ORGUEIL & PRÉJUGÉS
ORGUEIL & PRÉJUGÉS
SHORT FILM PROGRAM
Monday November 25, 2024
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
The Club Cinema
■ Discussion with Léonore Mercier & Samuel Desvignes, directors
Léonore Mercier
Director, composer, visual artist
After a DNSEP at the Beaux arts de Bourges, she obtained a degree in cinema at the Sorbonne.
Her dreamlike scenarios blur the boundaries between real and fictional worlds; her fables, somewhere between dystopia and utopia, evoke the dream within the dream through 'mise en abyme', until we no longer know where the fiction begins and ends.
En 2022, ses deux dernières réalisations Sauvage et Baptême s’inscrivent dans la continuité d’une recherche sur le vivant, sur la frontière poreuse qui sépare l’humanité de son versant animal. Elle y observe la tension entre le monde naturel et artificiel, humain/non humain, et cherche à rendre visible et audible les transformations qui affectent les écosystèmes.
Samuel Desvignes
Director and cinematographer of wildlife films
Following a degree in ecology and ethology, Samuel Desvignes completed his studies with training in the production of environmental and wildlife documentaries.
Here he acquired a wide range of skills, including script-writing, filming, sound recording, video and sound editing and sound mixing.
He made 'Le discours du Choucas', selected in competition at the Festival de l'Oiseaux et de la Nature 2023, and 'Contre-Nature'.
BEEN THERE
Corina Schwingruber Ilić
Documentary l Switzerland l 2023 I 10’
Weekends away, city breaks, a diversion into nature or a trip around the world. Barely a few days off and you're already away.
Never has the desire to travel been so widespread and the places visited so numerous.
What do we get out of it, if not proof through images that we've been there?
CONTRE-NATURE
[UNNATURAL]
Samuel Desvignes
Documentary l France l 2023 I 28'
Unnatural: contrary to the state of nature.
Demonstrations, social networks, TV shows... It's still quite common to hear that homosexuality is unnatural.
But what does this really mean? That homosexuality is not widespread in the animal world?
In this debate, we hear very little from specialists in animals and their behaviour. So perhaps it's time to give them their say.
As we set out to meet them, our vision of sexuality is gradually called into question.
HUBRIS
Jules de Niverville
Experimental / Canada / 2023 / 29’
Hubris: name used to describe a personality trait of extreme or foolish pride, someone who overestimates their abilities to such an extent that they lose touch with reality.
Set in a realm of utopian coexistence between man and technology, this short film follows the journeys of three individuals as their environment is dismantled.
Performed by dance and circus artists, the film explores a powerful story about climate change.
LUNATIC
Robin Noorda
Animation l The Netherlands l 2023 I 16’
Human waste, even in space, determines our destiny.
Antonio, abandoned on the moon after his coming-out party, becomes a witness to the space climate crisis. Collisions between debris and satellites are destroying all communications.
It's what's known as Kessler syndrome.
SAUVAGE
[WILD]
Léonore Mercier
Documentary l France l 2022 I 21’
Immerse yourself in the free roaming of Galicia's wild horses. Immersed in their psychological and acoustic environment, we breathe in harmony with them.
The horse, an animal of prey, has retained its survival instinct, with fear as its innate mechanism.
This instinct is put to the test: captured, they are forced to take part in a local tradition: ‘shaving the beasts'.
HIS MAJESTY
THE FOAM
Jean-Philippe Teyssier & Bruno Victor-Pujebet
Documentary l France l 52'
They have survived climatic tragedies and nuclear contamination thanks to their extraordinary biological characteristics: mosses, or bryophytes, have been striving to conquer the planet for millennia. Recent discoveries are shaking the scientific community: His Majesty the Mosses invites us to discover them through the history of this extraordinary organism, on a journey from the infinitely small to the infinitely large.