Our stops in 2024

August, 1 to 3

LTK4, Koln, Germany 

Presentation of 4 works at the Centre Court Festival, created in response to a call for proposals launched in cooperation with LTK4 (Cologne) Vidéohearings, Sound to video

• Ohne Titel (04’56- 2024) / Jochen Schemm (Germany)
• Flux experiment (05’ 02 – 2024) / Saman Haghighivand (Iran)
• The void (02’11 – 2024) / Mourad Hamla (Algeria) 
• User experience optimization (01’05 – 2024) / Julie Halazy (France)

Thursday, August 1st | 8 pm

LTK4, Koln, Germany 

With the participation of 3 programm’actors and 2 members of les IV, thanks to the support of Fonds citoyen franco-allemand.

A programme of films from Les Instants Vidéo festival archives, chosen by inhabitants of Marseille who want to take part in the cultural life of their city. The ten works selected echo the words of the poet Kiyémis.

*content warning: a work contains references to rape

WEDNESDAY JUNE, 5 | 3.30pm 

Petit Théâtre, Friche la belle de mai / Free entrance 

IVs have been keen to contribute to World Refugee Day (WRD) since 2017. We invite you to discover 7 video artworks brought together under the title :

A Room of One’s Own (30’)
In the midst of the storms of life, find a spot of light in the darkness, a refuge where you can rest, in your own caring room. 

• Jardin Paradise (5’24 – 2022) / Yza Nouiga (Canada)
• Borers (4’28 – 2022) / Shiyu Tang (China)
• Music for waxing (2’14 – 2021) / Giulia Giannola (Italy)
• L’Estiu Robat (3’10 – 2020) / Isabel Val Sánchez (Spain)
• Pourquoi meurt-il l’homme dont la sauge pousse dans le jardin ? (5’ – 2020) / Mathilde Leroy (France)
• Inexpressible (7’23 – 2022) / Úrsula San Cristóbal (Spain)
• Habitat spontané 2 (1’55 – 2017) / Guillaume Martial (France)

WEDNESDAY JUNE 5  | 6PM

Cinema le Gyptis, Marseille

Join us to discover the selection of works chosen by the programm’actors. Inspired by the sentence that became the title of the program : You do not just wake up and become a butterfly (Rupi Kaur), they will be on hand to welcome you and discuss their choices.

A big thanks to the artists for your trust, be sure your works were pampered.

This project is the result of a close partnership with GEM-Club Parenthèse Espoir Provence, ARI, SARA Logisol, ANEF Provence, ADPEI and the Gyptis

Avec les oeuvres  : 

• Unseasonal Migration. Travelling Plastic Bags / Claudi Borgna (Italy/Germany)
• Circle and Hollow / Yacob Bizuneh (Ethiopia)
• NO / Oscar Salamanca (Colombia) 
• Sea Level / Khaled Jarrar (Palestine)
• Emigration / Reyhaneh Taherverdi (Iran)
• Éphémère /Monica Carolina Chen (Argentina/Quebec) 
• Brief Encounters on the Milky Way / Xiaowen Zhu (China/Germany)
• Humans / Boaz Aharonovitch (Israël) 
• Sanctuary / Marcantonio Lunardi (Italy) 
• Habitat spontané 2 / Guillaume Martial (France)

FROM MAY 17 TO 19 | Night format 

Friche la Belle de Mai – Festival Le Bon Air

Lulled by the electrifying sounds of your evening, and during your journey on the dance halls of the Festival Le Bon Air, you’ll be able to discover a work by Fabien Zocco, screened on a wall of la Friche .It’s called Je suis tu es (I am you are), and in each shot we can read statements that raise questions. 

Some words, taken at random from the exhaustive list of all the adjectives in the French language, automatically complete the sentence in an alternating manner, following a regular mechanical rhythm.  The process unfolds a sequence of assertions ranging from the tragic to the grotesque, reducing any definition of identity to a finite set of pre-determined qualities.

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Saturday, May 4 | 2pm -7pm

Théâtre Toursky, Marseille

A collective of local associations invites you for a cultural afternoon in support to the people of Palestine. All donations will go to the CETC-Atfaluna and Ibn Sina associations in Gaza (care centres for traumatised children and people).
We present two video works entrusted to us by two solidarity artists:

• Sea Level (4’15 – 2011) / Khaled Jarrar (Palestine)
• Damage (2’ – 2009) / Rania Stephan (Lebanon)

In April

Festival Printemps du Film Engagé (PFE) – Building a world in a broken world

Because we believe in a human community based on solidarity, we will open 4 PFE programmes with six video works by Palestinian artists.

