As part of the Japan Cuts 2015 Festival.

Avant-garde film and video practice emerges from vibrant cultures of experimentation and collaboration. This program represents work produced around and selected by two exemplary organizations: the New York-based Mono No Aware, and Tokyo-based [+] (Plus). Some of the featured films and videos emphasize elements of collaboration and transnational exchange, and influence between artists, spaces and technologies in Japan and the U.S. Juxtaposing works by artists loosely associated with the creative networks of Mono No Aware and [+] produces a visually and aurally stimulating 90+ minutes of unexpected connections and discoveries. Organized by Japan Society, Steve Cossman of Mono No Aware and Takashi Makino of [+].

This 10th edition of Mex-Parismental is an opportunity to sublimate the course that helped forge the unique and strong identity of our event. Organized for creators whose most varied achievements are offered unrestrained to curious spectators, eager for new images with refreshing perspectives, stories of today, the revisited past, renewed themes, unseens universes.

¡Vamos! Mex-Parismental and Collectif Jeune Cinema have an appointment with you next Thursday, June 18 at the Cinema La CLef to watch this cinematographic creation and to let it go, be surprised, take on unmarked trails with us to watch, share, meet, go towards the unknown, stimulating and invigorating.

Barbara Hammer (b. 1939) has been making groundbreaking films for more than forty years. Often hailed as the creator of the queer cinema genre, and committed to the portrayal of the untold histories of women, Hammer has presented retrospectives of her work internationally, most recently at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and the Toronto International Film Festival.