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Friche La Belle de Mai

Salle Seita📍

2:00_^pm Like the very first time (42’)

“Hides in their dreams.
Masks themself with all their courage.
Unceasingly continues the fight.
Like the very first time.” (J.M.)

*content warning: some works contain bloody images / pornographic references 

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3:15_^pm Come back into my thoughts, I got lost (36’)

“Little nothing, little piece
Of nothing at all
Come back into my thoughts, I got lost
Afterwards, I can’t remember!” (M.F)

Salle Seita📍

4:30_^pm Our Video Poetic Friendships: Limited Access Festival (44’) Kariz: Dark, Wet, and Moving 

Parking Video Library in Collaboration with Limited Access Festival – (Tehran, Iran)
Curated by Amirali Ghasemi & Bahar Ahmadifard

“The program carefully puts side-by-side dark humor, visual and textual poetry, and water as metaphors. To start a journey to Marseille in the proximity of the Mediterranean, words sometimes become heavy when soaked in water, sinking in the deep sea. Some would float like bubbles, lightheadedly making us think and smile, others just moving moments before our eyes. At the same time, we witness how the environment changes so rapidly, and our world rolls into an irreversible state of catastrophe. 
In the Persian language, there are many proverbs, sayings, and stories dealing with water as it was rare and sacred; in geography, once it was expanded and spoken, there were natural springs and underground water reservoirs fed by the melting snow on top of the mountains. There were seas, lakes, and oceans. One can imagine the works in the program are connected to how a Kariz (Qanat) system for transporting underground water worked in ancient and modern Iran before the current water crisis. These different-looking visual journeys, real and Abatract, are somehow connected underneath, we may not see it with a normal eye, but from a bird’s eye view, we may discover a familiar pattern.”

*content warning: a works contains nudity 

Salle Seita📍

5:45_^pm See the light ram through the gaps in the land (41’)

“See the light ram through the gaps in the land
You find them in the road
See the light bounce off the rocks to the sand
In the road” (K.B.)

*content warning: a work contains mention of miscarriage

Salle Seita📍

8:30_^pm Like the night waiting for the day (46’)

“Seen him hanging ’round my door
Like a hawk stealing for the prey
Like the night waiting for the day” (G.J.)

*content warning: some works contain mentions of paedocriminality / rape

Salle Seita📍

9:45_^pm Performance by Katia Vonna : Life is a Lab Live Cinema – Theatre of objects Performance(40′)

In this performance, a hybrid of low-tech and digital, Katia Vonna Beltran talks about modern nomadism, new technologies and reuse, and questions our way of experiencing otherness in a plural world. Using a form of contemporary fairground theatre, a live cinema process, she creates intimate stage spaces where she plays with everyday objects full of stories. She tells them to the audience in an abstract, poetic, political and ‘artivist’ narrative, creating a space for imagination and emotion to unfold. Like an invitation to slow down and invent other possible worlds.

Katia Vonna is a singular, wandering artist whose work is a hybrid of low-tech, ethnographic tools and digital technology. She takes audiences on a sensitive journey through an original, performative Live Cinema device that oscillates between frailty and resistance. In a form of contemporary, immersive and poetic fairground theatre, she creates a playful space where analogue photographs, collages of images, experiences, social resistance and ordinary objects come together.
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https://vimeo.com/laboitecinema
https://www.facebook.com/katiavonna.beltran