From December 14 to 16, 2011, at Villa Arson – Nice
L’ECLAT proposes a debate on the current climate of economic instability, political turbulence, and how this is reflected in contemporary documentary creation.
Indeed, while cinema has long defended itself from conveying any ideology, it is now taking a more direct approach to impact the political situations we are experiencing.
This program will showcase a cinema of the here and now that strengthens its political stance without neglecting aesthetics.
PROGRAM:
– Wednesday, December 14: Politics, aesthetics, same struggle?
6:00 PM >> Lecture by Eugenio Renzi: “The Documentary: Center, Right, Left”
8:00 PM >> Screening followed by a meeting with filmmaker Sylvain George, moderated by Eugenio Renzi
Les Eclats by Sylvain George (France, 2011, 1h25) – exclusive
Mapping the violence inflicted on migrants.
– Thursday, December 15: In the gears, the people
6:00 PM >> Screening presented by Eugenio Renzi
Material by Thomas Heise (Germany, 2009, 2h44, original version with French subtitles)
Compilation of rushes and unreleased scenes from a filmmaker of the former GDR, recounting 20 years of Germany after the fall of the wall.
Grand Prize at the International Competition at FID Marseille 2009.
9:00 PM >> Screening presented by Eugenio Renzi followed by a debate
Entrée du personnel by Manuela Frésil (France, 2011, 59 min) – exclusive
Life stories of workers in large industrial slaughterhouses: “at first, you think you’re not going to stay…”
Grand Prize at the French Competition at FID Marseille 2011.
– Friday, December 16: Indignados of all countries… In partnership with Les Amis du Monde Diplomatique
6:30 PM >> Screening followed by an intervention by Christophe Ventura: “The fall of Berlusconi, good news?”
Qui finisce l’Italia by Gilles Coton (Belgium, 2010, 1h20, original version with French subtitles)
Road movie tracing Pier Paolo Pasolini, exploring the full complexity of contemporary Italy.
8:30 PM >> Screening followed by an intervention by Christophe Ventura: “The time of ideas in action”
Squat, la ville est à nous! by Christophe Coello (France, 2011, 1h34) – exclusive
From Barcelona squats to the Indignados movement, a journey of a struggle for democracy… with excerpts from Marinaleda, a village in utopia by Sophie Bolze (France, 2009, 1h22)
The village has developed innovative forms of direct democracy, and the film retraces this collective experience.
– Guests:
Sylvain George, French filmmaker and political activist. His work, marked by awakening and emancipation, combines formal research with militant commitment. He creates both radical cine-tracts in service of collectives or undocumented migrants, and more personal films engaged against the iniquitous policies that run through and shape our society. His films are screened in activist networks as well as in national and international festivals.
Eugenio Renzi was born in Rieti (Italy) in 1980. After studying philosophy, he worked as an editor at Cahiers du cinéma while collaborating with the journals Vertigo, Les Lettres Françaises, and Ciak. He is the artistic director of the Printemps du cinéma français in Rome. Co-founder with Antoine Thirion of the online magazine www.independencia.fr, he brings together a team sharing the same desire to reconsider the critical profession.
Christophe Ventura is a member of the association Mémoire des luttes (www.medelu.org). He has been involved since the early 2000s in the conception and construction of the World and European Social Forums. Contributor to Le Monde diplomatique and several journals (Latin America, Italy, social movements). He also lectures at the Institute of European Studies at the University of Paris VIII.
