As a member of Le Cinématographe, Mire presents, on the occasion of the Animal (s) cycle, two short 16mm films as opening programmes to feature films.
While animals have accompanied the history of cinema since its beginnings, the Animal(s) cycle questions the evolution of animal representations, through films that seek less to use the animal than to make it exist as a subject, carrying an experience and a form of subjectivity that cinema attempts to approach and question.
Below are the dates and programme details.
Each screening will be introduced by a member of MIRE!
opening programme to EO by Jerzy Skolimowski
— Thursday 30/04, 8:45 pm
My Life as a Bee – Robert Schaller
2002 – 16 mm – colour – silent – 6’00
A “fiction” imagined from the perspective of a bee during a spring day in Golden Gate Park. A primitive, handmade camera reveals a world of vibrant, frenetic colours, movements among flowers, and the loss of this bee amid the festivities tied to its survival and the sun.
opening programme to Vedette by Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard
— Sunday 24/05, 8:45 pm
The Cow That Ruminates – Georges Rey
1969 – 16 mm – black & white – silent – 2’45
In a short introduction to his film, which contributed to his international recognition, filmmaker Georges Rey summarised its gesture as follows:
“Before, she ruminated, after, she ruminated. A fixed shot of a three-minute cow ruminating and playing with the filmmaker, and thus with the spectator.”