This screening is organized at the event of the 42nd issue of the art magazine l'art même, which new edition is dedicated to experimental cinema.
Christian Lebrat is film director, video artist and photographer. He directs the editions Paris Expérimental which just released his collection of texts on cinema: Radical cinema (2008).
There is a cinema which grows out of the beaten paths and invents its own rules. There is a cinema which is independent from the movie business, the art world and the fashion industry. There is a cinema in which each film rephrases the definition of cinema. There is a cinema which constantly renews forms, like its own existing modes. There is a cinema which constitutes an hard core, impossible to circumvent. It is this radical cinema which is presented here through a selection of examples:
NOTES ON THE CIRCUS by Jonas MEKAS
1966 / 16 mm / col / sound / 12 min
MOTHLIGHT by Stan BRAKHAGE
1963 / 16 mm / col / mute / 4 min
EPHEMERAL SOLIDITY by Stan BRAKHAGE
1993 / 16 mm / col / mute / 5 min
ARNULF RAINER by Peter KUBELKA
1958-60 / 16 mm / b&w / sound / 6 min 30
BANG by Robert BREER
1986 / 16 mm / col / sound / 8 min
CHANTAL D., STAR by Maurice LEMAITRE
1968 / 16 mm / sound / 26 min
THE LIVING ROOM by Michael SNOW
2001 / 16 mm / col / sound / 20 min
HOLON de Christian LEBRAT
1982 / 16 mm / col / mute / 15 min
(total length : 96 minutes)