Cinema Anèmic #07: Boris Lehman

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  Next Sunday February 7 Xcèntric screens two films by Boris Lehman for the first time in Barcelona. The NOOK-Poble Sec association and the Cinema Anèmic screening series want to take this opportunity to project the next day, on Monday February 8, three more short pieces in 16mm, presented by the director himself.

Programmed by Boris Lehman:

- Muet comme une carpe / Silent as a fish / Belgium-RFA / 1987 / 38’ / 16 mm / colour

From pond to plate, we are shown the journey and destiny of one carp among many. This particular carp will be eaten stuffed during a family meal. Carp stuffed «in the Polish fashion», also called in yiddish «Gefilte Fish» is a traditional dish eaten by Ashkenazi Jews. It is cooked, sweetened and served as a cold dish at the start of the meal. The head is reserved for the head of the family. The film, set in Brussels, on the day of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah), aims to show the culinary preparation together with the accompanying prayers and ritual. It focuses particularly on the sacrifice of the fish and on the issue of mass extermination.

- La dernière (s)cène / The last supper / Belgium / 1995 / 14’ / 16 mm / colour

The dialogue is based on the Gospel according to St John. The apostles are played by friends (the disciples) of Boris Lehman, most of them movie-makers, filmed in front of the last house still standing opposite the new buildings of the European Union. Judas is played by Claudio Pazienza and Christ by Boris Lehman. The film was shot in a matter of hours on a Sunday morning, with an incredible decor in a street that had been razed to the ground by property developers, just before the police arrived.

- Chose qui me rattachent aux Êtres / Things that connect me with Beings / Belgium / 2007-2010 / 15’ / 16 mm / colour

The film appears as an inventory, a list put together by Prévert or Perec. Close in spirit to Dada, Oulipo or Fluxus. Since the famous "This is not a pipe" by René Magritte, we know that appearances are deceiving, that words, like images, can be hijacked from their initial function. With me, it's different: my aim is to create the object by the image and the word, by filming it. An act of creation, just as God did. I show the camera a few objects of my daily life having belonged to others, whom I have loved or frequented and I say: "I am the sum of everything which others have given me." What mysterious link can exist between these things? Between these things and me?

Venue: 

NOOK - Barcelona, Spain

Dates: 

Monday, February 8, 2016 - 19:30

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Dates: 

Monday, February 8, 2016 - 19:30

Venue: 

  • c/ Nou de la Rambla, 143
    Poble Sec
    Barcelona, Barcelona
    Spain
    41° 22' 22.6812" N, 2° 10' 5.1816" E