Gliding towards the wave

Screening - Zones Portuaire, Saint-Nazaire

At the invitation of  Zones Portuaires festival, Mire is happy to present a short program of experimental films formally flirting with this year’s thematic : surfing !

The playful learning of gliding, the beach and its habits, entering the water, the infinite ocean, the patient await, the immense blue, the wave… Welcome to a world of sensations where light, color, rhythm and contemplation will gently guide you inside the barrel !

PROGRAM (env. 56min) :

DRAG by Bea HAUT
2017/ 16mm / 5′

A short lesson in urban couch-surfing.

 

 

COPACABANA BEACH by Vivian OSTROVSKY

1983 / 16mm / 10′

Daily scenes of Copacabana Beach. Looks as a culture and the quest of shape.

 

 

GULLS AND BUOYS by Robert BREER
1972/ 16mm / 6′

Animation of ordinary elements seen and heard by the seashore.

 

 

LA PLAGE de Patrick BOKANOWSKI
1991/ 16mm / 14′

Shadows and silhouettes of swimmers emerging from the lights and colors of a beach.

 

 

 

VAGUES A COLLIOURE de Jean-Michel BOUHOURS
1991/ 16mm / 6′

On the art of taking the plunge !

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SWIMMER de Michael Mazière
1987 / 16mm / 6′

How simple and sweet it is to swim !

 

 

SOUND OVER WATER de Mary Helena Clark
2009/ 16mm / 6′

An infinite and blue scope like the ocean and the anticipation of the wave ?

 

 

WAVE de Pedro Paiva & João Maria Gusmão
2011 / 16mm / 3′

In slow-motion , a wave crashes into a rock.

 

 

 

+++ a cult surprise to wrap up the program, to render porous the frontiers between sky and sea and perhaps surf eternally inside the wave !

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