Like the waters of the Loire flowing beneath the bridges of Nantes, the Prisme festival always ends up reaching the estuary. Once again this year, a few films are happily escaping to be screened at the Jacques Tati cinema. From a fluttering, colourful bouquet of flowers to the gentleness and generosity of a residency filmed in Saint-Nazaire, this programme will float on the hybrid borders of a strange and somewhat unreal world, between visual, mineral and telluric hypnosis and an intimate, organic ritual.
PROGRAMME
A Shifting Pattern, Isaac Shermann – Fotokem – US – 2024 16mm – 6′
Music credits: Nicole McCabe ….. saxophone Alex Babbitt ………. flute Isaac Sherman …… synthesizers, composition
Please note: This film contains strobing images
“A collected geography of local flowers; appearing, disappearing, reappearing. Afterimage becomes before-image, physiology and pathology at play. An ode to the neighborhood, an entrapment that offers small moments for escape. The will to walk aimlessly is rejuvenated as stasis turns to movement and back again.”
Tooborac, Richard Tuohy et Dianna Barrie- AUS – Nanolab – 2025 – 16mm – 9′
Granite tors scattered over 20 square kilometers around Tooborac in central Victoria dance in ecstatic celebration of their own endurance.
Morphosis, Lichun Tseng & Mick o’Shea – Filmwerkplaats – NL – 2025 – 16 mm – 15′
“A journey in flux—shifting between memory and reality, between past and present—where sound and image move sometimes in parallel, sometimes in cohesion: independent, yet interlaced.
Change unfolds within the process of creation—between us, in us, within this piece—in the continuous, transforming line of morphosis: across time, through time.”
Super, Natural, Kyath Battie – CAN – Niagara Custom Lab – 2025 – 16 mm – 7′
“Vancouver Island, supernatural by construct and memory, is experienced though landscapes represented by colonial icons, mysterious brilliant fountains, and a curious peacock. A tableaux of sorts, each encounter is singular yet united by stunning and devastated beauty.”
Forming en Route, Petra Graf & James Edmonds – FR / DE – Mire, P9, Andec – 2025 – 16mm > digital 35’
“Filmed while on a residency organised by artist run film lab MIRE, Nantes at the estuary town of Saint-Nazaire. As we slowly gathered our impressions, becoming familiar with a new place, developing rolls at the lab along the way, we tried to capture the spirit of the spaces we encountered. The coastal light, the industrial harbor atmosphere and postwar architecture, all framing our view and leading us through our daily work.”