Claudio Pazienza

A journey inside a picture thus offers the opportunity to travel through Belgium at the approach of the 21st century, and also to bring up a host of questions an what the eye sees: what do we see disappearing under our very eye? Why do we look at specific things? What is a point of view?

A street with pedestrians. Music. A voice reads the credits and clarifies, "This is a very violent film." The action begins: a man crosses the street and enters his flat. He opens the door, puts out the fire under the kettle whistling in the kitchen, and enters the living room…

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Discreetly zany, Ya Rayah collects heterogeneous objects and images. Throughout this list we find smoking shoes, errant typographies, x-rays of feet... The assembly of these materials creates a playful journey, revealing the movement of writing in the process of being written. Where we find the poetic gesture dear to the imagination of ALIS, whose work is inspired by the methods of Oulipo. The approach of ALIS, a group founded by Dominique Soria and Pierre Fourny, is not standard. It focuses on the search for a new expression using different artistic disciplines. Usually their compositions are exhibited on stage or exhibited in art galleries. After La Complaint du Progrès, this film once again opens up, to the music of Dahmane el Harrachi, a rich field of investigation into their joyful and cleverly organized words.

A wild boar hunt, a taxidermist’s skill and the loyal reproduction of Etienne-Jules Marey’s chronophotographic gun, all these the premises for an intimate voyage. An interior voice questions images far off and close. It questions the confusion felt when faced with images. Those images “to part ways with “and those “to invent”. As if this invention could render a lost beauty. Not an exercise in nostalgia, but an unplanned incursion into a universe where all things untangle themselves.

Does mourning have a use-by date... like yogurts? And what exactly does the term "mourning" mean?

Esprit de bière (Beer) is a kind of attempt on an archaeological liquid, mixing the skills of playing truant and the quest for oneself. It makes its own investigation around this gol den drink as a police officer would do around some trivial event. Beer is first analysed as a substanc e, as a matter (real, chemical, physical,...). Then its own cycle will be careful ly studied. The Cycles reach every men in their wishs to create links and exchanges. The Cycles remind us that even beer can be a matter to think about.

A film by Claudio Pazienza.

Belgium | France

At the occasion of a tribute to the Belgian Cinémathèque Royale, this film displays a striking poetic and philosophical mediation on cinematographic images.