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