and potentials of the materials of film can be felt. While “Scratch” is nothing more than eleven minutes of dark leader with a continuous handmade scratch, the resulting imagery varies a good deal, depending on how deeply Huot dug into the emulsion : when the scratch is shallow, for example, it seems to bead and move up through the image ; when the scratch is deep, it seems to remain within the frame, vibrating horizontally. “Leader” is a bit less extreme than Scratch. Framed within beginning and ending passages of academy leader, strips of black, green, and clear leader alternate, at first every thirty seconds, then more and more quickly, and finally much more slowly. These regular alternations intensify our awareness of some of the potential variations in the direction and mode of our attention during screening. When green leader is projected, continual shifts in color density tend to keep the eye attentive to the screen. During passages of black leader, on the other hand, the screen is so dark that it provides almost nothing to look at ; as a result, one’s attention tends to be drawn to other light sources, especially to the projector, if it is within the screening space. When clear leader is projected, we are aware both of the tiny events occurring on the screen and of the lighted screening space.—Scott MacDonald,“The Films of Robert Huot: 1967 to 1972”, Quarterly Review of Film Studies, Summer 1980.
“Spray” (1967) 11-1/2 min. B&W. Silent (24FPS) An extraordinary ebbing and flowing, dotting and pulsing ‘abstract’ field film. The filmmaker-painter Huot painted this film by spray painting a 12 minute length of clear film. When projected this single gesture contains a fascinating atomized space.—Michael Snow.
DANIEL KATARINA “In Conversation With Sócrates” [2011] 10 minutes, HD Video [1920x1080
25P] What kind of Art I do is a tricky
question I have never really managed to answer but I organise events and
exhibitions (sometimes regularly like the susak expo biennale that started in 2006)
and sometimes as one day shows set up in the small slots of time that gallery
have empty between shows (like the Madagascar show last June) and publish books
and sometime make videos.
MELISSA KRETSCHMER “Passage” video, 2005, 3 min 13 sec “Spiral Gritty” vidéo, 2005, 40 sec. In the light of his retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York combined with the realization of his proposal for "Floating Island" making a tour around the island of Manhattan, the genius of Robert Smithson has been very much present. So it is that "Spiral Gritty" came to be. The ground of "Spiral Gritty" consists of a failed attempt by Carl Andre at inorganic farming with iron oxide and household chemicals on a cracked dinnerplate. The spiral is made of fine crushed stone laid out on that crystal-crusted surface. The film was made on a small digital camera. Keeping to the spirit of Smithson and his concept of entropy, I continued to document "Spiral Gritty" as it disintegrated in the changing weather, scattered by wind, pummeled by rain and baked in the city heat. While it is clear that Smithson was utterly serious about his art, I believe he would have appreciated the humour in this homage. It is my tribute to an artist whose works and thoughts have been, and continue to be, deeply important to me as an artist. Melissa Kretschmer, 13 October 2005 http://www.melissakretschmer.com
DORIAN KUTOS “Knife and the Wound” This is my second feature film (the first is still being edited). This film is a collection of memories about the demise of my parent's marriage, stories they told me and events that happened in my personal life. Everything that takes place in this film, has a counterpart in reality (everything in it is based on true events, no exception). The narrative of the film deals with the disintergration of a marriage, but this narrative is intterupted by One; a parrallel film that adapts a poem entitled "Summer With Monika" that describes the blooming and decaying of a relationship in a playful surreal way, (which in truth sets the tone of the whole film, where the images aspire to a kind of psychological realsim, that conveys the emotional truth in a more accurate way than if I employed absolute, stark realism) and Two; real life interviews with cast members about the film they are acting in and things about their own personal relationships. The film becomes a sort of stained glass window, or mosaic about relationships, and the relationship of the actors to