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Projection / October 14, 2024

LIGHT CONE IN JAPAN

Emmanuel Lefrant is invited in Japan by multiple institutions in order to promote his work as a filmmaker as well as Light Cone and the Atelier 105 residency's work. He will present, at this occasion, 4 program in 3 different cities.

THE ATELIER 105 : A FACTORY OF NEW DOCUMENTARY FORMS — A CARTE BLANCHE TO LIGHT CONE

Monday October 14, 2024, 15:30


TOKYO Theatre Image Forum:10/14 3:30pm
NAGOYA Aichi Arts Center:11/3 3:45pm

A collection of experimental films from the Atelier 105 residency program, which fuses visual experimentation and documentaries into edgy works and garners attention around the world.
The five films of this program were all made in the past three years during the Atelier 105 residency program, created in 2014 by Light Cone, a Paris-based experimental cinema distributor.
The boundaries between genres have tended to blur over the past decade or two, and the films produced by Atelier 105 are no exception to this trend. The program features both films with strong formal components and works on the edge of documentary. The latter, by filmmakers whose filmography generally falls under the rubric of experimental cinema, take a bold approach to the question of reality, breaking with the codes of the genre and proposing a singular vision of the world: that of being both a witness to their times and transcending reality through visual artifacts, which distances them from the more traditional forms of documentary, such as observational film or “direct cinema.”


CÉNOTAPHE
by Charles CADIC
2022-2023 / 2K / color / sound / 7' 52
CORPS SAMPLES
by Astrid DE LA CHAPELLE
2021 / 2K / color-b&w / sound / 14' 00
INTERMÈDE
by Maria KOURKOUTA
2022 / 2K / b&w / sound / 24' 00
THE OASIS I DESERVE
by Inès SIEULLE
2022-2024 / 2K / color / sound / 22' 28
RUPTURES IN THE REEL
by Peter MILLER
2022 / 35mm / color / sound / 12' 45

THE LIVING MATERIA OF FILM

Monday October 14, 2024, 21:00


TOKYO Theatre Image Forum:10/14 - 9:00pm
KYOTO Ritsumeikan University : 10/16 - 5:00pm

This program consists of my last four films, around other films that are essential to me, as a filmmaker but also as a viewer. As I have been trying to do for more than 20 years, the filmmakers who are accompanying me here continue tirelessly to investigate the medium, in search of its most fundamental characteristics. All completed within the last 15 years, those films – all projected in their original formats – are proof of the medium’s vitality and of its enduring vibrancy and magic. – Emmanuel Lefrant


SHEDDING
by Vicky SMITH
2024 / 16mm / b&w / mute / 4' 00
HOLOGRAPHIC WILL
by Mike STOLTZ
2023 / 16mm / color / sound / 5' 30
NYC RGB
by Viktoria SCHMID
2023 / 16mm / color / sound / 7' 11
PARTIES VISIBLE ET INVISIBLE D'UN ENSEMBLE SOUS TENSION
by Emmanuel LEFRANT
2009 / 35mm / color / sound / 7' 00
BROUILLARD
PASSAGE #14
by Alexandre LAROSE
2013 / 35mm / color / silent / 10' 00
LE PAYS DÉVASTÉ
by Emmanuel LEFRANT
2015 / 35mm / color / sound / 11' 30
I DON'T THINK I CAN SEE AN ISLAND
by Christopher BECKS & Emmanuel LEFRANT
2016 / 35mm / color / sound / 4' 10
SET
by Peter MILLER
2016 / 35mm / color / silent / 9' 32
PER UNA SELVA OSCURA
by Emmanuel LEFRANT
2022 / 35mm / color / sound / 8' 25

ALEXANDRE LAROSE & EMMANUEL LEFRANT

Friday October 18, 2024, 19:00


TOCHIGI Kanuma Center : 10/18 - 7:00pm

In an age where digital images are the standard, two artists who insist on experimental expression on film are coming to Kanuma. Alexandre Larose, one of Canada’s most active moving-image artist working on film, presents layers of images and time in multiple exposures. Emmanuel Lefrant, director of the Paris-based distribution organisation Light Cone, which is behind genre-busting films, explores the materiality of film and the world of abstraction.


LA GRANDE DAME
by Alexandre LAROSE
2011 / Super 8mm / color / silent / 3' 30
ARTIFICES #1
by Alexandre LAROSE
2007 / Super 8mm / color / sound / 3' 05
ALL OVER
by Emmanuel LEFRANT
2001 / 16mm / color / sound / 7' 00
BLITZ
by Emmanuel LEFRANT
2006 / 16mm / color / sound / 6' 00
OVERALL
by Emmanuel LEFRANT
2006 / 16mm / color / sound / 5' 00
PARTIES VISIBLE ET INVISIBLE D'UN ENSEMBLE SOUS TENSION
by Emmanuel LEFRANT
2009 / 16mm / color / sound / 7' 00
STILL FRAMES
by Emmanuel LEFRANT
2002 / 16mm / color / silent / 3' 00