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- Marie Reinert, an expert in the art of infiltration - a term she used, incidentally, as a title for one of her long-term projects - explores gestures and movement in the workplace, the body as a tool and the economy as a system - these are her raw materials. Here, the space she infiltrates is the informal economy of Kinshasa, examined through the eyes of the artists: Chris Shongo, Jerry Lelo, Francis Longwa, Magloire Mpaka, Olikas Ngongo and Margot Oto, a group which celebrated the occasion by giving itself the name System K, which signifies that everything can be haggled for in Kinshasa. It opens with a telephone, enhanced with an improvised home-made handle which is passed from hand to hand. First off is a breath-taking high-angle shot, followed through by the camera riveted to every single body, merging with their movements, splintering our attention and points of view and recording the logic of their gestures and motion. The rhythm, delegated to these bodies at work, develops randomly with their comings and goings: the jolts of a stonemason's shovel, the spins of a hairdresser cutting away, a travelling shot of a motorbike deliveryman, the ground as seen from shoes being shined and even screens in a cybercafé. An epic immersion into the megalopolis, like a surgeon's knife revealing the entrails and pulse of an organism in perpetual motion; it is as though we are caught up in its lively energy and fluctuating exchanges, like the glimpsed at banknotes that changed hands non-stop. This journey is made possible through this collective, collaborative effort whose initial protocol allows for a network as tightly run as it is unpredictable, and which goes as far as to absorb the work of the film, going back on itself, as its classic credits suggest. A typical day which unfolds like a vast topography of everyday labour as required by Article 15, a made-up article of the constitution of the RDC, referring to resourcefulness.
- A group of people and animals live together on a deserted island, where they work with the relics of a lost world in order to build a new one. Somewhere between ethnography and sci-Fi, Carcasse invites us to inhabit and invent this special landscape alongside them.
- A documentary that investigates experiments into conversing with plant matter, and asks the question whether a cactus could have given crucial evidence in the suspicious death of a reporter investigating the Fukushima meltdown.
- One indigo summer night, in a rather tropical suburban Japan, several isolated people find themselves caught in a game of shadows and lights more or less threatening. Operators dressed in black seem to manipulate them as they abandon themselves to the idea of being puppets. Yet here no ventriloquism, at most a few tears, or a laughter hidden behind a scream, are tearing the silence of the night apart.
- With OLLIN BLOOD, artist duo Elise Florenty and Marcel Türkowsky continue their investigation into our relationship with the non-human. Set against the backdrop of the pandemic, the film tells the story of three friends in Mexico City who find themselves connected with the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán valley, home to the biggest cactus forest in the world. Through a refined work of investigation that brings together elements of history - distant only in appearance - we discover that this valley has been the scene of savage exploitation and colonisation. In a spellbinding blend of documented research and fiction, OLLIN BLOOD unites three continents and different epochs in an attempt to question our paradoxical relationship with nature. Each of the majestic cactuses of the forest thus becomes a symbol of cultural identity and globalised power structures. In a phantasmagorical atmosphere, haunted by contrasts, Ollin Blood takes us into a dream-like state where history and myth blur in a unique quest for knowledge.