May 30 2008
Marrakesh craftsman by Arnaud Contreras
Archive for the 'documentary' Category
Jan 24 2008
In deep Amazonia
A moment closed to the river in deep Amazonia, from the “Shiwiars Project”, by Valery Grancher.
“(…)I work mostly with media of all kinds, from video, photography, paintings, sometimes advertisement, marketing via Internet and this rebounding relationship with a reality of mediation perceived at the individual level triggers my interest, more than the one understood subjectively or in a phenomenological way, that is concomitant realities, whether collective or societal which intersect, their interactions with identity, memory, temporality, a given space. The Internet is a rather specific media because it allows strange situations as I said earlier which correspond to moments of 24hours, localized or global spaces confronted to a location and one individual experience. I certainly consider the Internet at a more symbolic level in relationship to our daily reality - I do not belong to a technological system which consists of generating new technologies to be grafted upon the Internet and thus supports the modern, progressive or positivist orders- I am only interested in the human experience brought up by this particular media. (…)
Jan 21 2008
The ghettos of Kinshasa
Jupiter’s Dance, the acclaimed documentary by Renaud Barret & Florent de la Tullaye is now released on DVD.
Synopsis:
The ghettos of Kinshasa - the devastated capital of Democratic Republic of the Congo a country politically and economically adrift - are filled with many gifted, yet impoverished musicians. Their outstanding talent, humour and vital energy are their on means of survival. Amongst them, Jupiter Bokondji, the charismatic leader of the band “Okwess International”, acts as our narrator and guide. This local Don Quixote introduces us to the Kinshasa music scene - teenage rappers, handicapped bluesmen, street children, griots ans guitar craftsmen - and describe his 20-year struggle to bring his music out of the ghetto.
Jan 19 2008
Marrakesh, marking time in the medina
I’ve been filming, working, shooting Marrakesh, Morocco, since 1994, but I think that’s my best sequence in the souks.
People were used to see me walking slowly, taking time, and they knew I would buy nothing. So they now let me film whatever I want.
This video has been presented in various art fair.
Dec 31 2007
Eastern Roads
Soviet Union officially collapses on December 25th, 1991. Fifteen years later, the 15 ex-republics of the Soviet Union are waking up and growing up between democracy and dictatorship, liberalism and neo-communism, between European Union and Vladimir Putin’s Russia, between laicization and religion, between inequality and unity.
Formerly regrouped together in only one block, 15 ex-republics of the Soviet Union are actually countries very different. And it is interesting to notice that when some young people are dreaming of Russia or United States, their parents or grandparents are missing the great Moscow’s Mother.
The goal of Evangeline Masson et Patricio Diez’s project is to meet the young people from 20 to 35 years old, to know them and to understand their desires and projects.
© www.15ans15pays.com
Dec 30 2007
The edges of Europe
Fifteen years have past between the fall of Berlin’s wall until european Union’s enlargement to the East.
On May 1st, 2004, three Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), five Central Europe countries (Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia) and two Mediterranean (Cyprus and Malta) have joined the Union. Bulgaria and Romania will follow in 2007.
European Union has now a new Eastern border. Turkey, Moldavia, Ukraine, Byelorussia and Russia are its new neighbours. Border ? Gap ? However, a new line divides again the continent.
Work done between June 2000 and August 2003.
Guy Pierre Chomette and Frederic Sautereau.
© Frédéric Sautereau / Oeil Public
Dec 29 2007