the film itself, and the director to the actors and the film. Levels of reality are built up inside the film and then deconstructed or completely exposed. It was only my second attempt at directing a feature film, so ofcourse there is alot of amatuerish elements. I hope this film doesn't send you screaming from your tv. I hope there is some little glimmer of artistry you can appreciate in this film. Short film : “Transportation” - an exercise in interpreting a poem through purely visual and rythmic means. The "Hope" of Randall Jerrell Warner's poem is represented as a newly built bridge constructed after the destruction of Hurricane Katrina. The intertitles are in Greek for irreverant reasons. “Study in Line And Color” - Title says it all. All hand painted or scratched into leader. “Shape of Rage” - An attempt to recreate the mental state of intense, disorienting rage. “Existentialist Waltz” - A collaborative effort where my friend Adrian did the music and I put it images. (the spelling is very important, it must be spelled ExISTENtialist with the letters ISTEN capatilized within the word.) “Viva Zulueta”, - A tribute to the great Spanish film maker who sadly passed away. “Second Attempt
at Belson” - Here I try my hand at the
style of film making pioneered by Jordan Belson ANTOINE MOREAU “je me vois en”, (durée : 03,10 mn), juillet 2011. Musique : JP Papy, Le miroir in album Volume 7, 2006, copyleft Licence Art Libre.Copyleft : this video is free, you can copy it, distribute it and modify it according to the terms of the Free Art License http://artlibre.org http://antoinemoreau.org
GEERT MUL FREDERIC NAUCZYCIEL “Where did all the fun go ?” Feat. Francesca (New York) Film 5'42" Extrait de l'installation The Fire Flies, Francesca (Baltimore) © Frédéric Nauczyciel, 2011 Programme Hors les Murs, Institut Français, Etats-Unis, 2011 "Where did all the fun go ?" fait partie d'une série de films et enregistrements sonores réalisés avec un Iphone, durant un voyage de 5 mois à Baltimore, en passant par New York et Washington. Ces enregistrements documentent une traversée intime de la masculinité en milieu hostile et accompagnent un travail photographique avec les Voguers de Baltimore et la rencontre avec Francesca à New York. http://seeyoutomorrow.free.fr/ MELODY OWEN dvd quebec 3:52, prairie fire 2:22; explosions :38, boat 1:57, polar bear 2:04; white whale 4:13, white wolves 2:17, iceland 4:57, pressed 1:26 I am consistently focused on communication, intersections and tensions that occur between animals/nature/humans/technology. I keep returning visually and conceptually to the concept of particles and of unity, the way that many parts come together to make a whole. I am thinking of both matter and mind. I expressed this concept early on with installed multiples, many pennies, many hummingbird feeders. In video, I explore it with the meeting of eyes. The passage of time, the perception of time. “The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.” This quote by Leonardo da Vinci expresses a concept of integration and interconnectedness that continually fascinates me. The earth is crashing all around us now. I am especially worried about the environment. I am very concerned for the animals and trees. Millions of people are constantly staring at tiny screens now. What does this mean for us? I make work using both chance and decision. I make collage or sculpture depending on the materials at hand. I like to incorporate travel into my work. My interests spread across all the disciplines I practice. I make things in Quebec which could have only have been made in Quebec, same with Iceland, and Portland. I integrate technology into my work. The tactile/analog and the digital live side by side. I got my rules for living out of a storybook. Some of my videos are drawings, some are collage, some are collected from others, some I shot myself. Brigitte Bardot represents the spinning endless madness of beauty and love. The whale seems to speak. A lions roar. Time is a running theme and I am peeling away at it as it is peeling away at me. And what is that golden thread? Melody Owen, October 11, 2011 http://thistlepress.net
AMOS POE ”Empire II” 3h http://www.amospoe.com "A tone-poem meditation on the city of our dreams. With music by Patti Smith, Jim Carroll, Lucinda Williams, Jeff Buckley, Jimmie James, Steve Earle, Cassis Staudt, Max Nova, Gram Rabbit, Peggy Lee, Allison Moorer, Hysterics, Debbie Harry, B.B. King, Pink Martini, ... and many more."
