Mille soleils + As many projectors as I can handle

Mille soleils (45')
Echoing its strong resounding title, this enchanting film by young filmmaker and actress Mati Diop (you might remember her from her role in '35 Shots of Rum' by Claire Denis) burns like 1000 fires?! From the darkness of drifting alcoholics in the night of Dakar, the blue lights of video projectors that pierce through the obscurity, the multi-coloured flashes of light from a deserted nightclub, the red blood of animals, and the blinding white of snow in Alaska, these are the distances in time and space that are put forward in this film. 'Mille soleils' opens and closes in classic western-style with the slow advancement of a Tex Ritter song borrowed from 'High Noon', by Fred Zinnemann. This film is a subtle homage to the incandescent cinematic poem 'Touki Bouki' (1973) by Diop's uncle Djibril Diop Mambety. Neither a short nor a full-length film, swings freely between documentary and fiction. 'Mille soleils' is a film about the magic of cinema and its power to fascinate, but it is also about the fragility of film?: the fragility of memory, of passing time, and of those who leave and those who stay. Grand prize winner at the International Film Festival 2013 FID Marseille.

As many projectors as I can handle (35')
In the immediate enchantment of the luminous film 'Mille soleils’, Floris Vanhoof lights up his ten suns (a collection of 16mm projectors dispersed throughout Studio 4). The performance is an intense physical performance by the young filmmaker and musician, who is the sole master aboard this giant steam liner, passing without stoping from the verticality of the masts to the horizontality of the bridge to throw his images. Tamed rays of light accompany echoing airwaves. A mosaic of images, a sound bath of audio, a visual fireworks display !

Flagey, Filmer A Tout Prix, Gsara