VIDEO SCREENING
— 9 — 10 NOV
AV programme Transcultures – Pépinières européennes de Création for Simultan 2019
Transcultures (Centre of digital and sound cultures – BE) and
European Pepinieres of Creation (international network – based in France
– promoting the mobility of contemporary artists) propose for the
festival Simultan 2019, an audio-video selection that emphasizes the
link between the sound and visual dimension put here on an equal
footing, but also the relation to urbanity (or its naturalist opposite)
contemporary and a poetic look for resistance to violence and the
madness of the world.
This programme of AV works by hybrid creators
is curated by Philippe Franck (Director of Transcultures-Belgiim and
European Pepinières of Creation-France).
_ Production : Transcultures-Pépinières européennes de création.
_ Duration of the programme > around 40 minutes.
GAPS, Tamara Lai, BE, 2014, 4’40’’
Third episode of an unlimited series of experimental road movies, GAPS highlights,
but as in passing, offsets, cracks, fractures, emptiness … at work in
our modern lives. Embracing all kinds of places and people. Those
meetings, moments of communion with the world in all its states were
shot in London, Barcelona, La Rochelle, Brussels …The soundtrack is
composed from extracts of live music (beatbox, trip hop, hip hop
battles, bandas,…) mostly by street musicians.
_ Production : Thalamus Prod.
La couverture (mélomane), Christophe Bailleau, BE/FR, 2018, 4’31’’
From a piece –Melomane– evoking, with a Spring accent, the North American minimalism from his new album Firebird released
by Transonic (in connection with the eponymous poetic notebook),
Christophe Bailleau made a video (in the framework of a residency hosted
by the European Pepinieres of Creation in Paris and Transcultures in
Charleroi) that staged, in a colourful and enigmatic way a character
covered with a blanket that evolves in natural or semi-urban landscapes
to finally take us to another dimension.
_ Production : Transcultures / Transonic, European Pepinieres of Creation.
L’échappée belle, Pastoral, BE/FR, 2018, 7’05’’
On
an impressionistic composition of the Belgian-French duet Pastoral
(Christophe Bailleau + Philippe Franck), intertwining guitar arpeggios
and electronic waves, bucolic, poetic or humorous sketches intertwine to
take us on a ballad to the sweet madness, derives from a provincial
surreal daily environment.
_ Production: Transcultures / Transonic
Foundation, Natalia de Mello, PT, 2016, 4’51’’
From
the meeting with the sound artists Isa Belle (Tibetan and crystal
bowls), Paradise Now (voice, guitar, electronics) and the free musician
Maurice Charles JJ (saxophone), the multi-artist Natalia de Mello has
produced a poetic video echoing this meditative audio universe, with
naturalistic shots, organic materials and still portraits of the artists
_ Production: Transcultures / Transonic
Strange meeting in an empty space, Stéphane Kozik, BE, 2013, 8’38’’
To
make this short film, as part of the European project Park in progress,
Stéphane Kozik ventured to an area where the vultures gather in Aragon,
installed sensors and cameras to imagine a performance with Hungarian
dancer Julia Hadi. Specialist of sound creation made from in situ
captures, Stéphane Kozik confronts here the wild and disturbing nature
of this gathering of 500 vultures.
_ Production: Transcultures / Transonic
Trans Travelling Blues (Migrations#7), Paradise Now featuring Jacob Bleu, BE/CI, 2018, 4’27’’
This video was made only from paintings from the Migrations series
by Ivorian visual artist Jacobleu for whom Belgian/French sound
producer Paradise Now was invited to compose a series of organic
soundscapes. This seventh migration is a kind of ethereal post-blues
that slowly stretches out like pictorial works set in slow motion. It
reflects both the dramatic reality of these thousands of nameless
migrants and the imaginary associated with the desperate quest for a
better world, but also the energy of life that drives them.
_ Production: Transcultures / Transonic
The Slyder, Régis Cotentin, FR, 4’32’’, 2019
A
disorder wins the spirit of a survivor. The song of the chimeras of the
past pushes him towards the black of his mental screen, but a surprise
awaits him when he spots the vanishing point of his memory … mirroring
as it mirrors the present … and the journey continues.
_ Production: Transcultures / Transonic