MICHAEL SHAMBERG “p.s. beirut” "a bricolage of scars, traces of repair, iconic meditations on the other side of war" MHS From http://www.vimeo.com/13620616 “p.s. beirut chapter 1” 2008, 7:11 minutes, color, stereo 4:3 Producer, director, camera, editor: Michael H. Shamberg Writer: Etel Adnan Music: Marcus Acher Co-Producers: Isabelle Doyen, Edward Richardson for lightblack Emanuelle Riva (voice) Bernard Sumner (singing Procession, New Order) Nadine in Cafe Torino Fouad Elkoury Etel Adnan (off camera) Man in Bourj Hammoud Hiba's hand Beirut Director' Notes: In 1981 Volker Schlondorff was filming CIRCLE OF DECEIT in Beirut with the ongoing civil war (1975-90) as a backdrop, and real fighters playing themselves. This news, which i discovered in Etel Adnan's story AN AMERICAN MALADY, brought Etel and I together to develop the feature script BENJAMIN'S BRIEFCASE - a reference to what was lost when Walter Benjamin's body was found. Christmas 2004, I arrived in Beirut and filmed for two weeks. The idea of a feature transformed into a personal journey. This is the first chapter in the series p.s. Beirut, the story of how I found Benjamin's briefcase. MHS 2008
New Order videos see http://www.galeriearnaudlefebvre.com/bio.php?bio=75 MALIN STÅHL “Going Nowhere”, 4:38 min., 2011. Slowly the headlights of a car capture the figure of a woman dressed up as a deer, posing, escaping, stopping, posing. On another stretch of road a rabbit is caught in the headlights, it is the woman again, but this time more in character of an animal caught in headlights, running, running across, running away. Using the characters White Canary (Deer), Death and the Rabbit the artist acts out a drama of dress-up, disguise and slight confusion framed by images of a winters landscape and set to tunes of jazz music. RYO TAKAHASHI “Vent Coulis” La Marche de Marie-France Jean, 2011, 12 min. http://www.galeriearnaudlefebvre.com/exhibit.php?exhibit=84 SARAH WALLER Filmmaker's Statement: “ Burn”
was inspired by the work of photographer Cindy Sherman and the late filmmaker
Maya Deren. A young woman interacts with her physical environment through
abstract movement. The woman takes on alternate characters in every new room
she inhabits. The claustrophobic space she resides in slowly burns into her
psyche and finally gives way to the natural world and the expansiveness of a
winter horizon. “Burn” is a surreal reflection on the multiple roles women take
on, ranging from a housewife to a sultry femme fatale.
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Exhibit Images  Francis Baudevin  Nick Cash  vitrine  Kim Schoenstadt & Michael Shamberg  Kim Schoenstadt & Michael Shamberg t-shirts Turtle, N. Cash  poster Nick Cash, designed by Sofia Stevi Ali Smith, Nathan Cash Davidson, Ryo Takahashi  vue d'ensemble  Eugénie Paultre  vue d'ensemble  vue d'ensemble  Simone Fattal  Robert Huot "Scratch"  Bernadette Drouillot, Nancy Van Meter, Beth De'Loiselle, Martina Klein, Robert Breer, Eugénie Paultre  Chris Marker, Martina Klein, Nancy Van Meter, Beth De'Loiselle, Susan Chorpenning, Eloïse Decazes  Joshua Frankel, Natalie Curtis, Wynn, Dan, Susan Chorpenning  Natalie Curtis "Slater says" 2011, photo  Catherine Belkhodja, Ned Richardson, Melodie Owen, Julian Mereuta, Amy Antin, Melissa Kretschmer  Anna Blessmann & Peter Saville edition  Ali Smith, Nathan Cash Davidson, New Order & Peter Saville, Anna Blessmann & Peter Saville  Ali Smith "Virginia Woolf's Glasses"  Anna Blessmann & Peter Saville edition  Malin Ståhl  Anna Corbera, Jamie Dalglish, Leonard Kogan, Liam Gillick  Jamie Dalglish "Temporary Art"  Jamie Dalglish ' Angel’ 20.75” x 30.25"  Anna Corbera  Yvonne Rainer, Ziba Karbassi, Etel Adnan  Yvonne Rainer Poems p.1  Yvonne Rainer Poems p.2  Ziba Karbassi Poem BLOOD HOME DANCE (MOTHER LAND DANCE) p.1  Ziba Karbassi Poem BLOOD HOME DANCE (MOTHER LAND DANCE) p.2  Robert Preston, John Baldessari, Marie-France Jean, Alice Zimmerman, Frédéric Nauczyciel, Ziba Karbassi  Where did all the fun go ? Feat. Francesca, New York 2011 Capture écran © Frédéric Nauczyciel  Marie-France Jean, Tae Hwang, Kirsten Weiner, Alice Zimmerman, Lawrence Weiner, New Order  Angelica Bergamini, New Order  Eloïse Decazes  Eric Chenaux, guitariste Eloïse Decazes  Michka Assayas  Michka Assayas, Raige P.  Grateful Dad |