When the Cinémathèque de Toulouse twists the history of cinema
For its 5th edition, the Histoires de cinéma festival carried by the Cinémathèque de Toulouse explores the themes of “Remix and Diversion”. To discover until November 21.
The little stories that make up the great history of cinema are the subject of careful examination by the part of the speakers invited by the Cinémathèque de Toulouse this week. The art of reusing images (editing, archives, found footage, stock shots, diversions, mashup…) therefore constitutes the guideline of the 5th edition of this important festival which looks at an art witness to its time. “The cinema is both document and material, witness to its time and trompe-l’oeil, the image having become the guarantor of a historical truth, if not of a true history, while being in prey to the illustration of a subject, that is to say an illusion of truth, ”specifies Franck Lubet, responsible for the programming of the venerable institution in the rue du Taur.
The specialists, researchers, directors present this week will thus put into perspective this use, this “Remix and Diversion” of these images of the 7th Art which, according to, sometimes decades later, can be dependent on the gaze of the spectator when he sees them. receives. “It is this story that we will cross here, from the surface of the image, frontal, behind the image, deeper than it lets appear. A cannibalistic story. Because like memory, cinema feeds on itself. “
It is therefore to the art of reusing images that the event proposes to reflect with the help of the Austrian Film Museum through the voice of its director Michael Loebenstein. Director Cécile Fontaine will present her collage-designed film technique, colleagues Emmanuel Lefrant, Boris Lehman, Bill Morrison, and researchers David Walsh (internationally known for his writings and parent talks at the Film Archives, former member of the Imperial War Museum ), Matthias Steinle, the Mashup Film Festival (which puts the art of editing at the heart of the creative process and creates unusual weddings) and Traverse Vidéo which, here, has been carrying the Rencontres internationales Traverse for 25 years, will all bring their experience and look at this use of film productions through time and today.
In the program
Until Sunday, November 21 at the Cinémathèque de Toulouse (69, rue du Taur). Prices: 7.50, 6.50, 4 euros and Festival Pass at 60 euros. Phone. 05 62 30 30 10 (www.lacinemathequedetoulouse.com).
Monday 3 to 7 p.m .: presentation by Simone Dompeyre, artistic director of Rencontres internationales Travers, of the Traverse Program.
Tuesday 16 at 19h: presentation by Boris Lehman of “Ghosts of the past (how history entered into me)”.
Wednesday 17 at 7 p.m .: conference by David Walsh (former head of digital collections at the Imperial War Museum) and Helen Upcraft (curator at the Imperial War Museum). At 9 pm: presentation of the film “For the fallen soldiers” by Peter Jackson.
Thursday 18 at 7 p.m .: presentation (in video) by Michael Loebenstein, director of the Austrian Film Museum, of the Phil Solomon: alchemy and cinema program followed at 9 p.m. by the presentation of the Shred, Scratch, Synch program.