As part of the Totalitarianisms film series at Le Cinématographe, Mire contributed to the rich programme by proposing the film in 9 chapters film Autrement, la Molussie in the presence of filmmaker Nicolas Rey, as well as films at the start of screenings, reviving the tradition of pre-programmes.
Below are the dates and details of the programme.
Each screening will be presented by one of your favourite Mire members!
Autrement, la Molussie, Nicolas Rey
France – 2012 – 81 minutes – 16 mm
A film in nine chapters, shown in random order and based on fragments from the novel Günther Anders wrote between 1932 and 1936 : “The Molussian Catacomb”. Prisoners sitting in the pits of an imaginary fascist state, Molussia,transmit one another stories about the outside world, as so many philosophical fables.
> followed by a discussion with filmmaker Nicolas Rey
Rat Life and Diet in North America, Joyce Wieland
Canada – 1969 – 16 min – 16 mm
Beneath a layer of humour lies a powerful political film, an ode to rebellion where cats play the role of jailers and rats (actually gerbils!) play the rebels. Somewhere between anthropomorphic fiction and animal documentary.
> pre programme of Chicken Run, Peter Lord et Nick Park
– – Sunday 15/02, 20:30
Avante, Jean-Michel Bouhours
France – 2024 – 4 min – NUM
Avante was the name of a school textbook from triumphant Franco’s Spain in the early 50s. On every page were instilled traditional Catholic teaching and authoritarian, reactionary ideological discourse. Drawing on these four volumes transformed into palimpsests meant engaging in a trial of strength to oppose the text with the presence of a foreign figure, a playful dance, and then rendering the ideological content illegible.
> pre programme of Lord of the Flies, Peter Brook
– – tuesday 10/03, 20:30
Las mujeres de Pinochet, Eduardo Menz
Canada – 2004 – 12 min – VOSTF – NUM
In this experimental short, the viewer is forced to role-play through the repeated employment and alteration of the text, sound and image until his or her expectations have been truthfully realized. The video examines class structure, the meaning of beauty and forgotten history through two very different but significant women during Pinochet’s brutal regime of the late 1980’s.
> pre-programme of El Boton de nacar), Patricio Guzmán
– – sunday 29/03, 20:30