Pierre Villemin: Three short films, 2005-2017

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For its 30 year anniversary, Saarlandisches Filmbüro invites Pierre Villemin to a meeting with the public, and to show a panorama of his work from 2005 till 2017 with three short films between documentaries and experimental movies.

Projection followed by a Q&AProgramme:- Mémoire Carbone (2005, 20') (Mention of Youth Jury, Festival of short movies, Clermont-Ferrand, 2006)April 2004. Coal mining in Lorraine (France) became history, which led to the closing down of its last mine shaft, at a place known as  'La Houve'  near Creutzwald,  Moselle.This film is the result of a poetic reading  exploring the dividing line between perception and reality. This is a ghostly vision, a  metaphor of the disappearance of the last pit workers. A sensorial experience which invites the viewer to witness a story coming to an end.

- Les Saisons (2008, 12') (co-réal. Jean Villemin, exhibition in Berlin, Deutschland, Saarlandishen Galerie, and in Metz, France, Musées de la Cour d'or, 2008)In Berlin, a poetic wandering on Theodor Fontane's tracks. Realized within the framework of a stock grant  of the General Council of the Moselle.

- Du côté de la réalité immédiate (2017, 40') (official selection festival Côté Court Pantin 2017)Extracts of texts, conferences, interviews, speech… this movie "fit of bad temper" expresses a certain form of our society became complex, between false technological progress, to propaganda, to addiction, to marketing and to a surge… And a conclusion as a fiction of the science towards a better world …

BiographyPierre Villemin teaches video at the Art school in Metz Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Lorraine.Since 1999 he is interested by reports between text/voice/images.Worked as cameraman for documentaries for french TV. Between 2002 and 2014, he made with his brother Jean Villemin, poetic videos. Since 2016 he is working on personal experimental documentaries.Website : https://pierrevillemin.wordpress.com/

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Du côté de la réalité immédiate (Pierre Villemin, 2017)
Du côté de la réalité immédiate (Pierre Villemin, 2017)

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Cinema Acht und Halb - Sarrebrück, Germany

Dates: 

Wednesday, October 4, 2017 - 20:00 to Thursday, October 5, 2017 - 19:55

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Dates: 

Wednesday, October 4, 2017 - 20:00 to Thursday, October 5, 2017 - 19:55
  • 19, Nauwieserstrasse
    Sarrebrück
    Germany
    49° 14' 9.4704" N, 7° 0' 2.9124" E