Lucid Intervals: Screenings and discussions
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The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock
Bird Island by Maya Kosa and Sergio da Costa
Language of Birds by Érik Bullot
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LUMA Arles organizes a series of screenings at the Parc des Ateliers.
These films will explore the relationships between humans and non-humans, interspecies relations, mythologies, and the natural world. These sessions are part of a proposal that also includes exchanges with speakers, researchers, filmmakers, and the audience, on how these films contribute to changing our perceptions.
November
November 25, at 6:30 p.m.
The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 1963, 2h00
San Francisco, 1962. A young woman and a lawyer begin a game of seduction at a birdman's house. In order to see him again, she uses a stratagem and decides to deliver to him a couple of birds, "the inseparables". On the road, she is attacked by a seagull. Soon, strange phenomena linked to the birds' behavior announce an imminent drama...
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November 26
At 5:00 p.m.
Bird Island by Maya Kosa and Sergio da Costa, Switzerland, 2019, 1h00
After a long period of isolation, Antonin rediscovers the world in a bird shelter where, rocked by the noise of planes, troubled souls are saved just as much as the birds.
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At 6:00 p.m.
Language of Birds by Érik Bullot, France, 2022, 1h00
Composed of serious and funny musical scenes, an exploration of the virtues of translation and desire for communication between humans and birds. Told by a narrator from the future, after the sixth mass extinction, an observation of the attempts made to establish a possible exchange.
The screening of these films will be accompanied by a discussion at 7:00 p.m. It will be animated by Vanessa Manceron (Anthropologist and researcher at the CNRS), Frédéric Lamouroux (in charge of the pedagogy of the ornithological park of Pont de Gau) and moderated by Martin Guinard (Curator at LUMA Arles).
The conversation will be held in French.
Book your tickets for the November 26 screenings and the discussion
The series of screenings has been curated by Rasha Salti, Independent Curator, Jean-Michel Frodon, Film Critic with Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Director of Exhibitions and Programs, LUMA Arles and Martin Guinard, Curator, LUMA Arles.
Biographies:
Rasha Salti is a researcher, writer and curator of art and film based in Beirut and Berlin. At present, she is the commissioning editor for the experimental documentary program “La Lucarne” for Arte France.
Jean-Michel Frodon is a film critic, journalist and teacher at Sciences Po. He is the author of thirty books on cinema, and was notably head of the Cinema section at Le Monde and director of Cahiers du Cinéma.
Vanessa Manceron is an anthropologist and researcher at the CNRS. Her research focuses on the relationship with nature in France, England and currently in Italy. Her main areas of work concern environmental threats, the animal cause and the protection of life. His latest book, Les Veilleurs du vivant (La Découverte, 2022) deals with the involvement of English amateur naturalists in the knowledge of living things.
Frédéric Lamouroux is in charge of the education of the ornithological park of Pont de Gau in Camargue since 2000. Previously, he trained in ornithology with various teams at the biological station of the Tour du Valat, in the Camargue, and in Quebec, in the Cap Tourmente National Wildlife Area, on the protection of snow geese.