Short-Dreams
Thursday, 15 October, 16:00, Cinématographe
Saturday, 17 October, 17:45, Cinématographe
Un chant d’amour – Jean Genet, 1950, France, 16mm, 23’
Meshes of the Afternoon – Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid, 1943, USA, 16mm, 14’
The Way to Shadow Garden – Stan Brakhage, 1955, USA, 16mm, 10’
Christmas U.S.A. – Gregory J. Markopoulos, 1949, USA, 16mm, 13’
Fragment of Seeking – Curtis Harrington, 1946, USA, DCP, 14’
In presence of Maxime Lachaud
This selection presents five « trance-film » masterpieces from the 40s and the 50s. Ritual-like daydreams. Slumber, fantasies, homosexuality, macabre repressed desires. The filmmakers’ imaginary realms burst within poetic visions on the edge of the fantastic, where the cinematographic form reinvents itself.
– Maxime Lachaud