Projections au Centre tchèque dans le cadre de la participation à la 17ème édition du festival international indépendant du film documentaire Signes de Nuit.
Le festival propose des films et créations audio-visuelles de tous horizons, et de formes multiples. Ceux-ci ont le mérite d’expérimenter de nouveaux langages esthétiques, tout en s’intéressant à des thématiques différentes et aux problèmes de nos sociétés contemporaines. L’objectif du festival et des films qu’il promeut, est de mettre en place une communication globale qui échappe aux effets simplificateurs des médias de masse.
Les créations proposées présentent un travail original dans plusieurs domaines artistiques : son, composition musicale, image, mouvement, rythme, texte, espace et éclairage. Leur but est non seulement esthétique, mais vise aussi à permettre communication et compréhension des spectateurs de différentes origines, en les sensibilisant aux espaces culturels divers et parfois étranges. Nous dirons que cela peut être du «cinéma engagé» .
Informations sur le festival : http://www.signesdenuit.com/paris/P17/E_H.htm
Pour la première fois, le Centre tchèque est partenaire du Festival et accueille pendant deux jours plusieurs projections.
Programme au Centre tchèque de Paris
Focus Czech 1
En présence et Q&A avec Damián Vondrášek
Together (Spolu) / Damián Vondrášek / Republic Czech / 2015 / 0:07:00
He decides to rob a car to prove her love. A romance from the suburbs
on the edge of society.
Imprisoned (Vĕzení) / Damián Vondrášek/ Republic Czeck / 2016 / 0:27:00
An offer of a job as a prison educator could help unemployed teacher
Jakub resolve a difficult family situation. His father-in-law
exacerbates his already low self-confidence, and the man most
certainly imagined a different kind of son-in-law. The claustrophobic
feelings Jakub experiences at the prison, however, lead him to a
single question: Does he want to control others the rest of his life
or be controlled by them?
Focus Czech 2
Sugar (Cukr) / Tereza Vejdová / Czech Republic / 2019 0:25:00
Eighteen year old Maria strives to stand on her own feet. She lives
with her boyfriend but secretly works as a sugarbaby, providing
company to older men. The film explores the theme of closeness as a
commodity, in a society where capitalist principles rub off onto
personal relationships.
Reconstruction (Rekontrukce) / Ondrej Novak / Czech Republic / 2017 / 00:15:52 /
Olda is waiting for his trial in a detention centre for juveniles. He
tries to fill the void and forget about the recent past. The monotone
prison life is slowly intertwined with testimonies about his brutal
assault of a homeless man.
Easter (Lễ Phųc Sinh) / Chih Chieh Wu / Czech Republic / 2017 / 00:10:23 /
In order to offer a better future to her daughter, a Vietnamese mother
migrated to Czech Republic. She even hired a Czech nanny to help her
daughter fit in better in Czech society. However, she starts to feel
alienated from her daughter.
Autism as a gift / Josef Dvorak / Czech Rep. / 2017 / 00:26:00 /
The documentary AUTISM AS A GIFT is a sensitive testimony from the
parents of a nine-year-old autistic boy Ángel. They look at their
son's "disability" or "peculiarity" from a different perspective than
most of the society: to them it is a gift. Opportunity for
self-knowledge and self-education.
Waves (Vlnění) / Vojtěch Domlátil / Czech Rep. / 2017 / 00:03:00 /
An observer, who clears his mind to work with time and space. He not
only reaches certain pixilation ecstasy, but also, if he joins "the
wave", his way absorbs him completely. Non-narrative pixilation of the
Czech landscape.
Nabbin / Kat Tolkovsky / Czech Republic / 2018 / 00:30:00 /
The documentary is my coming of age among a community of Gypsies in
Nabbin, a small village in the Czech Republic. In the film I portray
the uninhibited and inspiring friendship with my wild friends.
Although this community is socially unprivileged, I’ve come to know
people full of generosity.
