Screening and discussion
About the film entitled "Kindertotenlieder"
14 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022
The event is over
"It is very moving to discover the films of the Mohamed Collective. These children of immigrants, who collected pieces of film roll in the early 1980s and used their experience to tell the story of what they saw, are my direct cinema parents. Their images stammer, but they have the grace of primal movements. There is a rightness in these films, in spite of their fragility, that makes them precious and a foundation for the films of filmmakers who came after them, notably Ladj Ly, and my own." Alice Diop
Projected films:
Kader Attia, Réfléchir la mémoire (Reflecting memory, France, 2016, 48 min)
This cinematographic poem presents interviews with surgeons, neurologists and psychoanalysts on the "phantom limb" phenomenon, the sensation that a missing part of the body is still present, following a physical amputation and a pseudo-hallucination.
Virgil Vernier, Kindertotenlieder (France, 2021, 27 min)
Based on the archives of television news, a review of the riots in France in 2005, following the death of two youths who were being chased by the police.
Mohamed Collective, Ils ont tué Kader (They Killed Kader, France, 1980, 30 min)
Following the death of a youth from Vitry, who was killed by the caretaker of a building, the media came to the suburb to do a report and get images from the Collective. A film that asks many questions about the role of the media in the suburbs, and the necessity of producing one's own images.
Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Europa 2005 - 27 octobre (Europa 2005 – 27 October, France, 2006, 12 min)
On 27 October 2005, in Clichy-sous-Bois, three terrified young boys pursued by the police took refuge inside the forbidden zone of an electric transformer; two would die, burned alive, Bouna and Zyed.
Session followed by an encounter with Alice Diop and Virgil Vernier, moderated by Alice Leroy, a critic with Cahiers du cinéma
Where
Cinema 1, level 1
When
14 Feb 2022
Virgil Vernier, Kindertotenlieder
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*Alice Diop