Nicole Brenez
Top Ten Films + A
Highlight + An Emergency.
(No order)
The Three Disasters (Jean-Luc Godard)
France, 2012, 17 min
A critical visual poem in
the core of the digital civilization.
Logical Song (Ange Leccia)
France, 2013, 32 min
An installation at the
Mac/val, thanks to which film becomes a room for deep love.
Get All From That Ant? (Anthony Stern)
UK, 2013, 80 min
Portrait of London
1950-1975, in still pictures, film and video, by a great artist who lived,
looed and worked at the core of the pop culture genesis.
That Guy – Aquele Cara (Dellani Lima)
Brazil, 2013, 19 min
It’s nothing: in direct
cinema, some hours in the life of Jonnata Doll, ragazzo and leader of a band in
Fortaleza, Brazil
It’s everything : the
richness, depth, explosions and funny speeds of a psychic life, the paths of
creation, and how a true poet mutates the industrial products into precious
songs of life.
Federsee (John
Skoog)
Sweden/Germany, 2013, 8
min
“A film that looks at the
traditional folklore surrounding the celebration of Fasnet in the small
Schwabian town of Bad Buchau which is haunted by the violent story of a father
drowning his family in the nearby lake, Federsee. ‘Leave to us Germans the
horrors of delerium, the dreams of feverishness and the kingdom of ghosts.
Germany is a country which suits old witches, dead bears' skins, golems of each
sex...’ Heinrich Heine, Die Romantische Schule II, 1833” (John Skoog).
The Costel Pendulum – Le pendule de Costel (Pilar Arcila)
France, 2013, 68 min
In black and white S8 and
video color, a depiction of and by the Rom themselves of their daily life, this
old nomadic life that Europa never succeeded to fully admit.
The Silent Majority Speaks (Bani Khoshnoudi)
Iran, 2010, 94 min
In the great tradition of
Armand Mattelart’s The Spiral or René Vautier’s Frontline, a deep political
analysis of one century of revolt and repression in Iran, and the various roles
of images in this collective history. Clandestinely made and signed by “The
Silent Collective”, the film was finally publicly released only in 2013.
Thailand, 2012, 176 min
Shakespeare is born again thanks to the translation and
adaptation of Ing K, he suddenly becomes a great weapon in the struggle against
the Thai dictatorship.
By Mati Diop, France,
2013, 45 min
Entire renewal of the form
of a film portrait, as Innisfree by José Luis Guerin was for his time.
Leviathan (Verena
Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
Sea, 2012, 87 min
A turning point in the
history of cinematic depiction, liberated from a human point of view.