 The documentary
The film sketches the portrait of street artists who have been working in the plaza in front of Beaubourg since the 1970s. It also analyzes the unique role that the “empty square” plays in the life of the neighborhood and includes testimony from Renzo Piano, Beaubourg’s architect.
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The exhibition
The documentary screening will be followed by a guided tour led
by Mrs Fay Lee in French. Many thanks to Fay lee and Dale Shepard for their help.
The toured exhibition (to be confirmed here) will be
Stephen Kelley's "Open Tuning (WaveUp)"
(src: Sean Flinn - The Coast)
Halifax artist Stephen Kelly's kinetic sculpture and sound installation, WaveUp, isn't necessarily about isolation and the loneliness of a remote location, though that mood pervades the experience, just below the surface of the work. Attached to mechanized and levered arms, speakers are mounted to walls and suspended from the ceiling. The arms move and the speakers turn while transmitting electronic sound based on weather conditions and sea state. Kelly's installation is connected by the internet to wave data buoys Fisheries and Oceans Canada floats and maintains on the Atlantic.
WaveUp strikes you with its simple statement about remote connection, the link between the near and the far, the immediate and distant environment. We can be here and there at once. What happens out there affects us in here. Though not the express intention of the artist, you may think about environmental, or ecological, interdependency. The work is fun and visceral. While you listen to the waves in translation, and watch the mechanization mimic nature, you can't help but raise your hand up to just below one speaker, emitting low, rumbling bass notes.
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The Festival
Portraits of Paris features a series of documentaries, with English subtitles
It is put together by the Forum des Images, under
an agreement between the Fondation Alliance Française and the City of Paris
Showings
The Forum of Images
The Forum of Images was founded in 1988 with the goals of building an audiovisual memory of Paris and conserving its history, as well as its architectural, cultural and social evolution.
Today, the Forum’s special collections comprise 5,500 films, of which 4,000 hours of footage are on Paris from 1895 to the present. The films include many different formats, such as documentaries, publicity films and short, medium and full-length dramas.
Having organized festivals, special appearances, discussions, workshops, master classes, cinema courses and various other meetings and gatherings, the Forum of Images itself has also produced more than seven hundred films pertaining to social and urban change.
These have enriched its collection on Paris, as well as its body of amateur films, which are important components of twentieth century memory. Each year, the Forum opens its doors to new, formerly inaccessible collections.
All of this is made possible through a partnership maintained with institutions working for either the production or distribution of cinematic or television work.
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