NEW CINEMA
For the last ten years now, I have been directing fiction and documentary films. Recently, I have become a regular contributor in film schools helping students work towards their careers as writer-directors. There I have met some of the likely talents to watch in the coming years. But times are hard and it is getting harder and harder for these young talents to get themselves known. When they leave school they find themselves unsupported and discouraged. With this in mind, I went to the CENTQUATRE team and offered to go to several film schools in France and in some European countries, in order to seek out strong new films and writers with something to say.
I wanted to make a subjective selection, different from the usual compilations which one often finds in festivals. I wanted to look towards radical, new aesthetics (if they exist) in order to bring out the aspect of research and freedom. By "radical aesthetic", I am talking about an original visual approach and personal subjects, filmed in any format, from DV to mobile phones as well as regular film. It is not a question of promoting any kind of technical excellence, or pure stylistic exercises as sometimes practised in the schools, but of works by authors who reinvent their own view of the world which surrounds them.
I want to approach it without preconceptions, and keep an open mind, free to discover new things, which is why it is difficult for me to define an editorial line for the moment. The selection will evolve over time. I prefer to follow my instinct at first. By agreement with the CENTQUATRE team, we have also decided to exclude all films produced by visual artists in the so-called experimental cinema vein, and stay with a more traditional definition of cinema, one which offers a take on reality, fictional or documentary, rather than dealing with purely visual or artistic concerns.
After several months of research and viewing, a selection of around thirty films will be presented in February 2009, at the occasion of a festival called "New Cinema". These screenings aim to put the directors in touch with the world of production and the industry in general, in order to facilitate their progress in their future projects for feature length films, and to confront them to their first audience.
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LES MODULES
PORTRAIT: NORMAN RICHTER
3 films qui retracent le parcours d’un élève de la HFF de Berlin, où photographie et documentaire s’affirment avec puissance et radicalité.
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PORTRAIT: CLAIRE BURGER
4 films entre essais, documentaire et fiction qui retracent le parcours d’une élève de La femis.
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L’ATELIER DOCUMENTAIRE DE DIDIER NION
Didier Nion encadre un atelier documentaire dans l’école de cinéma de Lausanne : l’ECAL. Il en ressort des journaux filmés en état d’urgence où l’intime s’y révèle avec émotion et sans pudeur.
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FICTIONS
4 fictions sous influences : des séries de télévision au documentaire en passant par le cinéma indé. 4 films venant de Grande-Bretagne, d’Espagne et des Pays-Bas.
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CHILDHOOD
3 films sur l’enfance venant de Pologne, d’Allemagne et de France.
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LOVE
3 films centrés sur l’exploration du sentiment amoureux venant d’Espagne, de Suisse et de France.
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PORTRAIT: NORMAN RICHTER
3 films qui retracent le parcours d’un élève de la HFF de Berlin, où photographie et documentaire s’affirment avec puissance et radicalité.
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VALI ASR - JULY 2006
Norman Richter
Allemagne-Iran, 2007, 35mm, 1.85, couleur, 14 min, muet
Twelve faces are shown. One personal object is assigned to each of the twelve people, except for the last one, a young girl. The people had these objects with them when they were filmed.
Dates de projection
Jeudi 12 février / 19h30-20h30
Vendredi 13 février / 17h30-18h30
Samedi 14 février / 17h-18h
© HFF Potsdam & ZDFdokukanal
SUN IN AN EMPTY ROOM
Norman Richter
Allemagne, 2005, 35 mm, 1.66, couleur, 13 min, sans dialogue
People on a platform surrounded by the sea and
a blue sky. They sun themselves, touch each other,
look at each other. They like what they see in this
idyllic place. Then a triviality brings on the destruction.
Dates de projection
Jeudi 12 février / 19h30-20h30
Vendredi 13 février / 17h30-18h30
Samedi 14 février / 17h-18h
© University of Film and Television Potsdam
