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Scratch Projection / December 9, 2025

HOW TO SAY? RECENT FILMS FROM ATELIER 105

Screening followed by a discussion with the filmmakers in attendance

What Nabokov so aptly called "verbal transmigration" – the translation from one language to another, and thus from one perception or experience of the world to another – often proves to be woefully incomplete. The proliferation of translation tools, which prioritize efficiency, only exacerbates the problem: believing to understand each other better, we risk leaving by the wayside intrinsic particularities of others' perspectives on existence. However, when words fail, nonverbal expression, using images, sounds and bodily movements, helps to create other forms of understanding.

By placing in dialogue five films that were supported by Light Cone between 2020 and 2025 as part of the Atelier 105 residency, this program explores how notions of the untranslatable, the idiomatic and the vernacular can be articulated through experimental cinematographic practices. A voyage prompted by wanderlust; an exile in the context of war; or imaginary travels undertaken in the interstices of outsourced work: in each case, a gaze onto the other meets the one cast in return, in an attempt at a two-way conversation. Elsewhere, a sensory experience of an ancestral practice problematizes and undoes the colonial gaze that haunts a place of memory, and oral communication within a group gives way to a collective body language.

The Atelier 105 residency is a project financed by the Region of Île-de-France.

HOW TO SAY? RECENT FILMS FROM ATELIER 105

Tuesday December 09, 2025, 20:30



NAYAN
by Carla ANDRADE
2025 / DCP / color / sound / 22' 44
IMAGES DE TUNISIE
صور من تونس
by Younès BEN SLIMANE
2025 / DCP / color-b&w / sound / 15' 00
THEIR EYES
by Nicolas GOURAULT
2025 / DCP / color / sound / 22' 36
SPACE_INVADERS.EXE
by Malaz USTA
2024 / DCP / color-b&w / sound / 11' 00
REHEARSAL AND REPETITION
by Igor DIMITRI
2020-2022 / DCP / color / sound / 10' 00

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