Avignon Festival - Night Route “Fast Movies”

16 July 2011. Published by Benoît Labourdette.
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A course at night to discover movies projected on the walls, doors, floors, bas reliefs, windows... in the streets of Avignon.

The films shot with mobile phone, pocket camera or camera are selected by Benoît Labourdette in line with the city, its atmosphere, places and supports projection engaging a true reflection scenic and reclaiming urban space. This fun course, dotted with ephemeral projections, is the opportunity to experience a rare experience: discover a selection of resonating with the site and film surfaces on which they are projected to live a collective experience of cinema outside, feel the atmosphere of the city and create an atmosphere, create relationships unpublished works-spectators-contexts ...

The collection of pocket films includes works by Delbono, Alain Fleischer, Benoît Labourdette...

Program

  • The world through my toys (current), Alain Fleischer, 2011.
  • The fear (excerpt) Delbono, 2009.
  • This is not a movie, Pascal Delé, 2005.
  • The Pearl (excerpts), Marguerite Lantz, 2006.
  • Passing, Caroline Delieutraz, 2007.
  • What’s up Bastard, Morgan Simon, 2010.
  • Incident, Michael Szpakowski, 2009 (UK).
  • Study for hands 11, Benoît Labourdette, 2010.
  • The champion, Avelans Rui Coelho, 2008 (Portugal).
  • World’s best mum Hédouin Camille and Jerome Genevray, 2010.
  • Brother, Kerim Bersaner, 2007 (Netherlands).

A production of Mons 2015, European Capital of Culture, in partnership with the National Theatre of Brussels and Liège Festival.

Portfolio

Films in a neighborhood... Since 2011, we’ve been offering traveling screenings of short films in a neighborhood or building. These screenings, which require no prior installation, are carried out using a “pico-projector” (a portable video projector that appeared in 2010). This is “mobile projection”, on the walls of a city or neighborhood. Exploiting this still-new technology for moments of encounter between artworks, places and people.

These screenings provide audiences with an exceptional experience, rediscovering the magic of projection and giving everyday places a totally unexpected dimension. These itinerant screenings are very playful propositions, offering spectators beautiful, original and creative cinema experiences.

This proposal can be approached in the form of a workshop: a group of spectators builds the screening and runs it. They prepare a program of films, designed to be screened on the walls of their neighborhood, at night, in public. The choice of films or excerpts, then the choice of locations to show these films, the speeches, the meaning of this meeting, the way the neighborhood was invested, the way the screening was prepared in collaboration with the residents, the rehearsal time, notably technical, reinforce everyone’s involvement.

Travelling screenings took place at: Festival Via Pro Mons, Festival d’Avignon, École Normale Supérieure, Festival des scénaristes, Agglomération d’Évry, Maison des métallos, Festival Travelling Rennes, Passeurs d’images Île-de-France, Musée de l’Homme, ALCA Bordeaux, Festival War on Screen, Les Lilas, Saint-Denis, Fontenay-sous-Bois, Mitry-Mory, Saint-Michel sur Orge, Ivry-sur-Seine...