4 video programs, performance, discussions

Salle Seita📍

2:00pm Its future into the space (45′)

“I see my life projecting
Its future into the space
And silence answers me,
In secret.” (J.C.)

Metropolyrhythm

3’37 | 2022 | Autriche
  • Mathias Simon Obrzut

Ingresso Animali Vivi

14’33 | 2023 | Croatie
  • Igor Grubic

Kiesler’s Body

3’ | 2023 | Autriche
  • Ganaël Dumreicher

Circvs Maximvs

2’43 | 2022 | US
  • Maxime Chudeau

Heat Waves

21' | 2022 | Pays-Bas
  • Kent Chan

Salle Seita📍

3:15pm I’m writing this during the night for a better morning (38’)

« I’m writing this during the night for a better morning
Yeah, I’m writing in order to believe, destiny is uncertain » (S, O.E.B.)

Etica Peletica

1’33 | 2021 | Italie
  • Fabio Leone, Antonella Barbera

The Great Kind Mystery

16’10 | 2023 | Canada
  • Ella Morton

Poupées gigognes d’argiles

1’ | 2023 | Canada
  • Hélène Matte

Her Subjects

3’16 | 2022 | Finlande
  • Johanna Lecklin

Sigmund’s Joy of avoiding the void

1’ | 2023 | Allemagne
  • Kuesti Fraun

Suspended

10’22 | 2022 | Allemagne
  • Gretel Ribka

Future Phone

3’44 | 2022 | US
  • David Allen

Salle Seita📍

4:30pm Our Video Poetic Friendships: Festival Vidéoformes (54’)

“Every year VIDEOFORMES, the International Festival of Hybrid and Digital Arts in Clermont-Ferrand, presents a state-of-the-art instant survey of artistic creation, particularly video. The selection is designed to be as demanding in terms of form as it is in terms of content. As a natural result, essays on sensuality, questions about the medium, urbanism, the human condition and poetry are presented side by side in a very informal way.As a showcase The videos presented at Instants Vidéos, another video art event, offer a representative sample of the works that caught our attention and that of our juries.”

*Content warning: a work contains a sexual act

Un souvenir à demi-rêvé

6’26 | 2021 | Espagne
  • Úrsula San Cristóbal

Vade Ultra

10′ | 2022 | Brésil
  • Carlosmagno Rodrigues

La limite est une façade

7'12 | 2022 | France
  • Dorian Rigal

Homesick

14′ | 2022 | Allemagne
  • Bjørn Melhus

Untitled#2

7'30 | 2022 | Espagne-Belgique
  • Rafael

Nous buvons de l’eau de la même rivière

9’06 | 2021 | Azerbaïdjan-Russia
  • Sofia Melikova

Salle Seita📍

5:45pm Diverting rivers, carrying weights (45′)

“To divert rivers, to carry weights
to cross seas, that I can do
To defy machines, to flout laws
I’m not afraid of divine wrath.” (C.D.)

*Content warning: a work contains an explicitly sexual text

Avant les vagues

3’06 | 2022 | France
  • Evantias Chaudat

Unnamed Road

7’59 | 2022 | Chine
  • Songkai Zhou

Entre Ciel et Terre

6’50 | 2022 | France
  • Claude Ciccolella

Marginal Understandings

22’ | 2023 | US
  • David Finkelstein

The Space In-Between

5’ | 2022 | Australie
  • Jodhi Ramsden-Mavric, Felix Siro, Rory Clark

Salle Seita📍

7:00pm Performance Drôles de Drames : Videosong (60′)

Electroacoustic covers of the songs that gave the screening programs their titles.
17 songs in total, some sung as medleys, others in their entirety.
Jako & Jo as a duo