• Saturday, April 13 | 7.30pm – Le Gyptis cinema 

Promise (1’20 – 2021) / Lilly Ann Benson 
Chic Point (Fashion for Israeli Checkpoint) (7′ – 2003) / Sharif Waked 
followed by the film The first 54 years (1h49 – 2021) / Avi Mogravi
In the presence of Elias Sanbar, Palestinian historian, poet and essayist, ambassador of the 8th PFE. 

• Wednesday, April 17 | 06 pm – L’Alcazar Library

Memory of the land (12’50 – 2017) / Samira Badran
followed by Le Château en santé (52’ – 2021) / Olivier Bertrand 

• Thursday, April 18 | 08 pm – Les Variétés cinema

We teach life, Sir (4’39 – 2011) / Rafeef Ziadah
followed by Anxious in Beirut (1h33 – 2023) / Zakaria Jaber 

• Friday, April 19 | 08.30 pm – La Baleine cinema

I, The News (0’43 – 2022) / Nizar Marzouqa
The Right To See (6’14 – 2021) / Mahmoud Al-Haj
followed by État Limite (1h42 – 2023) / Nicolas Peduzzi

Between March and June

The project Programm’acteur.rice.s

Between March and June, 5 groups of inhabitants from Marseille will visit the Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques office in search of works they would like to share with the public (their friends, neighbours, strangers on the street, etc.). They will build an international video art screening programme to be presented at Cinéma le Gyptis in June and at the opening of the 37th Les Instants Vidéo Festival in October 2024, under the title Waking up is not enough to become a butterfly (Rupi Kaur).
We are very much attached to this atypical and collective project. It’s makes us constantly reflect on our own practice as image-sharers.

A close partnership with ADPEI, Sara Logisol, ARI, ANEF Provence, Espoir Provence, GEM Club parenthèses

March, 29  |  

Zone Franche for Palestine: a forgotten people, culture and artists?

Zone Franche World Music Network has invited IVs to moderate a roundtable discussion on the role that civil society, including cultural workers, can play in taking action. Are our voices strong enough?
4 personalities have been invited to share their experiences and engaged in a joint reflexion to stimulate action by the entire music sector and its partners. 

• Ramzi Aburedwan, musician, composer and conductor, president and founder of Al Kamandjâti association
• Rima Hassan, president and founder of the Refugee Camp Observatory 
• François Tiger, Director of the French Institute in Gaza  
• Christine Zayed, musician, singer, composer.

Friday, March 15 | 7pm

Ciné-Solidaires 29 bd Longchamp 1er

A screening program (32’16) : Poetry, a weapon of mass resistance
“What binds us is an asymmetrical reciprocity. I cannot put myself in the place of the other and vice versa. But on the other hand, I can take the stories of others in hand to try to understand” (Soumaya Mestiri, Tunisia)

Saturday, March 1 | 5 to 7pm

Les Amarres – 24 Quai D’Austerlitz – Paris 13

On the occasion of the launch of the AFUS association, La Fabrique d’Afus, and in partnership with Réseau Euromed France, IV, together with iReMMO and Roberto Cimetta Fund, will take part in a conference debate (recorded as a podcast) on “Art, culture and artistic mobility in the Mediterranean”.

We’ll talk about the Les Instants Vidéo festival (Marseille) and the /si:n/ biennial in Palestine, about cooperation and resistance. 
And we will present REF’s Cahier n°9 on “Palestinian Resistance”, in which we wrote an article.

Janvier 2023

Lauch of the great Cahier du REF no. 9 “Stories of Palestinian Resistance”, which, far from what propaganda on all sides would have us believe, helps us understand who the Palestinians are in all their humanity and power of life.
Just over a year ago, Les Instants Vidéo was in Gaza, the West Bank and Palestine 48 for the 7th edition of the video and performance art biennial /si:n/, which you can also read about.

You can download it here : 21 articles in 3 languages (Arabic, French, English)

Ongoing

Project Tae’thir (‘influence’ in Arabic)

The Tae’thir project was born out of a shared desire to explore alliances between the artistic and digital worlds and human rights (HR) with young people in the Euro-Mediterranean region. Launched in September 2023 in Marseille for a period of 3 years, it is aimed at young people aged between 21 and 35 from 17 countries (Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Spain, France, Greece, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Palestine, Portugal, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey).

The project consists of 5 interconnected working sessions:
– online training on human rights 
– a one-week internship in Marseille
– individual support (mentoring)
– financial support for 22 artistic or digital content projects
– action-research on alliances between art & content creation / human rights / politics

A cooperation between Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques, Réseau Euromed France (REF), Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and Ligue de l’Enseignement des Bouches du Rhône, in partnership with the Ligue des droits de l’Homme.